12 Gallagher Lane

12 Gallagher Lane sophomore exhibition: “Spring Awakenings”

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:24:30 +0000

12 Gallagher Lane is announcing its sophomore exhibition featuring celebrated and internationally renowned artist Hunt Slonem’s show entitled, “Spring Awakenings,” a vibrant, cheerful and colorful welcome to all that Spring awakens in all of us. This newly renovated 3,300 square-foot gallery is split between a grand 2,500-foot first floor, and an 800 square-foot private loft area; and is located in the emerging Art District or Gallery Row, commonly known as the Moscone West and Yerba Buena Gardens district in downtown San Francisco. 12 Gallagher Lane is Slonem’s only permanent exhibition on the West Coast.

With plantation shutters and lively colors, the exterior of 12 Gallagher Lane is reminiscent of Slonem’s two restored plantation homes in Louisiana – Albania and Lakeside; where he resides when not at his loft in Manhattan. The interior of the gallery is also filled with colorful walls personally chosen by the artist to playfully accentuate his work.

US Foundation Brings Hunt Slonem to Bulgaria…

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:12:53 +0000

Famous American painter and world-renowned master of pop art, Hunt Slonem, personally opened two exhibits in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia Thursday and Friday.

Slonem’s visit to Sofia has been anticipated by Bulgarian art-lovers for quite a while and has been in the works for several years now. It was finally realized on April 28 and 29 through the collaboration of the American Foundation for Bulgaria, and personally one of its founders and Executive Director, Teodor Vasilev, who accompanied Slonem to Sofia, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, and the newly inaugurated (December, 2009) Sofia Museum Gallery of Modern Art.

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12 Gallagher Lane appears in Daily Candy “Who, What, Wed”…

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:22:27 +0000

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The new bi-level Hunt Slonem gallery, 12 Gallagher Lane, is a perfect place for a smaller party (150 guests max). The NYC artist’s colorful paintings set a dramatic backdrop for any reception. …See The Photos @ www.dailycandy.com

Hunt Slonem in Interview Magazine

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:18:00 +0000

“I was looking for a new studio for three and a half years before I moved into this one in Hell’s Kitchen last December. The studio is on the fourth floor, in a big loft that used to be offices for Moviola. The space is divided into a number of small rooms, all of which I painted in old Louisiana plantation-house colors. I have the yellow conference room, where I keep my orchids and hang little wet paintings. The teal room is another meeting room where I sometimes meditate; it’s turning into the Lincoln room, because I paint him a lot. I paint in the large white studio where all my birds are. I have about 25 birds. Then there’s the coral-colored bunny room, and the room we call Central America, which is painted mango and houses my butterfly collection and the bowls of Siamese fighting fish. This new studio is one-third smaller than my old one, so I had to give away 10 sofas. Because there were things I literally couldn’t get into the building, I saw it as a chance to start over. I’ve lived in New York since 1973, and I’ve had only three studios in these years. I usually decorate eclectically, on a large scale, but this time I decided to do it up like a Victorian house.” -HUNT SLONEM….See The Photos @ www.interviewmagazine.com

Hunt Slonem & 12 Gallagher Lane appear in SFiS March 2010…

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:10:01 +0000

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Hunt Slonem’s colorful new book “The Worlds of Hunt Slonem” available for pre-order through Vendome Press…

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:01:42 +0000

Profuse. Profound. Transcendent. Jubilant. In his life as in his art, Hunt Slonem is all of these things and more. He is an inveterate collector of the inanimate (chandeliers, furniture, candlesticks) and animate (a menagerie of exotic birds), and his art, too, is accumulative; a governing principle of his painting and sculpture is multiplicity—of subject and of pattern.

In The Worlds of Hunt Slonem author Dominique Nahas delves deep beneath the decorative surface of Slonem’s work to reveal the fascinating sources of and influences on his art. The chapter, “Set Out on a Journey,” examines the places in which he lived and worked in his youth, from his boyhood in Hawaii to a formative sojourn in Nicaragua as a teenager to his training at Tulane University, and how his early experiences impacted his development as an artist. “Multiplicity,” presents a visual lexicon of the innumerable creatures he has celebrated over and over in his paintings, starting with his early Broadway Bug Series (c. 1974), and including rabbits, ocelots, monkeys, butterflies, moths, frogs, turtles, fish, and insects, as well as all manner of birds: cockatoos, toucans, Cordon Bleu finches, macaws, magpies, mynahs, eagles, and rhinoceros hornbills. In “Let There Be Light,” Nahas shows how Slonem works with and invokes light in his art, using techniques that allow light to refract, multiply, and radiate, exhilarating the senses. “The Grid: Structure as Image” focuses on his painting techniques and his use of grids, repetitive patterning, and multiples as an organizing principle of expressivity. The last chapter, “Saints, Boddhisatvas, and the Celebrated,” is devoted to his portraits, including icons of the church (St. Francis), Hollywood (Valentino, Bette Davis, et al.), and Washington (Abraham Lincoln).

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Hunt Slonem attends NYC Oscar Party at The New York Palace Hotel…

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:58:05 +0000

AMPAS NY Program Director Patrick Harrison, actress Sylvia Miles and Hunt Slonem attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences New York Oscar night party at GILT at The New York Palace Hotel on March 7, 2010 in New York City. …Read the Full Article @ life.com

Hunt Slonem Studio Visit to kick-off NY AUTO Show Gala Preview to Benefit East Side House Settlement…

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:55:51 +0000

NEW YORK-FEBRUARY 24: Cocktail Party to Celebrate the Benefit Committee of The East Side House Settlement: Gala Preview of The 2010 New York International Auto Show on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at HUNT … Read the Full Article

New York Magazine: Living With a Thousand Best Friends

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:50:54 +0000

Hunt Slonem’s Hell’s Kitchen habitat is 15,000 square feet. Cramped New Yorkers accustomed to tiny spaces might get dizzy at the prospect of filling that much openness, but Slonem, an artist and lifelong accumulator, had the opposite problem: He was moving from a Tenth Street studio that was a mind-boggling 40,000 square feet, divided into 89 rooms. “I had to give away 27 sofas,” he says wistfully. “I lost a thousand things in the moving process! I was beside myself.” ……Read Full Article @ nymag.com

San Francisco Chronicle: Hunt Slonem Gallery a bright addition to SoMa

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:42:19 +0000

That New York artist Hunt Slonem chose to open an art gallery in San Francisco is the latest signal of a burgeoning arts district surrounding Yerba Buena Gardens and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Even before the park and museum were built, the neighborhood attracted artists who could afford its cheap rents. The late graffiti artist Keith Haring left behind an unsung but valuable mural in the same 3,300-square-foot, two-story building that now serendipitously houses 12 Gallagher Lane, A Hunt Slonem Gallery. …….Read Full Article @ SFGate.com