Hunt Slonem

Book Description: np, np. 1991., Survey catalog. Color and black and white. Wrappers. Staple bound. Wash paintings of birds overlaid with a latticework of lines. Design: Trey Speegle. Text: John Ashbery, Tama Janowitz and Iris Owens. Very good condition. 11 x 8.25". Unpaginated. "Hunt Slonem's recent paintings celebrate not only the exotic birds he collects by the dozens, but also the cages in which they seemingly thrive in his downtown New York studio. Have the cages invaded the birds or vice versa? There is no easy answer: as often as the grid of bars over brilliant, insubstantial swatches of plumes suggests a prison, so it can serve equally as a foil to the otherwise hard-to-pin-down traces of color on the move that the birds are.".