Oh WOW Thrigh SEptember 28th, 2026, ~Bubbies Take Manhattan: One Space Art Tribeca presents Hunt Slonem's Fantastical World!

If you're in  Manhattan stop by the  One Space open Tribeca ! This should be the most fun for all. 

Slomen's artwork energizes the atmosphere with creativity.  

  

 

 Bunnies Take Manhattan: One Art Space Tribeca Presents Hunt Slonem’s Fantastical World

Hunt Slonem Blue Hutch (2025) Oil on Wood, 20” x 24” (Image Credit: Hunt Slonem)

Through the Looking Glass Puts the Celebrated Artist’s
 Rabbits, Butterflies, Color and Diamond Dust Center Stage

Hunt Slonem’s unmistakable universe of rabbits, butterflies, birds and brilliant color arrives at One Art Space in Tribeca this summer with “Through the Looking Glass,” an exhibition bringing together works that capture the repetition, movement and fascination with nature that have become signatures of the celebrated American neo-expressionist artist.

The exhibition is on view from Friday, August 21^st through Monday, September 28^th, 2026 with an opening reception in early September, at One Art Space. The exhibition, Hunt Slonem’s first New York City exhibition in five years, moves between scale and intimacy, from expansive canvases populated by Slonem’s recurring natural motifs to jewel-like paintings framed almost as treasured objects. At its center is “Pink Ascension” (2021), a monumental 77-by-101-inch oil on canvas in which butterflies drift across a luminous pink field, transforming one of Slonem’s most enduring subjects into an enveloping study of rhythm, repetition and movement.

At the other end of the scale is “Blue Hutch” (2025), a 20-by-24-inch oil on wood depicting a gathering of Slonem’s instantly recognizable rabbits against a vivid blue ground. Presented within an ornate frame, the work captures the playful tension that runs throughout Slonem’s practice: spontaneous brushwork and seemingly simple subjects placed within compositions that feel at once contemporary, decorative and almost devotional.

Hunt Slonem Pink Ascension (2021) Oil on Canvas, 77” x 101” (Image Credit: Hunt Slonem)

Those two works establish the poles of a broader exhibition that ranges across Slonem’s visual vocabulary. Butterflies emerge repeatedly in works including “Red Sea Migration III” (2026), “Silver Ascension Travel Tomorrow” (2022) and “White Ascension (August Moon)” (2026), while his celebrated rabbits multiply across canvases and smaller works such as “Blue Rhapsody Diamond Dust” (2023), “Totem Fluffle” (2026) and “Pink Pair” (2026). The presentation also extends beyond painting to include Slonem’s sculptural work, reflecting the breadth of a practice in which familiar forms are continually revisited through changes in scale, material, color and surface.

Curator and Co-Owner of One Art Space, MaryAnn Giella McCulloh commented on the new exhibition, “There is something almost jewel-like about Hunt Slonem’s artistry - the color, texture, and repetition, from his bunnies to his butterflies and beyond, draw you in. Beneath that beauty lies a deeper visual language, where nature, imagination, color, and mystery become one. Through the Looking Glass is an invitation into his extraordinary world”

The repetition is fundamental to Slonem’s work. Inspired by nature and by the exotic birds with which he surrounds himself, the artist has spent decades returning to rabbits, butterflies and tropical birds, creating an immediately identifiable visual language characterized by textural brushwork, saturated color and repeated forms. Slonem has described his fascination with the patterns found throughout nature, from feathers and leaves to blades of grass as central to that approach.

Artist, Hunt Slonem said of new exhibition Through the Looking Glass, “A dream of what I see through the looking glass, where my creatures go, where we cannot see them, following their wonder — wonderland and inspiration, the source of all my creativity. A joyous venture. ”

Hunt Slonem Fiona Ireland (2025) Oil on Wood 10” x 8” 
(Framed Height: 16.5” x 14.5”) (Image Credit: Hunt Slonem)

Hunt Slonem Rafflesia (2023) Glass 10.5” x 6” x 5” (Image Credit: Hunt Slonem)

“Through the Looking Glass” by Hunt Slonem is curated by MaryAnn Giella McCulloh and presented at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street in Tribeca. The exhibition is on view from Friday, August 21^st through Monday, September 28^th, 2026.

Photo credits: Hunt Slonem, One Art Space

About Hunt Slonem:
Hunt Slonem is an American neo-expressionist artist recognized for his paintings of rabbits, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as sculpture and his restoration of historic properties. Inspired by nature and the exotic birds with which he lives and works, Slonem has developed a distinctive visual language built around repetition, vivid color and expressive brushwork. His work is represented in the permanent collections of approximately 250 museums worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joan Miró Foundation and New Orleans Museum of Art.

For more information, please visit: www.huntslonem.com
IG: @huntslonem

About One Art Space:
One Art Space opened in May 2011 and for more than 16 years has been a cultural destination in the heart of Tribeca, presenting museum‑caliber exhibitions by established and emerging artists from New York and internationally. Led by co‑owners and women gallerists MaryAnn Giella McCulloh and Mei Fung, the gallery blends art and curatorial skill with business expertise. Located at 23 Warren Street in New York City, the gallery occupies a versatile ground‑level space with a glass façade, providing a perfect backdrop for both the artwork and the artist to shine.

 

MaryAnn’s background in creativity stems from her father, Joe Giella, a renowned Batman illustrator hired by Stan Lee, whose artwork was featured on two USPS stamps issued in 2006 as part of the DC Comics Superheroes release (The Green Lantern and The Flash).

 

Recent projects include sold out curated presentation of Shepard Fairey  at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, as well as exhibitions featuring Al Diaz (SAMO©), Chuck Connelly, Andrew Salgado, and Purvis Young, presented during 150 years of Black History Month.

 

For more than a decade, One Art Space has championed women artists through its annual Women’s History Month exhibitions and major past and recent collaborations with NAWA (National Association of Women Artists).

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Hi the Whitney Museum Exhibition~ The Lost World of Minnie Evans~ Opens August 22, 2026. see details below

 

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PRESENTS THE FIRST MAJOR SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF MINNIE EVANS IN MORE THAN FIVE DECADES Marking fifty years since the Whitney debuted the artist's first museum solo exhibition, this landmark survey celebrates the visionary work of one of America's most revered self-taught artists. — The Whitney Museum of American Art presents The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, opening August 22, 2026, just over fifty years after the Whitney organized Evans's groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975. The exhibition reintroduces audiences to one of the most extraordinary and original artistic voices in twentieth-century America.  Minnie Evans began making art in her early forties and spent the following four decades creating radiant drawings, paintings, and collages inspired by dreams, visions, spiritual revelation, mythology, popular culture, and the natural world. Guided by a profound religious faith and a vivid inner life, Evans transformed flowers, birds, angels, and human faces into intricate compositions that blur the boundaries between the earthly and the divine. She described these visionary works as portals into a Biblical Eden she called the "lost world."  Bringing together works created between 1935 and 1981 in Wilmington, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, the exhibition reveals the artist's remarkable ability to envision harmony and transcendence amid a world of social and racial tensions. Through densely layered imagery, luminous color, and recurring spiritual motifs, Evans created a body of work that remains as relevant and resonant today as when it was first made.  The exhibition arrives at a moment of renewed interest in Evans's work. While her drawings and paintings have appeared in influential exhibitions such as The Milk of Dreams at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2022) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Evans has not been the subject of a major solo museum presentation since the 1990s. This landmark exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the full breadth of her artistic vision and legacy.  “Evans is part of a long tradition of American artists who found sacred meaning in the natural world,” said Barbara Haskell, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Her decades of working at the Airlie Gardens gave her a profoundly personal relationship to nature. In filtering her experience of the gardens through dreams and visions that resonated with her inner life, fears, and religious faith, she created images of a lost paradise whose abundance can feel simultaneously ecstatic and claustrophobic.”   "The Whitney’s 1975 exhibition played a transformative role in introducing Evans's work to museum audiences in New York and beyond,” said Kim Conaty, the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney. “Fifty years later, we’re thrilled to train our focus once again on this exceptional artist, whose exquisite works offer a powerful lens through which to examine American history, spirituality, creativity, and resilience.”    The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans returns the artist to the institution where a historic milestone began and reflects the Whitney's ongoing commitment to expanding the story of American art by highlighting artists whose contributions have historically been overlooked. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary range of creative expression, foregrounding the achievements of a Black woman artist working independently in the American South during much of the twentieth century.   The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.  PRESS CONTACT For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact: Cree Solomon-Bonhomme, Publicist    Whitney Museum of American Art   (212)-671-1845 Cree_Solomon@whitney.org   Whitney Press Office whitney.org/press (212) 570-3633 pressoffice@whitney.org EXHIBITION SUPPORT Major support for The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is provided by the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund and the Kapadia Equity Fund. ABOUT THE WHITNEY The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today. Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website. VISITOR INFORMATION The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Public hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 am–6 pm; Friday, 10:30 am–10 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am–6 pm. Closed Tuesday. Visitors twenty-five years and under and Whitney members: FREE. The Museum offers FREE admission and special programming for visitors of all ages every Friday evening from 5–10 pm and on the second Sunday of every month.

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 whitney.org                                Discover the Whitney’s audio guides and accessible content on Bloomberg Connects.  Update your preferences to change the types of emails you receive from the Whitney. Forward this email to a friend. Unsubscribe from all Whitney emails. Image credit: Minnie Evans, Untitled (Three Figures and Angels Collage), 1961–1967. Oil, crayon, and pencil on paper and canvas, 14 × 19 in. (35.56 × 48.26 cm). Collection of John Jerit. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  Minnie Evans, Untitled (The Lions of Judah Collage), 1968. Oil and crayon on paper and board, 19 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (49.53 × 59.69 cm). Collection of Christian Daniel. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  #thewhitneymuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunfantasy #artfunnow#artfun

l"Space Gallery has extened the Leonora Carrington ~Shape of Dreams~ exhibit till Friday August 14, 2026 by popular demand

 The works see below are worth the trip to NYC. The exhibition  received good press sse below. 

LEONORA CARRINGTON    Shape of Dreams  EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL Friday August 14th, 2026 Shape of Dreams has been extended through August 14th!  Please note the schedule for the remaining time of the exhibition: July: Tuesdays to Saturdays from 11 - 6 pm August: Tuesdays to Fridays 11 - 6 pm    The Tarot Booth is currently operating  Tuesday - Friday from 4 -  6 pm, Saturdays from 12 - 5 pm.  We encourage you to plan your visit accordingly so you can experience this one-of-a-kind installation before the exhibition closes. We look forward to welcoming you! *A special edition Tarot Deck available to purchase upon availability Press Artnet News Art Daily Colossal Galerie Magazine My Modern Met The Brooklyn Rail Tussle Magazine Urgent Matter USA Art News "This is one of the most important exhibitions on view in New York right now that all art lovers must   visit, especially if you fancy yourself an enthusiast of Carrington, Surrealism, modernist sculpture, and   the more ethereal sides of life."  — Liam Otero, @artstigator "The sculptures radiate with a singular sense of magic, tugging at our subconscious with their bizarre   mysticism."  —  Eva Baron,  My Modern Met "These works feel thousands of years old, as if they were dug up from an archaeological site rather   than  cast in the 21st century."  — Laura Horne, Tussle Magazine "Surreal figures step from Leonora Carrington's paintings into 'Shape of Dreams.'"  — Kate Mothes, Colossal Magazine "An ambitious exhibition... There is, at minimum, art-historical significance to be espied in the show." — Ekin Erkan,  The Brooklyn Rail Copyright © L'SPACE, All rights reserved. 524 w 19th st, New York, Chelsea 10011, USA #leonoracarringtonl'space#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com #sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunfantasy#artfunsurreal#artfuncreate