Bayous and Ghosts--Work by Margaret Evangeline and Hunt Slolem

Bayous and Ghosts: Work by Margaret Evangeline and Hunt Slonem

January 12 - February 18, 2012

This exhibition features work by internationally recognized artists and friends Margaret Evangeline and Hunt Slonem. With ties to the American South, both artists are inspired by romantic aesthetics that originate particularly in Louisiana and play into the larger history of the United States. Their shared vision as artists and friends dovetail into their evocative and painterly work.

Margaret Evangeline is a New York based, Louisiana born painter who experiments with resistant materials. Fluctuating between creating works with aluminum punctured with bullet holes and heavily worked oil on canvas paintings, she is often inspired by beloved authors of the South coupled with an interest in psychic and social systems. She received both her BFA and MFA from University of New Orleans. Evangeline is the recipient of awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001.Her work has been included in exhibitions at such notable museums as The Palm Beach ICA, The Hafnarborg Art Museum outside Reykjavik, Iceland, the Taipei Museum in Taiwan, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work is frequently written about in The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, The Chicago Tribune, Architectural Digest, among other publications.

Hunt Slonem is a New York and Louisiana based artist who fascination with exotica and spirituality pervades his work. Inspired by various legends of history, animals, objects d'art and Victorian gothic, often his paintings are inscribed with ghosts overlaid on existing images. He received his BFA from Tulane University in Louisiana and studied painting at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Since 1977, Slonem has had over 150 solo exhibitions. Over 75 museums internationally include his work in their collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum, both in New York. His artwork as well as his homes have been featured in multiple publications including the New York Times, Art in America, Elle Magazine, New York Post and Vanity Fair to name a few. Slonem divides his time between Louisiana where he owns two plantation homes on the historic register, Albania in St. Mary's Parish and Lakeside in Pointe Coupee; and New York City where he has lived and worked since 1973.