"Abstract art is music for the eyes."

- David Michael Slonim

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Upcoming Solo Exhibition:

David Michael Slonim CONSTELLATION

March 2025

Artist's Reception Thursday March 6

Bonner David Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

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NEW YORK | Bonner David Galleries

SCOTTSDALE | Bonner David Galleries

DENVER | Rose Fredrick Project Space

In the tradition of 20th century painting icons like Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, and Pablo Picasso, David Michael Slonim explores the expressive potential of abstract line, color, and texture.

He notes that his artistic heroes were themselves drawing on the rich history of abstraction as a form of expression throughout human history. "From ancient cave paintings to the art of the Egyptians, Greeks, Japanese, Chinese, Africans, Celts, Native Americans, and more," Slonim says, "art of every culture has expressed the belief that there is more to life than meets the eye. This is one reason the art of every culture includes examples of abstraction." Humor, pathos, and spirituality often coexist in his paintings, inviting the viewer to experience layered responses which may vary over time.

Like music, his paintings are meant to refresh the mind and soul. Slonim says, "Abstract art is music for the eyes."

His first successes in the art world came in 1998 as a landscape painter, with subsequent gallery and museum exhibitions at Overland Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; The Wickenburg Art Museum, Wickenburg, AZ; Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, IN; and the C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT. Turning to abstraction in 2014, he has exhibited with galleries in New York, Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Scottsdale, Jackson Hole, and The Hamptons, with solo museum exhibitions at Indiana University East and Richmond Art Museum. Slonim is also an award-winning children's author/illustrator, recognized for excellence by the NY times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon Editors, and NY Society of Illustrators. He and his wife Bonnie have four adult children and four grandchildren.

DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM

DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM