HUNTER POTTER

HUNTER POTTER

Chasing Rabbits, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on drop cloth

60 x 72 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Black River Swamp, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on drop cloth

72 x 96 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Is This Love?, 2020

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

72 x 96 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Sunshine Daydream, 2020

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

66 x 66 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Girl’s Night Out, 2020

Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas

72 x 72 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Disco Inferno, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, collage, and spray paint on canvas

 72 x 84 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Do Your Best and Caulk the Rest, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas

60 x 72 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Fool in the Rain, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas

50 x 80 cm

HUNTER POTTER

How the Mighty Have Fallen, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, collage, and spray paint on canvas

36 x 48 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Onward and Upward, 2021

Acrylic, oil stick, and collage on canvas wrapped panel

24 x 84 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Raise Hell Praise Dale, 2020

Acrylic, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas

72 x 80 cm

HUNTER POTTER

Designated Driver, 2020

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

72 x 72

BIO

Hunter Potter was born in 1990 in Syracuse, NY, and studied studio art at the University of Vermont where he graduated in 2013. He moved to New York City in 2015 and spent time sign painting, studio assisting, and art handling while finding his way to becoming a full-time artist. Now focused solely on his own practice, Potter maintains a studio in Brooklyn, New York. Hunter Potter uses a bold color palette and whimsical, geometric figures inspired by American folklore to create poppy paintings that celebrate the minutiae of daily life on a monumental scale. 

 

Potter’s figures often feature society’s underdogs; the criminals, fighters, and runaways he associates his work with are similar to characters in novels by John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Larry McMurtry, whose writing influences Potter’s work. Although he continues to create more intimate work, the artist’s enthusiasm for large scale works began when he was apprenticed to paint billboards in New York. Potter was the recipient of the Roger Smith Artist Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018 and was awarded residencies in London at the Plop Residency and The Fores Project.

 

 

CV

Hunter Potter (b.1990, Syracuse, NY)

Lives in Brooklyn, New York

 

EDUCATION

2013

BA in Fine Art, University of Vermont (US)

 

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2021

Gimme Shelter. Ross+Kramer Gallery, East Hampton (NY)

I’ll Wake Up Older. Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)

2020

I Ain’t Half The Man I Wanted To Be. Public Gallery, London (UK)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

My Sweet Doppelgänger. Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)

The Storage. L21 Gallery, ARCO Madrid, Marid (ES)

No Body Like This Body. Marquee Projects, Bellport (NY)

The Artist Is Online. Konig Galerie, Berlin (DE)

Can’t Wait to Meet You. Primary Projects, Miami (FL)

Pictures From The Other Side. Collaborations, Copenhagen (DK)

2020

Then & Now. Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens (GR)

Don’tGiveADamns. Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam (NL)

Black And White Vs. Color. Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)

When Sh*t Hits The Fan. Guts Gallery, London (UK)

2019

A Mundane Muse. Nonfinito Gallery, New York (NY)

Made In Paint. Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin (NY)

Greener. Superchief Gallery, Queens (NY)

 

RESIDENCIES

2020

The Fores Project. London (UK)

2019

PLOP Residency. London (UK)