This Summer, we invite you into the world of Mally Khorasantchi, who has established herself as an artist whose abstract visual language has been featured in more than a dozen solo shows here in Florida, New York, and her native Germany. Born in Post-Second World War Düsseldorf, Khorasantchi came of age — and became an artist — in a country deep in turmoil and historical reckoning, re-imagining itself and its place in the world following the horrors of its immediate past. Now based in Florida for more than three decades, Khorasantchi tries in her colorful and complex compositions to reconcile the stoic nature of her German upbringing with a cheery dose of American optimism. Indeed, filled with earthly creatures and imbued with the contrastive themes of order versus chaos, Khorasantchi’s vibrant paintings examine the interrelationships between us and the co-inhabitants of the world around us.

A perennial audience favorite, Hunt Slonem is known as the painter of bunnies, but his body of work includes so much more. Slonem’s heavily-impastoed, brightly-colored paintings have delighted visitors across the world — and to our Museum — for decades. In fact, in our collection alone, we hold an incredible 40 paintings by Slonem, each of which exemplifies the breadth of his career while also underlining the immediate recognizability of his inimitable style. This buoyant Summer exhibition promises a visual Neo-Expressionist feast like no other and embraces the familiar (yes, there will be bunnies!) alongside the lesser known sides of Slonem’s oeuvre, including portraits of celebrities, presidents, and the artists’ acquaintances as well as a few surprises like Slonem’s religious iconography dating back as early as the 1970s. Literary, political, and zoological, and everything in between, Slonem’s cast of characters and tactile paintings promise a Summer of fun in our galleries.