AD Hunt
AD Hunt was born in Nova Scotia, and completed his BFA at NSCAD in Halifax. In 2007, he received an MFA from State University of New York at Purchase College. Hunt now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and serves as a professor of Drawing and Colour & Design at LIM College in Manhattan.
I combine fragments of imagery, line and color to create highly personal and symbolic narratives. Fusing representational, and often figurative, elements with raw colorful daubs of paint, I depict troubling scenarios and awkward themes in a comical style. Humor and dread play a major role in my work. I find extreme emotions compelling; my emotional life is punctuated by intense feelings, dark or light, hilarious or tragic. I re-create these tensions in my paintings and embellish the subject matter to make a spectacle out of everyday phenomena.