Gawker Artists is pleased to announce the opening of “Timeless, Placeless,” a solo show of paintings by Malado Baldwin at Gawker Media’s NYC headquarters.
“Timeless, Placeless” is comprised of real and imagined landscapes from Malado’s various travels and youth spent in West Africa. In her work lush colors, geographical forms, and art historical and cultural references combine to create a sense of nostalgia, mystery and grandeur.
In Malado’s own words, “Psychedelic and modern meld with ancient terrain to become timeless and placeless. The landscapes of my childhood in Africa co-habitate with Chinese landscapes, Roman mosaics, Italian frescoes, cave art, and science fiction. I paint these strange places: rocky formations; striations, remnants, ruins, boulders, mounds, caves, domes, huts, and architectural spaces…..as localities that could be primordial; may be post-apocalyptic, and are as familiar as alien. Ideas of both destruction and resurrection play through a lens of vibrant color. I speak to the power of landscape to hold suggestive meaning beyond mapping or describing, into exaltation.”
“Timeless, Placeless,” will be on display through March and is open by appointment.
For more information email artists@gawker.com
SMALL PATTERNS, BIG SHIFTS
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery
February 21-March 29th, 2012
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