Malick Sidibe 'Photographs 1962-2008' Fall 2009

MALICK SIDIBÉ:
PHOTOGRAPHS: 1962-2008

September 12 – October 24, 2009

Maloney Fine Art is proud to present an exhibition of recent and vintage photographs by Malick Sidibé; the renowned 72 year old photographer’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Malick Sidibé was honored in 2008 with the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2007 Sidibe was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Board of La Biennale di Venecia and in 2003 Sidibé was the recipient of the Hasselblad Award.

'Blue, Blue' Summer 2009

George Condo
Mike Dee
Kim Dingle
David Dupuis
David Hendren

Damien Hirst
Anthony James

Yves Klein
Jeff Koons
Rachel Lachowicz
Kim McCarty

Catherine Opie

Sigmar Polke

Ed Ruscha

Simmons & Burke
George Stoll
Tam Van Tran
Maberry / Walker
Millie Wilson
Rob Wynne

EYE CANDY: Fall 2009

Robert Mapplethorpe 'Certain Flowers' Winter 2009

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE 
CERTAIN FLOWERS

Throughout Robert Mapplethorpe’s career, beginning with his first Polaroids in 1973 and continuing until the photographer’s death in 1989, the artist made photographs of flowers in addition to portraits of artists, musicians, cultural icons, and, notoriously, nudes.

Robert Mapplethorpe: “Certain Flowers” focuses on the extreme economy of expression which is a hallmark of the artist’s work. Beguiling floral images, coupled with raking background shadows and a formal structural geometry are characteristics which distinguish Mapplethorpe’s singular vision.

Maberry Walker 'Pool Toys' Spring-Summer 2009

Jorge Pardo 'Installation' Spring 2009

JORGE PARDO
INSTALLATION


Jorge Pardo’s sculpture continues to blur the line between art, design and architecture as well as public and private space. Each project takes on a familiar yet alien presence with recurring elements of surface structure, other-worldly shape, vibrant color and a persistent playfulness that continues to reinvigorate and redefine Pardo’s sculpture.

Pardo’s artworks take many forms, often resembling everyday objects such as lamps, tables, chairs as well as structures, rooms and buildings. But in Pardo’s hands, spatial relationships become critical, color relationships are reinvented and the boundary between that which is utilitarian, useless or hedonistic is stretched and pulled.

Jorge Pardo’s work has been exhibited internationally; including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2001), the Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2000), Skulpture Projekt in Munster (1997) and the Sao Paulo Biennial (2004). This past year Pardo was honored with a mid-career survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2007). Most recently, Jorge Pardo has been commissioned to design the new installation of the Pre-Columbian collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), due to open to the public in June 2008.

Jorge Pardo: born 1963, Havana, lives and works in Los Angeles.

Jorge Pardo 'West Palm Beach Mural' 2006

Jorge Pardo

2006 West Palm Beach Mural Project

1016 Clare Avenue, West Palm Beach, Florida

 

This project was conceived and executed in the early fall of 2005 in response to a request by real estate developer David Wasserman to bring attention to a drab, two-block-long stretch of industrial warehouses, which he owns in the center of West Palm Beach, Florida. Pardo prepared a computer-generated sketch of each façade of the building, which the artist overlaid with his explosive, tropical design. David Wasserman did not hesitate in approving the execution of Pardo’s design.. The sketches were then transferred to working scale drawings, which were in turn executed by scenic artists; Jon Smith, Greg Senner and David Mintz of Sole Scenic, based in Orlando, Florida.. Sole Scenic spent one month executing the hand painted 40,000 square foot façade.

A large photographic mural of the project was included in Pardo’s 2007 survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

Today the mural continues to breath life and vitality into an otherwise industrial neighborhood.