David Malek Exhibition
Smith-Stewart
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Smith-Stewart presents the US solo debut of New York artist DAVID MALEK. The exhibition features twelve new paintings.
For Smith-Stewart, Malek produced a series of geometric abstractions in a dynamic color palette that fill an entire wall in the gallery from floor to ceiling. Here Malek is exploring a certain optical phenomenon, where the after-image of one painting extends across the surface of the surrounding paintings. The installation induces an electric encounter of color interactions, which not only play out within each individual painting, but from picture to picture.
David Malek’s body of work is informed by an intensive interest in light and color and an extensive examination of utopian invention and cosmic perception. The imagery in Malek's paintings is informed by chemistry, physics and astronomy, science fiction films and the graphics and visual vocabulary associated with certain sub-genres of pop-music.
David Malek was born in 1977 in Springfield, IL and currently is based in Brooklyn, New York. He received a MFA from Hunter College CUNY, NY in 2006.
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Schedule
from March 04, 2009 to April 12, 2009