Chalda Maloff “Search Engines: New Digital Paintings”
Ceres Gallery
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Chalda Maloff’s new series of work is dedicated to our most basic and timeless need: the search for personal insight, clarity, and meaning.
Maloff employs the powerful aesthetic potential of the computer to create images that elicit emotion and spirituality. “The abstract geometric shapes governing each composition,” Maloff says, “suggest the forms employed in ceramics, crafts, or weavings fashioned by the earliest artisans. These forms were perhaps the first expressions of timeless existential thoughts.” Surfaces of the artworks appear solid, then liquid, smooth, then highly textured, rippling, and sometimes reflective, suggesting the deeper shifting patterns of the fabric of life. Shapes and forms vary from organic and timeless, to blatantly pixelated and contemporary. The visual effect of backlighting or inner glow engenders a feeling of gratification and openness to experience, as it has done from the ages of sun/fire worship through the age of device/screen worship.
Chalda Maloff’s work has been exhibited throughout North and South America, and in Europe. At the VIII Salón de Arte Digital, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Venezuela, her art was commended by the jurors for its “poetic abstract expression and purity of execution.” Her work was included in the inaugural exhibit of the Museum of Computer Art in New York City. Her recent solo exhibits have been at the Houston Jung Center in Texas and Morris Graves Museum of Art in California.
[Image: Chalda Maloff “Seeing Without Looking” 30 x 30 inches, Pigment inks on paper, mounted to acrylic ]
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Schedule
from May 28, 2013 to June 22, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-30 from 18:00 to 20:00