ARTIST:

Martin Maloney

Domestic Arrangements #5: Uptown Uptempo Lady, Downtown Downbeat Guy
Martin Maloney
Sex Club (Cowboys)
Martin Maloney
(left) Sex Club (Cocktail), (right) Sex Club (Blow Job)
Martin Maloney
Sex Club (M&S-S&M)
Martin Maloney
Office World
Martin Maloney
TV Dinner
Martin Maloney
The Lecturer
Martin Maloney
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Martin Maloney
Feeding Frenzy, Mother & Child
Martin Maloney
Blue Cat
Martin Maloney

Artist Martin Maloney, trained at St Martin's School of Art and Goldsmith's College in London. He came to prominence in 1999 as one of the artists featured in `New Neurotic Realism' at the Saatchi Gallery.

Untitled, 1996, (Choosing A Tie)
Martin Maloney
Hey Good Looking (After Poussin’s The Choice of Hercules)
Martin Maloney

Martin Maloney’s Hercules is one hot stud: Rod Stewart hair, chest merkin and red Speedos. Like in Poussin’s allegory, he’s pulled two birds, Vice and Virtue, and now has to make a choice. He’s already in like Flynn with Vice: a hot-tomato single mum with Christina Aguilera’s taste in clothes. But his eyes are leaning towards the Olivia Newton-John goody-goody – she’s gonna be no easy task. It’s Maloney’s contemporary twists that make this painting especially funny: Poussin’s finely rendered drapery is substituted with a beach towel, Vice’s sweet cherub’s transformed into a latchkey brat. A little divine romance for the high street.

Candy
Martin Maloney
Stroller
Martin Maloney

Martin Maloney makes social observation paintings, trendy and casual, like jeans ads, or thirty-something sitcoms. His anecdotal scenes are contemporary adaptations of the type of genre paintings, still life’s and portraits seen in historical paintings from artists such as Poussin, Vermeer, and Watteau.

Planters
Martin Maloney

The urban landscape of London artist Martin Maloney is one that is colourful and matter-of-fact, not grey and grim. One could almost say defiantly cheerful. Maloney is an instinctive painter whose works display a vibrancy through much use of patterning and decoration.

Cul de Sac
Martin Maloney

He presents cheery views of life in the singles scene: humorous, awkward, and seductive despite the flaws. Maloney paints 30-somethings in a style that is smart-casual; layered references to art history patched together in faux-naïf. Rendered with all sincerity, Maloney injects a little bit of tragedy into PC-inspired happiness.

Saplings
Martin Maloney

Martin Maloney’s collages operate like magazine imagery; fun is idealized by groups of people hanging out. Attention is always paid to the things that count: clothing, hairstyles, radios, and pets. But Maloney’s product placement seems more like evidence of unfulfilment than success.

Public Sculpture
Martin Maloney

Painting versions of people he’s seen on the street, in his neighbourhood, in his grocery store, Maloney places them in delightful pastoral situations which both mirror and lovingly mock en vogue circumstance and fancy. His messy painting style is comically accurate, his figures are all too familiar, each one with an imagined personality and history completely unique to them

Slade Gardens, SW9, 1995
Martin Maloney

With his first foray into large-scale collage, Martin Maloney replicates painting with thousands of individual pieces cut from coloured sticky-backed vinyl. He shares the secret of paint: a large pink mass for a face, a splotch of white and a line of yellow for a highlight, two semicircles of blue for eyeshadow. Loads of little stringy bits clumped together make a shaggy dog. This leisurely day in the park just isn’t as easy as it looks: this process is as intricate and labour intensive as assembling a Ravenna mosaic.

Conversation Piece
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece
Martin Maloney
Equal Opportunities
Martin Maloney
Sleeping Arrangements
Martin Maloney
Sony Levi
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
People, Places And Things
Martin Maloney
The Big Breakfast
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece: True Love
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece: Reclining Figure
Martin Maloney
Cat Painting
Martin Maloney

Martin Maloney has a directness in making the complexity of colour relationships normally associated with abstraction come to life through figuration. He focuses on ordinary but significant details that are simply described with spontaneity and uninhibited pleasure.

People, Places and Things: Dog Lovers
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Workout
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece: Picture This
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Love Bug
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: A Girl’s Night Out
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Classified Information
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece: Threesome
Martin Maloney
Conversation Piece: Angel
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Music Lovers
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Mothers Love
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Girls on Bikes
Martin Maloney
People, Places and Things: Cover Girls
Martin Maloney
Untitled Portrait (Blue)
Martin Maloney
Untitled (Animal Painting)
Martin Maloney
Untitled Portrait (Red)
Martin Maloney
Untitled Portrait (Orange)
Martin Maloney
Untitled Portrait (Green Polo)
Martin Maloney
Rave (After Poussin’s Triumph of Pan)
Martin Maloney
Rave (After Poussin’s Triumph of Pan)
Martin Maloney

Rave is a contemporary version of the seventeenth-century painting, borrowing both subject and composition. Transforming the master’s racy orgy scene (women, men, goats going for it under the hypnotic influence of horn music – painted with the very epitome of tasteful credential), Martin Maloney’s vision of a wild club night of Y-fronted-pantied dancers, and casual snogging seems positively tame. His intentional casual painting style transforms classic mythological high art into a tangible, intimately concerning scene for today .

Untitled Portrait (Black)
Martin Maloney
Tittle-Tattle
Martin Maloney
Untitled Portrait (Grey/Green)
Martin Maloney
Hyacinths In A Bowl
Martin Maloney
Grape Hyacinths
Martin Maloney
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