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Romy Maloon
About
Though I was born in the United States, my cultural and familial history is resolutely one of other places and identities. As Jewish South Africans, my parents fled the apartheid government of South Africa, not as an act of protest, but rather in fear that the changing tides of history might one day swallow them--swallow us--whole. My work is an attempt to ingratiate and reconcile these disparate identities and geographic spaces with my own personal politics. A generation removed from South Africa, I attempt to reconnect artistically with a place and a political perspective from which I am linked by blood.
My sculptures are a tongue-in-cheek re-imagining of stock "African" and American kitsch images: the slain antelope, the mounted rifle, embellished to mitigate their disturbing imagery. I create sculptures that utilize lowbrow synthetic craft materials to create high-end visceral imagery. Mounted hunting trophies and guns can insight feelings of great unease or admiration depending on the perspective of the viewer. No matter how an individual feels about hunting as sport, it is an activity of power and dominance. It is this space, between the unsettling and the beautiful, the fractured and whole, the displaced and the rooted, that I encourage the viewer to question.
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- Location
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Website
- http://romyaura.blogspot.com/
November 20 – December 26 Fall 2010
Eyedrum Gallery Atlanta, Ga "PLASTIC"
October 9 – November 7 2010
Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta Ga “Atlanta Celebrate Pornography”
Saturday July 24th
The Goat Farm Gallery and Venue Space "Fresh Meat: Filets, Strips and Other Marbled Delights "
February 13- March 07 2010
Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta Ga “Material”
September 18, 2009
Ice House Exhibit, East Atlanta Art Walk (solo Show) Atlanta, Ga
April 2009
Crossley Gallery 2400 Old Bradenton Road Sarasota, FL “Quarry”
September 2008
Crossley Gallery Sarasota, Fl “The Ones That Got Away”
November 2007
Crossley Gallery- Sarasota, Fl “Rubbish Grubbish”
Group Exhibitions:
November 6, 2009
Joint Collective 1335 12th St. Sarasota, FL “Crease”
May- June 2009
Deluxe Arts Miami 2051 N.W. 2nd Avenue Miami, FL “Thesis”
May 1-9 2009”
1962 Main Street Sarasota, FL “Ringling Senior Fine Art Show”
April 17-May 8, 2009
Selby Gallery Sarasota, Fl “Best of Ringling Juried Exhibition”
May 2008
200 DUMBO Brooklyn, NY “Aminal Party”
February 2008
A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street #301 New York, NY 10001 “Generation 6 show”
April 2007
Triangles Gallery Sarasota, Fl “Check it”
May 2007
Selby Gallery Sarasota, Fl “Best of Ringling College 2007”
October 2007
New York, NY Pratt Institute “Tibet Revealed Exhibition (fund raiser for the
Gomar Computer Project)”
October 2007
Sarasota, Fl New College of Florida Charity Art Auction
November 2007 Crossley Gallery Sarasota, Fl “Canstruction” “Harvest for Health”
April 2005
Crossely Gallery Sarasota, Fl “Conceptual Practices” “Come See Me Bitches
Awards and Honors:
2009 Best of Ringling Juried Exhibition
2009 Best of Ringling Sculpture Award
2008 Ringling College of Art and Design Trustees Scholar Award Nominee
2008 Selected to attend the New York Studio Program
2007 Best of Ringling Juried Exhibition 2007 Putterman Award for Printmaking
Press:
2011 Visual Overture Artist of the Week http://visualoverture.com/artistoftheweek.htm
2010 ScoutMob Creative Eyehttp://www.scoutmob.com/atlanta/scoutfinds/346
2010 Dashboard Co-op http://dashboardco-op.org/live/portfolio/168/
2010 Pabst Blue Ribbon “Material” http://pabstblueribbon.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/materials-opens-next-friday-in-atlanta/
2010 Beep Beep Gallery “Material” http://beepbeepgallery.com/
2009 Joint Collective Blog, “Crease show” http://jointcollective.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/
2009 Crossley Gallery “Quarry”
http://crossleygallery.blogspot.com/2009/04/quarry-april-3rd-2009.html
2009 “The One’s that Got Away”
http://crossleygallery.blogspot.com/2008/10/ones-that-got-away-exhibition-featuring.html
2009 Ringling College, Best of Ringling 2009 Awards
http://www.ringling.edu/index.php?id=1745
2008 “Aminal Party”
http://www.aicad.org/nysp/SpringShow/
2008 New York Studio Program http://mishmoshnewyork.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
2008 FCW Society AIR Gallery http://fcwsociety.wordpress.com/2008/02/
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August 2005-May2009
Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 North Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234-5895 BFA
January 2008-May 2008 New York Studio Program 20 Jay Street, Suite M10 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Independent studio program
June 2007-August 2007 Pratt Institute with Global Learning Labs China; Lhasa, Beijing, Xining, Shainghi, Tibet, Amdo, Rebkong Stone Carving and Copper pounding courses, Studied Thanka and Tibetan Language, Participated in fund raising for the Gomar Computer Project … Read More
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