Michael Maloney (born 1950) is a Los Angeles-based art appraiser and art dealer.
[Cathy Curtis]
''Los Angeles Times'', July 1, 1988. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Christopher Knight]
''Los Angeles Times'', November 8, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Art in America]
"Maloney Fine Art"
Accessed April 28, 2020.[Molly Hennessy-Fiske]
''Los Angeles Times'', " December 28, 2009. Accessed April 28, 2020. He owned and operated the Michael Maloney Gallery in Santa Monica, California (1985–90)
[Zan Dubin]
"A New Art Spot—Santa Monica"
''Los Angeles Times'', " August 11, 1987. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Suzanne Muchnic]
''Los Angeles Times'', " December 12, 1992. Accessed April 28, 2020. and Maloney Fine Art in Culver City, California (2006–16),
[Leah Ollman]
''Los Angeles Times'', November 21, 2015. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Scarlet Cheng]
"Shoptalk: Revolution; MOLAA; Gallery Moves; LA Fair Report"
''Artillery'', March 7, 2002. Accessed April 28, 2020. and since 1998 has pursued a career as an art appraiser and private dealer in Los Angeles and New York.
[Brent Hopkins]
"The price is right"
''The Daily Bruin'', November 18, 1998. Accessed April 28, 2020.
Maloney represented and exhibited a wide range of internationally established and then-emerging artists, including
John Baldessari,
[Kristine McKenna]
"Art Reviews: Baldessari Redux"
''Los Angeles Times'', September 22, 1990. Accessed April 28, 2020. Jean Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Basquiat first achieved fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al ...
,
[Artist-Info]
"Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)"
''Artist-Info''. Accessed April 28, 2020. Travis Collinson
Travis Collinson (born Sacramento, California) is a visual artist whose paintings take elements from photographs and sketches and reinterpret them at larger scale.
Collinson lives and works in San Francisco, CA. According to critics, his works ...
,
[Eve Wood]
"Travis Collinson: Paintings and Drawings @ Maloney Fine Art, Culver City"
''Whitehot Magazine'', February 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020. Jeff Colson
Jeff Colson (born 1957) is an American artist.
Colson was born in Santa Ana, California in 1957. He uses diverse materials in painted and sculpted works that reflect both pop and conceptual art. His work often employs ''trompe l’oeil'' effect ...
,
[Catherine Wagley]
"5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Dog With a Pink Leg"
''LA Weekly'', November 25, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2020. Donald Judd,
[Donald Judd & Maloney Fine Art]
"Donald Judd: Drawings 1963-1977"
Los Angeles: Maloney Fine Art, 2010. Accessed April 28, 2020. Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Hi ...
,
[Roy Lichtenstein Foundation]
"Exhibition History"
Accessed April 28, 2020. Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-p ...
,
[Artland]
Maloney Fine Art
''Artland''. Accessed April 28, 2020. Kim McCarty,
[Hunter Drohojowska-Philp]
"Sadie Benning and Kim McCarty"
''KCRW'' Art Talk, January 15, 2015. Accessed April 28, 2020. Robert Motherwell,
Joel Otterson
Joel Otterson (born in Inglewood, CA, 1959, United States) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Professional life and education
Otterson received his BFA at Parsons School of Design, New York, NY in 1982. In 1983, Otterso ...
,
[Leah Ollman]
"Joel Otterson"
''Art in America'', October 30, 2015. Accessed April 28, 2020. Ed Ruscha,
[Catherine Wagley]
"Five Artsy Things to Do This Week"
''LA Weekly'', June 6, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2020. Malick Sidibé[Carolina A. Miranda]
"Datebook: J.M.W. Turner’s late work, African portraiture, lowbrow pin-ups,"
''Los Angeles Times'', " February 26, 2015. Accessed April 28, 2020. and
Andy Warhol.
[Suzanne Muchnic]
"Santa Monica"
''Los Angeles Times'', " May 27, 1988. Accessed April 28, 2020. The two galleries and their exhibitions were written about in many publications, including the ''Los Angeles Times'',
[William Wilson]
''Los Angeles Times'', February 12, 1988. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Suzanne Muchnic]
''Los Angeles Times'', " September 12, 1989. Accessed April 28, 2020. ''Art in America'',
''Artillery'',
[Eve Wood]
"John Tottenham at Maloney Fine Art"
''Artillery'', June 26, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2020. ''LA Weekly'',
[Catherine Wagley]
"God Willing"
''LA Weekly'', August 8, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020. and ''Huffington Post'',
[Steven Zevitas]
"Must See Painting Shows: February 2013"
''HuffPost'', February 11, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020. among others.
Life and career
Maloney was born in 1950 in Los Angeles.
After studying graphic design and illustration at
ArtCenter College of Design
Art Center College of Design (stylized as ArtCenter College of Design) is a private art college in Pasadena, California.
History
ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the Art Center School.
In 1935, Fred ...
in Pasadena, he moved to Boston and opened his first galleries, East End Gallery and West End Gallery (1980–5) in the seaside resort of Provincetown;
[Christopher Busa, "Conversations with Art Dealers," ''Provincetown Arts'', Summer 1987, p. 93–7.] the galleries' summer-only programs focused on work by young Boston, New York and Los Angeles artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat,
Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring, as well as established ones such as
David Hockney,
Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol.
[Zan Dubin]
"Eyeing the Gallery Scene: The Looking Is Free-- and Often Wall-to-Wall Stimulating"
''Los Angeles Times'', April 4, 1987. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Lisa Dennison, ''New Horizons In American Art'', New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985, p. 98.][MoMA]
"The Dedalus Foundation's Robert Motherwell Scrapbooks"
Archives. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Provincetown Arts, "Galleries," ''Provincetown Arts'', August 1985, p. 23.] During the winter months, Maloney worked for the Hokin Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida and Jan Turner Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1985, he returned to California and opened the Michael Maloney Gallery in Santa Monica, which remained open until early 1991.
[Suzanne Muchnic]
''Los Angeles Times'', " April 7, 1991. Accessed April 28, 2020. During the 1990s, Maloney pursued work in New York (including with
Gagosian Gallery) and Los Angeles as a private art dealer and curator, before establishing himself as an art appraiser and Director of 20th Century Art for Butterfield & Butterfield Auctioneers (now
Bonhams) in California in 1998.
Since that time, he has worked as an independent appraiser, and in 2006, opened Maloney Fine Art in Culver City, California, which operated through 2016.
[LivWill Art]
"Art World Q & A: Edition 6"
March 28, 2017. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Scott Eyman]
"At home with the art collector"
''Palm Beach Post'', January 11, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020. Since 2007, Maloney has contributed to "Angel Art," an annual art auction that has raised over $10 million for the nonprofit, Project Angel Food, which provides meals for men, women and children suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
[Henry K Long]
"Angel Art 2017, Connecting Artists and Collectors for a Great Cause…Project Angel Food!"
''HuffPost'', June 4, 2017. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Beverly Press, "'Angel Art' returns for annual fundraiser," ''Beverly Press'', May 25, 2017, p. 24.]
Michael Maloney Gallery
Maloney opened the Michael Maloney Gallery in 1985, operating as owner and director in the burgeoning gallery districts that developed in the city at the time.
[Lisbet Nilson]
''Los Angeles Times'', May 13, 1990. Accessed April 28, 2020. He offered a mixed program of established and emerging artists, with work ranging from collage-like lithographs by Robert Motherwell and postmodern, multi-image triptychs by John Baldessari, to the quirky, quasi-naive paintings and diminutive, minimal wall sculptures of younger New Yorkers
Joe Andoe
Joe Andoe (born 1955) is an American artist, painter, and author. His works have been featured in exhibits internationally and also numerous museums including the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston ...
and
Catherine Lee, respectively, to small surveys of Andy Warhol's work.
Other artists that the gallery exhibited include
Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein and
Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...
, and then-emerging figures such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner,
Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente,
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-p ...
and
Joel Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated ...
, among others.
[Kristine McKenna]
"Santa Monica"
''Los Angeles Times'', April 14, 1989. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
In early 1991, like many others in Santa Monica, Maloney closed his gallery in the face of a prolonged economic downturn and art market slump in order to pursue private dealing.
Maloney Fine Art
Maloney opened Maloney Fine Art in 2006, operating again as owner and director in an intimate space in Culver City, California.
[Sasha Bergstrom-Katz]
"Blue in the Face"
''Artslant'', June 5, 2009. Accessed April 28, 2020. He adopted a similar program mixing established and emerging artists, which often played out in eclectic group exhibitions, such as a 2009's "Blue Blue," which featured works in blue by artists as diverse as
Yves Klein,
Catherine Opie and
Kim Dingle
Kim Dingle (born 1951) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist working across painting, sculpture, photography, found imagery, and installation. Her practice explores themes of American culture, history, and gender politics through both figurati ...
, or a 2014 show of
Mike Kelley,
Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for ...
and Ed Ruscha, which ''LA Weeklys Catherine Wagley compared to "a
psychedelia-meets-grunge mixtape
hatmight remind you of times when your mind was blown."
[LA Canvas]
"Resurrected Pictures, Maloney Fine Arts"
''LA Canvas'', The Hidden Issue, May–June 2013, p. 32. Accessed April 28, 2020. The 2013 exhibition, "Fire in Her Belly," featured sociopolitical work centered on dissent and censorship by artists including
ACT UP
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. The group works to improve the lives of people with AIDS through direct action, medical research, treatment and advocacy, ...
,
Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His '' Piss Christ'' (1987) is a red-tinged photograph of a ...
,
Annie Sprinkle
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, and advocate for sex work and health care. Citing: Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute, sex educator, femi ...
,
Ai Weiwei, and
David Wojnarowicz.
[Visual Aids]
"Talking to Martabel Wasserman About 'Fire in Her Belly'"
''Visual Aids'', September 16, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Claire Trevor School of the Arts]
"Martabel Wasserman Curates Show at Maloney Fine Art"
News, University of California Irvine, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020.
Other well-covered exhibitions included: Joel Otterson's thrift-shop object assemblages ("Chandelier Queer," 2013) and decorative glass and sewn works ("Needleworks," 2015);
[Eve Wood]
"Joel Otterson at Maloney Fine Art,"
''Artillery'', December 11, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020.[Hammer Museum]
"Hammer Highlights 2017: Recent Acquisitions"
December 20, 2017. Accessed April 28, 2020. Jeff Colson's ''
trompe l’oeil'' sculpture of an overflowing garage (''Roll Up'', 2014)
and absurdist ode to paper (''Stacks'', 2015);
the spare, oblique portraits of Travis Collinson and wet-into-wet watercolors of Kim McCarty;
[Eve Wood]
"Travis Collinson"
''Artillery'', May 26, 2015. Accessed April 28, 2020.Millie Wilson Millie Wilson (born 1948 in Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Austin, Texas. Wilson was a member of the faculty in the Program in Art at The California Institute of the Arts from 1985 to 2014.
Wilson's practic ...
's interrogation of gender stereotypes through vernacular, found photographs, presented in small light boxes;
[ArtDaily]
"Solo exhibition of new work by Millie Wilson on view at Maloney Fine Art"
''ArtDaily'', 2013. Accessed April 28, 2020. and a 40-year survey of Malick Sidibé's matter-of-fact, black-and-white portraits in the wake of
Mali's independence in 1960.
[Lara Taubman]
"Endless Summer"
''Artnet'', October 15, 2009. Accessed April 28, 2020.
Maloney carried over many artists from his previous gallery;
some of the additional artists that he exhibited include established names, such as
Diane Arbus,
George Condo
George Condo (born 1957) is an American visual artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City.
Early life
Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He studied art history and musi ...
,
[Los Angeles Modern Auctions]
"Just In: A Keynote Painting by George Condo"
''LAMA'', November 11, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2020. Donald Judd,
and
Hiroshi Sugimoto, and emerging or lesser-known artists, such as Ford Beckman,
[ArtDaily]
"Exhibition of Ford Beckman's work opens at Maloney Fine Art"
''ArtDaily'', February 2012. Accessed April 28, 2020. Danny First,
[Edward Goldman]
"Artistic Execution of 'Dear Leaders'"
''KCRW'' Art Talk, February 7, 2012. Accessed April 28, 2020.,
Masood Kamandy,
[Mark Westall]
"Massood Kamandy Collapse at Maloney Fine Art Los Angeles on NOW"
''FAD Magazine'', July 15, 2012. Accessed April 28, 2020. Maberry + Walker,
Yassi Mazandi,
[MutualArt]
"New ceramic sculpture and works on paper by Los Angeles artist Yassi Mazandi on view at Maloney Fine Arts"
''MutualArt''. Accessed April 28, 2020. Jorge Pardo Jorge Pardo may refer to:
*Jorge Pardo (artist)
*Jorge Pardo (musician) (born 1955), Spanish musician
*J. D. Pardo
Jorge Daniel Pardo (born September 7, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Jack Toretto in '' F9'' (2021), as ...
,
[Edward Goldman]
"Up Close and Personal: Happiness and Monsters"
''KCRW'' Art Talk, June 3, 2008. Accessed April 28, 2020. Augusto Sandroni,
[Bill Bush]
"There Will Be Art: This Artweek.LA"
''HuffPost'', July 31, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2020. George Stoll,
[Conte Art News]
"Maloney Fine Art Presents Sculpture and Paintings by George Stoll"
''Conte Art News'', January 9, 2011. Accessed April 28, 2020. and John Tottenham, among others.
[Carolina A. Miranda]
''Los Angeles Times'', June 12, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2020.[MutualArt]
Maloney Fine Art Exhibitions
Galleries, ''MutualArt''. Accessed April 28, 2020.
In the beginning of 2017, Maloney decided to shutter the gallery in order to fully focus on his appraisal business; art writers cited the move (and other closings in the area) as symptomatic of a declining art market for galleries caused by a lack of new, younger collectors and auctions cutting into sales.
Art appraisal
Maloney has worked as an art appraiser for more than twenty years, specializing in 20th and 21st century modern and contemporary paintings, prints, photographs and art
installations; he is certified by the Appraisers Association of America and earned a USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) certificate in 2008 from
New York University.
He began in 1997 with Butterfield & Butterfield Auctioneers (Bonhams) in California, and since 2000, has worked independently in Los Angeles for many of the region's prominent private collectors, museums and other arts institutions.
References
External links
Maloney Art Appraisalsofficial website
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American art dealers
People from Los Angeles
1950 births
Living people