{"id":13585,"date":"2023-03-16T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2023-03-16T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:23:55","slug":"nikki-maloof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/nikki-maloof\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Maloof"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_628\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13585-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/NikkiMaloof.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/NikkiMaloof.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/NikkiMaloof.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13600\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13600 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-14.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-14.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-14.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-14.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-14.jpg?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-14.jpg?w=853&amp;ssl=1 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leaflet.perrotin.com\/view\/444\/skunk-hour\">Nikki Maloof\u2019s paintings<\/a> depict the world hidden within the mind. Imagined interiors, and animals become proxies for the human experience. Her subjects convey existential loneliness, but that loneliness is buoyed by humor, capricious paint handling, and the use of a saturated palette. A squiggle depicting ground meat, a cat\u2019s meow being mistaken for a howl, or a comically disillusioned fish being filleted before our eyes, all draw the viewer\u2019s attention to the melancholic and at times brutal tone of the imagery.\u00a0 At the same time, the paint handling and colors attempt to undermine the dark nature of these images all together. This self-defeating melodrama points to an ambivalent view of existence, to a need to laugh and cry and even at once.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13601\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13601 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=1068%2C1602&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Maloof, The Cherry Tree, 2022. Oil on linen, 64 x 48 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13602\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13602 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=696%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=696%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=768%2C1131&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=1043%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1043w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=1068%2C1572&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?w=1391&amp;ssl=1 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Maloof, In the Yellow Room, 2022. Oil on linen, 78 x 60 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13603\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13603 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof.jpg?resize=696%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1366&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1280&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-Nikki-Maloof-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Maloof, Skunk Hour, 2022. Oil on linen, 74 x 114 inch. Photograph: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/NikkiMaloof.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Nikki Maloof\u2019s paintings depict the world hidden within the mind. Imagined interiors, and animals become proxies for the human experience. 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