“This show has a lot of ideas about mortality, and the way that we live with that,” says artist Nikki Maloof, several hours before the public opening of “Skunk Hour,” her debut exhibition with Perrotin. “
Early in March, Maloof was back in the city to unveil her newest paintings at Perrotin’s Lower East Side gallery location. “These are existential paintings as much as they’re lighthearted and fun,” she says. “They also kind of catch you off guard — or I want them to, at least.”
“This bear was from a real incident that happened, where I was outside and my daughter was like, ‘Mom, I saw a bear,’” says Maloof. “I didn’t see one anywhere. She’s 3, so you can’t fully trust everything she says,” she continues. “I went outside, I was grilling something for dinner — and I turned around and there really was a bear right there. Our neighbors have chickens, and it walked over so casually to the chicken coop and plucked one out and walked away.
“For the longest time I was trying to figure out a way to make paintings that were figurative without having to actually always depict a person,” she says. “I didn’t want [the person] to dominate the feeling of the painting.” She uses color to entice the viewer into the figurative details of her composition, and pairs bright, cheerful colors with darker undertones — the cranberry carpet and walls of one painting leads back to the maroon product of a meat grinder set on a kitchen counter. In another painting, the same kitchen is visible through a window; a nondescript claw sticks out of a cooking pot. Outside in a fruit tree — its own frenetic microcosm — there’s a faint streak of maroon across several apples.
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