Animal Crackers: New works by Jim Malone

“I got acquainted with the Chihuahuan Desert about fifty years ago. Plants, animals, geology and history. All was fascinating and important for staying alive. Like any landscape with extremes, it’s dangerous. Since that time, I’ve used the desert as a subject for my art. It’s a difficult place but a healthy place, in that everything counts.” - Jim Malone

Artspace111 is proud to present the latest exhibition Animal Crackers, featuring mixed media artwork by Jim Malone. Malone depicts the Texas desert as a draftsman highlighting celestial and terrestrial landscapes. He works intuitively to find threads of meaning, linking imagery that reveals a pattern. This exhibition dazzles the viewer with bright pops of neon color, akin to the big Texas sky, peppered with wild horses, whimsical birds and land critters. Malone’s ode to the Texan desert speaks to what we can and can’t live without. In a world full of excess, Malone calls us back to the basics of survival, humility and love. His mixed media artworks contain graphite, spray paint, gold leaf and sparkle stars. He blends the sky and rock formations, while incorporating cut out animals onto the work, which give his images an approachable but surreal flare. Malone is refreshingly unpretentious and works spontaneously. In this way, the fitting title Animal Crackers brings light and brevity into the conversation of art. His simple motifs of the desert transform into something one can only feel when verbal expression falls short.

Animal Crackers will be on view February 6 - March 15, 2025. Opening reception, Thursday, February 6, 5:30 - 7:30pm. Guests may also visit the gallery during regular hours, Tuesday – Friday 11am -5pm, and Saturday 11am -2pm.

“Jim Malone creates art that speaks to the specific experience of Texans’ love, fear and respect of the desert. But does it with his own visual voice and captivating mixed-media style that only Malone can command.” - Margery Gossett, Gallery Director.

Artist Talk | Artspace111

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

5:30 - 7:00pm

Contact email: simone@artspace111.com