STEVE MALONEY

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

 

My art reflects a fascination with velocity, American icons, machine forms, humorous snapshots of life, and most importantly pop culture.  I enjoy using bold colors in a style that brings wondering amazement and joy to our surroundings, often adding a bit of levity to the everyday world. It is exhilarating to create art with real energy and motion, embracing spontaneity and using the vibration of colors to express a scene or moment.

By working in a variety of disciplines, including painting, sculpture, collage, film and performance, I continuously push myself beyond my comfort zone.  Most importantly, I accomplish my goals as an artist without being confined to a specific medium.

What motivates me is the creative process, whether I am working on a piece for a public art program, a commission, a new series of paintings or conceptualize future works, throughout, I remain passionate while exploring my conscious and sub conscious in order to create the final visual result.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Western Michigan University

Michigan State University

Northern Arizona University

American School, Lugano, Switzerland

Studied with Kwok Wai Lau, a past faculty member of the International Art School of Hong Kong, Lecturer at The Art Institute of Chicago, and current faculty member at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California

Born: Kalamazoo, MI

Current Residence: Rancho Santa Fe, CA

 

 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

 

2009                Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2009                True Value Hardware Store, Palms Springs, CA

2008                Concourse d’Elegance, Pebble Beach, CA

2008                The Daytona 500 Club, Daytona Beach, FL

2007                Coda Gallery, New York, NY

2007                Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY

2007                Hard Rock Café, New York, NY

2007                CARDOZO School of Law, New York, NY

2007                The Petroleum Museum, Midland, TX

2005                Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS

2005                Wells Fargo Bank, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

2004                Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA

2004                Wells Fargo Bank, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

2003                Wells Fargo Bank, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

2003                International Boat Show, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2002                San Diego County Fair’s Elvis-themed Exhibition of Art, Del Mar, CA

2001                Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2009                Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2009                Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2008                Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2007                Palm Springs Art Museum, “Treasures of the West”, Palm Springs, CA

2006                Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2006                Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2005                Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2004                Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2004                Palm Springs, International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA

2004                Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2003                Palm Springs, International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA

2003                Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

2003                Bella Macchina, Palm Beach, FL

2002                Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA

2001                Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

 

AWARDS

 

2008      Outstanding Painting

Palm Springs Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs, CA

2006    Most Creative

            Palm Springs Art Museum, Artist Council Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs, CA

 

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

 

2009    La Jolla CowParade, La Jolla, CA

2004    Hail Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI

2003      Path of the Bighorn, Palm Springs, CA

 

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND SCREENINGS

             

2009    Palm Springs International Short Fest – The seven-minute short Palm Springs Charcoal, directed by René Simon Cruz, uses Steve Maloney’s exhibit at the Palm Springs True Value Hardware to reveal the artist’s playful take on American consumerism

2006             American School, Switzerland -- In Honor of its Golden Anniversary & Spring Arts Festival Montagnola, Switzerland        

 

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

 

GRAND AM for Charity Camp Boggy Creek, Las Vegas, NV

Lexus’ “Parts Art”, Concourse d’Elegance, Pebble Beach, CA

Frank Sinatra Celebrity Golf Collection, Rancho Mirage, CA

Kiton, NY

Net Jets Operations Center, Columbus, OH

Scripps Hospital, Encinitas, CA

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Maloney, Steve. “This Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road”, Art Book 2007, ISBN 0-9791429-0-3

Maloney, Steve. “Banned Booty, A Contemporary Art Collection Created From Carry-On Items Confiscated By Airports Security,” March 2004.

Maloney, Steve. “Checker Elvis Sightings in New York”, August 2004.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Barns, Brooks.  “The Jet Set,” The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2002.

Bleiberg, Larry.  “Art Series Designed for Private Jets,” The Dallas Morning News, December 8, 2002.

Lightbourn, Arthur.  “RSF Resident Finds Success – Again – and ‘Another’ Passion as Artist,” Rancho Santa Fe Review, September 25, 2003.

Kaufman, David.  “Flight of Fancy,” American Express Centurion, December 2002.

Pirozzolo, Dick.  “Art Appreciation, A New Art Genre Proliferates in Private Jets,” Aircraft Interior, January/February 2003.

Karen Chan, BBC World Service Programme “The World Today” April 4, 2003.

Espindel, Mike.  “Fine Art to Go,” Elite Traveler, May/June 2003.

Steve Maloney, Digital Art Show, CNN Headline News, July 22, 2003.

Kissinger, Meg.  “Rolling Art: Motorcycle Design at Home in Museum,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,

August 24, 2003.

KPSP CBS Evening News, Palm Springs, CA “Banned Booty” September 11, 2003.

News 10 Good Morning KXTV-TV ABC, Sacramento, CA, September 26, 2003.

Clark, Jane.  “Airport Booty Takes Off as Artwork,” USA Today, September 26, 2003.

National Public Radio (NPR), September 28, 2003.

Victor Barry, RedFM 104-106, Cork, Ireland, September 29, 2003.

Madison Morning Show, KPRI FM San Diego, CA September 29, 2003.

Esposido, Mat.  “California Artist Redefines the Ephemeral,” BOAT International USA, October 2003.

Bruce Kenyon, The QR77 Morning Show, Calgary, Canada October 2, 2003.

Bunting, Chris.  “Booty-ful,” New York Post, October 21, 2003.

Bleiberg, Larry.  “Items Seized at Airport Become Art in California,” The Dallas Morning News,

October 21, 2003.

Kammerer, Olga.  “Ist Ihre Nagelfeile auch dabei?” Freundin, December 13, 2003.

Peter Anthony Holder, “Holder Overnight”, CJAD 800 AM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada March 19, 2004.

Wurzer, Ron.  “Check Your Booty,” The Seattle Times, March 26, 2004.

Hackett, Regina.   “The ‘Lighter’ Side of Terrorism: Booty Seized at Airports on Display,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 27, 2004.

Banned Booty Exhibition Announcement, KOMO 4 News TV, March 27, 2004.

Banned Booty Exhibition Announcement, KIRO TV 7 Eyewitness News, March 27, 2004.

Banned Booty Exhibition Announcement, Northwest Cable News, March 27, 2004.

Banned Booty Exhibition Announcement and Interview with Steve Maloney, Q13 FOX, March 27, 2004.

Fark, Bill.  Banned Booty, County, April 14, 2004.

Darosa, Alison.  “Latitudes and Attitude: Banned Booty Art,” San Diego Union Tribune, April 25, 2004.

“Banned Booty, One Man’s Loss is Another Man’s Art,” General Aviation News, April 30, 2004.

Carpenter, Richard.  “Flight Exhibit Grounded in Art,” Boston Globe, May 9, 2004.

“Ready for Takeoff – Plenty is Left Hanging at The Museum of Flight,” Sunday Telegram, May 9, 2004.

“Banned Booty,” Stratos Magazine, June 2004.

“Post 9/11 Contraband Fills ‘Booty Runway,” San Diego Union-Tribune, October 3, 2004.

“Banned Booty”. Kalamazoo Gazette, September 23, 2004.

Chipkin, Harvey.  “Banned Booty,” Frequent Flyer Online, November 16, 2004.

Banned Booty, Morning Call – CNBC National, January 7, 2005.

Bennet, Andrea.  “Odd & Ends: Banned but Not Forgotten,” Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2005.

Clark, Aaron.  “Art with An Edge,” Travel & Leisure, January 2005.

“Beute-Kunst vom Flughafen,” Geo Saison, June 2005.

“Artist share name but each has own style”, by Amanda Daniels, San Diego Union Tribune, North Coast,

August 2005

“Artist Exhibit work at Wells Fargo”, by Joe Appleton, Rancho Santa Fe News, August 2005

“Gallery owners wield brushes to express diversity in style”, by Marti Gacloch, Del Mar Times, September, 2006

“Lost and Found”, by Alan W. Petrucelli, Palm Springs Life, August 2006

“Banned Booty…and other treasures”, by Paolo Andrade, TASIS, Switzerland 2007

“This Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road”, Art Book, interview with Flash Wire News, San Diego, CA, April 2007

“This Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road”, Art Book and The Petroleum Museum exhibition, life interview with Dave Wilson radio show WIBC, Indiana, April 2007

“Steve Maloney at The Petroleum Museum”, www.artdaily.org, May 7, 2007

“The Morning Drive” TIWTRMTR interview, with Robert Hallmark of KCRS, Midland TX, May 2007

“Artist’s Take on NASCAR is on View”, Dallas Morning News, May 13, 2007

“Steve Maloney Solos at The Petroleum Museum”, ArtKnowledgeNews.com, May 2007

“Interesting Exhibition”,  Midland Reporter Telegram, May 15, 2007

“Autos Into Art: Artist Steve Maloney”, Odessa American, May 2007

“Artist Steve Maloney” interview, KMID T.V. (Local ABC affiliate), Midland, TX May 2007

“Artist Steve Maloney” interview, KWES T.V. (Local NBC affiliate), Midland, TX May 2007

“Artist Steve Maloney” interview, KOSA T.V. (Local CBC affiliate), Midland, TX May 2007

“Naughty Booty” life interview with Peter Anthony Holder radio show CJAD, Montreal and CFRB Toronto, Canada September 11, 2007

“This Is Where The Rubber Meets The Road” at Coda Gallery, New York, NY www.artdaily.org, Nov. 13, 2007

“Tailgating:, NASCAR daily blog, November 25, 2007

 “Cuando chartarra se convierte en arte”, NASCAR.com/2007/espanol November 26, 2007

“NASCAR Wreckage Is Beautiful Thing To Artist”, flashnews.com, November 2007

“Maloney car-art exhibition now on display in Soho”, NASCAR.com, November 2007

“A Passion for Art”, IN NEW YORK Magazine, November 2007

“Dialed In with Claire Lang” TIWTRMTR interview, XM Satellite Radio, November, 2007

“Into the Wall, then Onto the Wall”, AUTOMOBIL Magazine, January 2008

“But Is It Art?”, NASCAR Illustrated Magazine, January 2008

“California artist has special use for car parts”, The Daytona Beach News-Journal, February 15, 2008

“Road Show”, TIME Magazine worldwide, February 25, 2008

“A DRIVING FORCE, Artist gets inspiration from recycled NASCAR parts”, by Maggie Downs, The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, March 8, 2008

“Culture Clash”, Sporting News, March 17, 2008

“Picasso of Cars”, Rancho Santa Fe News, Aug. 15, 2008

“1-800GadgetsAntGizmosArt.com”, flashnews.com, by Alex Devi, January 6, 2009

“Pop art display at Palm Springs hardware store”, mydesert.com, January 6, 2009

“XXX” ABC’s local station in Palm Springs, KESQ TV, 1/06 and 1/07

Gene Nichols, NewsTalk KPSI AM920, January 6, 2009

“Artist gets ideas from commercials”, by Stefanie Frith, The Desert Sun, January 7, 2009

“1800…Art Show”, by Crystal Chatham, Metromix.com, with mydesert.com, Palm Springs, CA January 7, 2009

“Artist Steve Maloney is showing his pop art pieces at True Value”, USAToday.com, January 6, 2009

“Nude Art...in a Hardware Store?” By Eddie Quezada, KESQ.com

“New Pop Art Show”, by Gordon Parr, NotesFromPalmSprings.com, January 6, 2009

“Mooving Up”, by Dan Bennett, North County Times, Escondido, March 18, 2009

“Palm Springs Charcoal from artist Steve Maloney”, www.palmspringslife.com/Blogs/The-Life/, June 11, 2009

“Palm Springs Short Festival”, by Gil Diaz, KESQ-TV, June 23, 2009           

“Eye on the Desert: Palm Springs Short Festival”, by Mary Silverstein, KPSP local 2, June 18, 2009

“Indi-Film Channel” by Mike Petersen, AD Video, July 1, 2009

“Art meets hardware at the ShortFest” by Scott Brassart, Desert Entertainer, June 18, 2009