Sylvia Maier
In the Pink, 2020
Oil on linen.
78" x 39"
The Word Became Flesh, 2019
Oil on canvas.
48" x 24"
Activist Row / Reclaiming Her Time, 2018
Oil on canvas.
54" x 72"
Diva, 2018
Oil on canvas.
54" x 72"
Don't Come for Me, Unless I Send for You, 2018
Oil on canvas.
51" x 36"
Drummer's Grove, 2017
Oil on copper.
34" x 47"
Esqueletos sin Alma, 2020.
Oil on canvas.
48" x 73"
Gede Study for Mambo, 2019
Oil on canvas.
30" x 52"
Gran Bwa (study for The Lake), 2018
Oil on canvas.
18" x 60"
Ink Apprentice, 2018
Oil on canvas
48" x 66"
Little Diva, 2018
Oil on canvas.
24" x 27"
Reincarnation in Brooklyn, 2015
Oil on canvas.
75" x 75"
Smoke and Grills, 2017
Oil on canvas.
54" x 48"
The Beheading, 2020
Oil on canvas.
67" x 136"
The Beheading (study), 2020
Oil on canvas.
24" x 30"
The Bicycle Thief, 2020
Oil on canvas.
78" x 78"
The Festival, 2018
Oil on canvas.
42" x 60"
Mambo, 2020
Oil on canvas.
78" x 156"
Malin Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent work by the Brooklyn-based artist Sylvia Maier. Featuring a series of large-scale figurative paintings, the works in About Sangomas and Soothsayers and Mischief depict the environs of the Flatbush and Prospect Park areas of Brooklyn where the artist lives and works - powerfully evoking the unique ethnic and cultural plurality of her community.
Many of the paintings feature friends and neighbors who sat for the artist, and the works are imbued with intense psychological complexity and occasional phantasmagorical elements. Maier combines a naturalistic approach to figuration with tones of magic realism. Working extensively with live models, Maier applies classical sensibilities regarding form, composition and the rendering of light to contemporary - often intensely personal - subjects. A recurring theme throughout the exhibition is the artist’s engagement with the Haitian-American community of Flatbush and its diasporic culture.
About Sangomas and Soothsayers and Mischief is Sylvia Maier’s inaugural exhibition with Malin Gallery.
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From the New York Times: "Three Art Gallery Shows to See in New York Right Now: Syvlia Maier"