Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Puerto Rican
Sofía Maldonado-Suárez is a Puerto Rican artist of Cuban descent, from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has spent most of her career focused on derelict spaces, constructing a poetic experience of colorful abstractions, within uninhabited buildings. Maldonado's urban walkabouts inspired a desire to transform the environment with color by painting abandoned structures using a paint sprayer. Her career is focused on public art and color field painting. The artist also has a dynamic studio practice as a painter and digital illustrator. She develops a sense of community through workshops and versatile community engagement projects. Collaborations with musicians and underground subcultures are an integral part of her artistic practice and aesthetic.
Maldonado's characteristic style is recognizable for its Caribbean palette and roots in muralismo. She deconstructs organic forms in order to explore color fields in her work. She represents feminine energy in her expressive outlines and sensually themed drawings. The artist’s colorful landscapes extended in space indicate the passage of time and the ephemerality of architectural structures. Maldonado's highly saturated, almost fluorescent, tropical palette reflects her animated personality and creates optical vibrations due to her energetic marks and distinctive application of color.
Throughout her career, Maldonado’s illustrations of femininity have been defiant and present the pleasure associated with the female experience in detail. A deep awareness of spatial deconstruction and what has been established are manifested in her architectural color interventions. As an artist she reflects her colonial reality in site-specific projects such as Kalaña, exhibited at the Whitney Museum Biennial, NY (2017). In this project, as in her massive abstract murals, she employs color as a signifier of abandonment, rather than as a beautifying agent. Maldonado explores the spectrum of the feminine body by challenging cultural myths and social constructs from the outlooks of hip hop, trap music, and reggaeton.
Maldonado has earned a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico and an MFA from Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York. She has participated in select exhibitions: PST:LA/LA at MOLAA, California (2017), La Bienal de Asunción, Paraguay (2014), CAAM, Canary Islands (2013), Museum of Art and Design, NY (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (2012), Museo del Barrio Biennial, NY (2011) and the Havana Biennial, Cuba, and Real Arts Public, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2008). She was awarded the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, LMCC, (NY) in 2012.to
3
Aguas Muertas III
By Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Las aguas muertas de vida y sueños. Mudarme a Madrid en medio de una pandemia, ha sido una especie de ensueño. Los viajes a las Islas Baleares y Canarias me ayudar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Aguas Muertas IV
By Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Las aguas muertas de vida y sueños. Mudarme a Madrid en medio de una pandemia, ha sido una especie de ensueño. Los viajes a las Islas Baleares y Canarias me ayudar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Tajogaite Volcán
By Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A series of paintings created during an art residency in La Gomera, Canary Islands (2021).
Keywords: abstract, small format
Artist Biography:
Sofía Maldonado-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Related Items
Why Can't I Cry
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a series that is influenced by trying to find simplicity and beauty in todays chaotic world. I start each painting with a feeling; be it hope, despair, happi...
Category
2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Charcoal, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil
Turbulence, water, abstract expressionism, blue, white, gold, yellow, nature
Located in Jönköping, SE
In keeping with my passion of nature, this collection focusses on the movement and structure of nature. Movement of water, vegetation and even sound. I am fascinated in seeing thing...
Category
2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
H 55.12 in W 59.06 in D 0.04 in
A Time Passed, blue, pink, yellow, Joan Mitchell, flowers, nature, landscape
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is from my series titled "The Untethered Soul." This series delves into the transformative power of nature, capturing the essence of what one feels rather than sees. In...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
H 59.06 in W 47.25 in D 0.04 in
Tears, Smiles and Moments Lost, contemporary abstract, landscape, large painting
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a series that is influenced by trying to find simplicity and beauty in todays chaotic world. I start each painting with a feeling; be it hope, despair, happi...
Category
2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
H 59.06 in W 55.12 in D 0.04 in
The Sound Of Time Rolling On, blue, nature, Joan Mitchell, orange, contemporary
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a series inspired by place. I often wonder why I notice some places in nature while other equally beautiful places go virtually unnoticed. I look for what el...
Category
2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
H 68.9 in W 59.06 in D 0.04 in
All Roads Are Winding, nature, orange, beige, navy blue, Joan Mitchell, red
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is from my series titled "The Untethered Soul." This series delves into the transformative power of nature, capturing the essence of what one feels rather than sees. In...
Category
2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Raw Linen, Acrylic
H 54.73 in W 54.73 in D 0.04 in
"Take Me With You" (contemporary, white, black, floral, painting, antique linen)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
TAKE ME WITH YOU
2024
Paris, France
Canvas composition is divided in half, with the upper potion focused on a floral bouquet, and the bottom half left unfinished other than a subtl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
Nicholas Evans"Take Me With You" (contemporary, white, black, floral, painting, antique linen), 2024
H 18.12 in W 14.97 in D 0.79 in
KUPFERMAN 1969 American Abstract Treescape
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
"With Fear, With Blanket 2" (figure, snake, portrait, pattern, abstract, youth)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
WITH FEAR, WITH BLANKET (2)
PARIS, FRANCE
2024
This painting depicts the most vulnerable version of ones child self. A blanket is represented with the patterned blue material the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
H 21.66 in W 18.12 in D 0.79 in
“So Plant, So Animal” (Graphic, Bold, Abstract, Neutral, Framed, Linen Painting)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal I" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Acrylic, Linen, Wood, India Ink
Nicholas Evans“So Plant, So Animal” (Graphic, Bold, Abstract, Neutral, Framed, Linen Painting), 2022
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
“So Plant, So Animal II” (Graphic, Bold, Abstract, Neutral, Framed Painting)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal II" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
Something To Hold On To
Located in Jönköping, SE
In keeping with my passion of nature, this collection focusses on the movement and structure of nature. Primarily that from trees. I am fascinated by trees and their amazing beauty....
Category
2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Sofia Maldonado Suarez art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Sofia Maldonado Suarez art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Sofia Maldonado Suarez in acrylic paint, fabric, linen and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Sofia Maldonado Suarez art, so small editions measuring 19 inches across are available. Sofia Maldonado Suarez art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,500 and tops out at $1,500, while the average work can sell for $1,500.