Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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.

Artist: Sofia Maldonado Suarez

Sofia Maldonado SuarezAguas Muertas III, 2021

$1,500

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Sofia Maldonado SuarezAguas Muertas IV, 2021

$1,500

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Sofia Maldonado SuarezTajogaite Volcán, 2021

$1,500

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-...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Nicholas Evans"Jardin Des Plantes" (Fauna, Floral, Black, Blue, Graphic Landscape, Sky, Trees), 2024

$3,250

H 45.67 in W 35.04 in D 0.79 in

"Jardin Des Plantes" (Fauna, Floral, Black, Blue, Graphic Landscape, Sky, Trees)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

JARDIN DES PLANTES 2024, PARIS Inspired by the artist's relationship to "Jardin Des Plantes", located in the 5th arrondissements of Paris, France, this original landscape depicts th...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Dye, Acrylic, Linen

David CollinsBlue Studio, 2014

$6,400

H 38 in W 54 in

Blue Studio

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen

Jules OlitskiTortuga, 1985

$19,500

H 8 in W 20 in

Tortuga

By Jules Olitski

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is one of Caviar20's favorite abstract artists of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, his aesthetic evolved in startling and fascinating ways....

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

David CollinsFaith's House

$1,600

H 12 in W 12 in

Faith's House

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins has an ongoing interest in space and memory. Many of Collins’ memories relate to his family’s history in inventing Cold War era technology. Personal recollections of sp...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Wood, Paper, Acrylic

Carole EisnerPtyson (abstract, nuetral, gray, geometric, large, acrylic on canvas painting), 1980

$11,500

H 51 in W 50 in

Ptyson (abstract, nuetral, gray, geometric, large, acrylic on canvas painting)

By Carole Eisner

Located in New York, NY

1980s Geometric Abstract Painting in cool, mutes tones, acrylic on linen

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1980s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

David CollinsIn Plain Sight, 2012

$4,000

H 24 in W 36 in

In Plain Sight

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins has an ongoing interest in space and memory. Many of Collins’ memories relate to his family’s history in inventing Cold War era technology. Personal recollections of sp...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Silk, Paper, Acrylic

David CollinsPink Tops, 2010

$2,000

H 16 in W 12 in

Pink Tops

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen, Wood Panel

David CollinsIce Shelf, 2007

$4,800

H 32 in W 44 in

Ice Shelf

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen, Oil, Panel

David CollinsThe Rigging, 2011

$6,400

H 38 in W 54 in

The Rigging

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, and has exhi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen

James TwittyDover, 1968

$4,000

H 48 in W 48 in

Dover

By James Twitty

Located in Dallas, TX

Signed "Twitty" at lower right

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1960s Abstract Geometric Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen

Susan Cantricksbc 203 (Abstract painting), 2016

$8,202

H 44.89 in W 57.49 in

sbc 203 (Abstract painting)

By Susan Cantrick

Located in London, GB

sbc 203 (Abstract painting) Acrylic on Linen - Unframed The artist considers this painting to be a continuation of the kind of space revealed in sbc 195: A formal matrix that is p...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

David CollinsRooftop Hothouse, 2014

$6,400

H 38 in W 54 in

Rooftop Hothouse

By David Collins

Located in Dallas, TX

David Collins has an ongoing interest in space and memory. Many of Collins’ memories relate to his family’s history in inventing Cold War era technology. Personal recollections of sp...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

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