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 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

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

Lloyd TabingTurbulence, water, abstract expressionism, blue, white, gold, yellow, nature, 2024

$4,113

H 55.12 in W 59.06 in D 0.04 in

Turbulence, water, abstract expressionism, blue, white, gold, yellow, nature

By Lloyd Tabing

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...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Lloyd Tabing Description Of My Thoughts, expressionism, Koons, Mitchell, flowers, deboning, 2025

$4,060

H 55.12 in W 51.19 in D 0.04 in

Description Of My Thoughts, expressionism, Koons, Mitchell, flowers, deboning

Located in Jönköping, SE

This painting is part of a new series I began in the fall of 2025 titled Contemplation and Introspection. In this series I am exploring the profound relationship between nature and t...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Suki Maguire"Nature and Human Relation-Ships" Abstract Portrait Expressionist Painting, 2007

$2,000

H 18 in W 13 in D 0.75 in

"Nature and Human Relation-Ships" Abstract Portrait Expressionist Painting

By Suki Maguire

Located in New York, NY

This piece is an abstract composition done with mixed media, oil and acrylic paints on linen. The artist explores an incredible world filled with color and expressive brush strokes. ...

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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Lloyd Tabing Don't Let Yourself Go, contemporary, Joan Mitchell, Larry Poons, pink, purple, 2026

$5,288

H 51.19 in W 55.12 in D 1.58 in

Don't Let Yourself Go, contemporary, Joan Mitchell, Larry Poons, pink, purple

Located in Jönköping, SE

This painting began with an idea but as often happens in my work, the idea changed, deepened, and revealed itself through the painting process. “Don’t Let Yourself Go” developed slo...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Nicholas Evans“So Plant, So Animal III” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold, Graphic, Abstract, Neutral), 2022

$1,950

H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in

“So Plant, So Animal III” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold, Graphic, Abstract, Neutral)

By Nicholas Evans

Located in Paris, IDF

Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal III" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic

Anastassia SkoppMany Roses - Impressionistic Painting on Linen Canvas, floral art, 2026

$646

H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 0.79 in

Many Roses - Impressionistic Painting on Linen Canvas, floral art

By Anastassia Skopp

Located in Zofingen, AG

Not every painting begins with a question. Some begin with a brush, a knife, and whatever arrives. Many Roses is exactly that — a painting that happened. Branches form a loose circl...

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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Nicholas Evans“So Plant, So Animal II” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold, Graphic, Abstract, Neutral), 2022

$1,950

H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in

“So Plant, So Animal II” (Animalia, Fuana, Bold, Graphic, Abstract, Neutral)

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic

Christian MöllerOptimism Painting II - acrylic on wood, 2019

$2,500

H 16 in W 16 in D 1 in

Optimism Painting II - acrylic on wood

By Christian Möller

Located in London, GB

Optimism Painting II - acrylic & mixed media on wood panel, 2019 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm mint condition - original and unique piece. Christian Möller...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Mary ChaplinSummer walk in Giverny, semi abstract painting of flowers, 2017

$3,028

H 28.75 in W 45.67 in D 0.79 in

Summer walk in Giverny, semi abstract painting of flowers

By Mary Chaplin

Located in Deddington, GB

Mary Chaplin, Summer walk in Giverny, I have often found inspiration walking through Monet’ s Garden in Giverny in different seasons. I like the way flowers are planted together, har...

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

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Robert Goodnough, 1917-2010"Colors with Gray" acrylic and oil on linen painting by artist Robert Goodnough, 1976-1977

$22,000

H 49.25 in W 49.25 in

"Colors with Gray" acrylic and oil on linen painting by artist Robert Goodnough

By Robert Goodnough, 1917-2010

Located in Boca Raton, FL

"Colors with Gray" acrylic and oil on linen abstract painting by artist Robert Goodnough. Signed "Colors with Gray" goodnough 1976-1977 acrylic + oil goodnough 76' - '77 48 x 48 on b...

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1970s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Marcy RosenblatNight Scroll, 2016

$1,170

H 18.12 in W 18.12 in

Night Scroll

By Marcy Rosenblat

Located in London, GB

Acrylic on linen. The textured appearance of her paintings emanates from the intervention of common household products such as paper towels during the painting process. Marcy Rosen...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Wosene KosrofArk of Words Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Linen, 2025, by Wosene Kosrof, 2025

$16,000

H 22 in W 32 in

Ark of Words Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Linen, 2025, by Wosene Kosrof

By Wosene Kosrof

Located in White Plains, NY

Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Ark of Words' by Ethiopian/American artist Wosene Worke Kosrof, 2025. Acrylic on linen, 22 x 32 in. This colorful abstract painting features p...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

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