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

Anastassia Skopp 1"Pink Flowers I" square floral romantic textured painting on linen canvas, 2024

$1,257

H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 0.79 in

"Pink Flowers I" square floral romantic textured painting on linen canvas

By Anastassia Skopp 1

Located in Zofingen, AG

Abstract textured acrylic painting on canvas 80x80x2 cm (31,4 x 31,4 x 0,8 inches). Mixed Media on gallery wrapped canvas. The work is ready to hang. No framing required. The sides o...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Linen

Anastassia SkoppSatori Blooms I - impressionistic painting on linen canvas with 3d roses, 2025

$628

H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 0.79 in

Satori Blooms I - impressionistic painting on linen canvas with 3d roses

By Anastassia Skopp

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being." – Eckhart Tolle Immerse yourself in the vibrant colors and scul...

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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Anastassia SkoppWhite Flowers - green impasto painting on linen canvas with 3d flowers, 2026

$628

H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 0.79 in

White Flowers - green impasto painting on linen canvas with 3d flowers

By Anastassia Skopp

Located in Zofingen, AG

Not everything on this branch is really there. Some leaves are painted thick, textured, catching light from across the room. Others are only shadows — flat, dark shapes with no weigh...

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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Anastassia SkoppMirage - landscape impressionistic painting on linen canvas with red roses, 2025

$1,485

H 23.63 in W 47.25 in D 1.58 in

Mirage - landscape impressionistic painting on linen canvas with red roses

By Anastassia Skopp

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness." — Eckhart Tolle Let your g...

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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Alex Voineaavp_1012 - Colorful Textured Original Contemporary Abstract Painting on Linen, 2024

$7,100

H 38 in W 51 in

avp_1012 - Colorful Textured Original Contemporary Abstract Painting on Linen

By Alex Voinea

Located in Los Angeles, CA

The colorful abstract artworks of Romanian artist Alex Voinea are inspired by experiments with paint poured over vibrating surfaces, such as speakers at full volume. Alex Voinea coll...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Linen

Anastassia Skopp 1"Beautiful Nothing" square impressionistic floral blue painting on canvas, 2024

$2,521

H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in

"Beautiful Nothing" square impressionistic floral blue painting on canvas

By Anastassia Skopp 1

Located in Zofingen, AG

Immerse yourself in the delicate beauty of "Beautiful Nothing," a painting featuring a rose bush against a cool light blue background. Measuring 100x100x4 cm (approximately 39.4x39.4...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Eric FriedmannFall, from the Seasons Series, 2016

$2,800

H 24 in W 18 in

Fall, from the Seasons Series

By Eric Friedmann

Located in New York, NY

Friedmann’s expressive and colorful abstractions elicit an immediacy of painting and the relativity of time. The works in the series suggest a subjective impression of movement, like...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Chalk, Oil, Acrylic

Lana RitterTiger Paradise, 2022

$2,057

H 39.38 in W 27.56 in D 1.97 in

Tiger Paradise

By Lana Ritter

Located in Zofingen, AG

The vivid, expressive abstraction with the tiger portrait. Acrylic colours of ultramarine, light sky blue, pink, magenta, alizarin, yellow ochre, yellow cadmium and fluorescent yello...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Varnish, Acrylic

Anastassia Skopp 1"Wild Roses II" square floral romantic textured painting on linen canvas, 2024

$2,057

H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 0.79 in

"Wild Roses II" square floral romantic textured painting on linen canvas

By Anastassia Skopp 1

Located in Zofingen, AG

Abstract textured acrylic painting on linen,100x100x2 cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches). This unique piece is created using mixed media on a gallery-wrapped linen canvas with a transparent ges...

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2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Eric FriedmannSummer, from the Seasons Series, 2016

$2,800

H 24 in W 18 in

Summer, from the Seasons Series

By Eric Friedmann

Located in New York, NY

Friedmann’s expressive and colorful abstractions elicit an immediacy of painting and the relativity of time. The works in the series suggest a subjective impression of movement, like...

Category

2010s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

Anastassia SkoppGreen Rose Bush - impressionistic painting on canvas with 3d roses, 2025

$628

H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 0.67 in

Green Rose Bush - impressionistic painting on canvas with 3d roses

By Anastassia Skopp

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness." – Eckhart Tolle Let your g...

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2010s Abstract Impressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Anastassia SkoppFloral Whirl I - impressionistic painting on linen canvas with 3d roses, 2025

$628

H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 0.67 in

Floral Whirl I - impressionistic painting on linen canvas with 3d roses

By Anastassia Skopp

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness." – Eckhart Tolle Let your g...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

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