Opening Reception | Animal Crackers | Jim Malone

Date and Time

• Friday, Feb 7, 2025  5:30pm - 7:30pm

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Opening Reception
Artspace111
Thursday, February 6, 2025
5:30 - 7:30pm

Artspace111 is proud to present the latest exhibition Animal Crackers, featuring mixed media
artwork by Jim Malone. Malone’s knowledge of the Texas desert as a draftsman, depicts
celestial and terrestrial landscapes working intuitively to find threads of meaning to link imagery
that reveal a pattern. This exhibition dazzles the viewer with bright pops of neon color akin to
the big Texas sky, peppered with wild horses, whimsical birds and land critters. Malone’s ode to
the Texan desert speaks to what we can and can’t live without. In a world full of excess, Malone
calls us back to the basics of survival, humility and love. His mixed media artworks contain
graphite, spray paint, gold leaf and sparkle stars from local craft shops. He blends the sky and
rock formations, while hyper imposing cut out animals into the work, which give his images an
approachable, but surreal flare. Malone is refreshingly unpretentious and works from a flow
state instead of being forced into an analytical frame of reference. In this way, the fitting title
Animal Crackers brings light and brevity into the conversation of art. Using simple motifs of the desert as language transcends and is communicated into something one can only feel when
verbal expression falls short.