Artist Spotlight: Nikki Maloof

02.05.17 — Staff

Brooklyn-based artist Nikki Maloof explores loneliness and other human emotions through cartoonish creatures and colours. See more of her semi-narrative paintings below.

Green Kitty Memento

Night Anxiety

A Lost Tiger

Mother and Child

A Pale Flickering

Starry Night

Moon Altar 1

Moon Altar 2

Moon Altar 3

Moon Altar 4

Moon Altar I-IV at the Independent, Spring 2017

Nikki Maloof’s Website

Nikki Maloof on Instagram

Nikki Maloof at Jack Hanley

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