"ARCADIAN FOREST"
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18 artworks by Malu Ribeiro (Selection)
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Vida de Areia, Gente de Barro (barro refers to mud but also to clay/ceramics) - I like to write the[...]
Vida de Areia, Gente de Barro (barro refers to mud but also to clay/ceramics) - I like to write the words in Portuguese too, because the words are so sonorous. In my double life as single person and mother, between Brooklyn and O Porto, and so many other things of life that bring duplicity, this album puts together works spanning decades but all connected in theme and earthy colors or materials. This gallery expresses a contrast, a dichotomy, not dissimilar to my double life. The dichotomy of the ephemeral quality of life, and how simultaneously, time seems to come to a halt, or at least, come to a slow unravelling in the lull of an afternoon or dusk, the stupor of heat or alcoholism, etc ... My narratives involve characters who become "salt sculptures', or clay pots, frozen in time, while most things around them are shifting, perceptually or moving ... So we've both the instability or temporality of the environment in contrast to the perennial, almost eternal quality of quintessential characters which seem to emerge from the past, which I still observe alive and living in the paths of my travels. The landscapes become movements or ruins, but the people become clay pots or still-life/s.
I'm attempting to describe the ephemeral while holding on to moments which perhaps never quite existed ... a nostalgia for a time that never was ... as the Portuguese saying goes, "the past never passes", the past lives in the present, and therefore, future ... a narrative of people who have little material comfort or wealth, but maintain a dignified presence, more alive than most, because they're in the now, and now ... My spaces may be made of water or slippery sand, shifting perspectives, but my people are made of clay or rusty metal, like pots, they're vessels of history, of time, of human experience ... Cubism and distortions assist me in incorporating such elements of existentialism, it's a if they help me create a form of magical realism in visual form ...
I'm attempting to describe the ephemeral while holding on to moments which perhaps never quite existed ... a nostalgia for a time that never was ... as the Portuguese saying goes, "the past never passes", the past lives in the present, and therefore, future ... a narrative of people who have little material comfort or wealth, but maintain a dignified presence, more alive than most, because they're in the now, and now ... My spaces may be made of water or slippery sand, shifting perspectives, but my people are made of clay or rusty metal, like pots, they're vessels of history, of time, of human experience ... Cubism and distortions assist me in incorporating such elements of existentialism, it's a if they help me create a form of magical realism in visual form ...
"OBIDOS"
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"The Pig of Campanha / O Porco de Campanha"
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"Once upon a Time"
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"On the Way to the Village (Peasant Woman)"
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"TIMES"
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"RAIN on CAIS DAS PEDRAS"
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"ROSTRO BOLIVIA"
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"O Pranto e a Alegria/ Sorrow and Gaiety"
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"Adeus no Cais (Goodbye on the Pier)"
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"O MOSTEIRO AZUL (The Blue Monastery)"
Acrylic on Paper | 30x22 in
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"Women of Nazaré/ Mulheres de Nazaré"
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"Nazaré"
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"Falling"
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"Arches - Arcos"
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"Life of Sand, House of Clay"
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"Arches of Time / Arcos do Tempo"
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"Mexican Village"
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Biography
Malu Ribeiro is a Brazilian born US-Swiss citizen who has lived in nine different countries since a tender age, including a long residence in the US. She began formal art training attending assiduously the atelier of the Argentinian surrealist painter/printmaker A. Castro Couso during high school in Vigo, Galicia. During those 4 years, she participated in group exhibitions with his atelier at the Cultural Center of Caixa de Galicia, beginning to show at 17 years of age. After moving to the US, she pursued a BFA in Theater at URI. Years later, after living in Paris for three years, she returned and completed an MFA in Print-making at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She also became a NY State Certified Visual Arts & Theater teacher; taught high school, pre-college and college. Malu lived most of her life in NY where she reared mostly by herself her two daughters. Malu received honors and awards in juried competitions, including participation at the Pratt Fine Arts Symposium organized by sculptor Prof. Jillian Jagger, and guest speaker Laura Hopman (then, curator of the Depart. of Drawing & Paper Arts at MOMA). She received Honorable Mention at the New York/New England Talent competition organized by University of Massachusetts. She also received a Merit Award at the International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, by art historian and critic, Prof. Donald Kuspit. Malu taught for many years, and was only able to return full-time to art in 2011, when she founded her own nomadic arts center, Galeria Eslabon, through which she curated many events, including the pop-up Eslabon Spring Arts Salon at the unique Firehouse Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2014. In 2015 through 2017, she attended an MA program in History of Art & Criticism at SBU. She has exhibited internationally in several solo and group exhibits; her work is in private collections in NY and MD (US), also in Italy, Greece, UK, and Portugal among others. Recently, Malu participated in Art Fair Carnavalesquewith Van der Plas Gallery, NY (2020); KUNST2021, with Galeria Zero at the Lite-Haus Cultural Project & Center, Berlin; and Contemporary Art Week art fair, Madrid (Feb. 2022). Currently preparing for ALL YOU NEED IS ART, Contemporary Art Festival, Mar.23-27th, Lisbon, PT.
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1972
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary American Artists
Influences
Education
2015 - 2017
MA Art History & Criticism
Stony Brook,
NY,
United States
2001 - 2003
NY State Board Teacher Certifications in Visual Arts & Theater
NYC,
NY,
United States
1998 - 1996
MFA in Print-making (Painting & Ceramics side focus)
Brooklyn,
NY,
United States
1990 - 1987
BFA in Theater
Kingston,
RI,
United States
1987 - 1984
INTRODUCTION to Fine Arts & Painting (Atelier A. Castro Couso; teenage years)
Vigo,
Galicia,
Spain
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Added Apr 7, 2022
AVA ART FESTIVAL OSAKA
Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Center (ENOCO)
Tuesday
26
April
2022
Sunday
1
May
2022
Art show, festival at cultural center in Osaka, Japan
Added Apr 7, 2022
CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL LISBON
CORDOARIA NACIONAL, Lisbon
Wednesday
23
March
2022
Wednesday
27
April
2022
ART FAIR
Added Sep 13, 2021
MADRID CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK
Madrid, Spain
Wednesday
23
February
2022
Sunday
27
February
2022
Join us for refreshingly meaningful affordable art fair during Madrid Contemporary Art Week. See you there!
Added Sep 13, 2021
KUNST BERLIN - Galeria Zero in Berlin - art fair
LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum, Mareschstraße, Berlin, Germany
Friday
15
October
2021
Wednesday
20
October
2021
Added Sep 13, 2021
Art Fair Carnavalesque
Van Der Plas Gallery, Orchard Street, New York, NY, USA
Wednesday
15
January
2020
Friday
31
January
2020
Group show at chill Van der Plas Gallery, Manhattan.
Added Sep 16, 2019
BIOGRAPHY
Malu Ribeiro is a Brazilian born US-Swiss painter and art-maker who spent over 30 yrs of her life in the US, and lived in 8 other countries, speaks several languages. Her formal visual arts training began in Vigo, Spain, at the age of 16, attending assiduously the atelier of Argentinian surrealist, Alberto Castro Couso. At 19 she moved to the US obtaining a BFA in Theater at URI. After living in Paris for some years she returned and completed an MFA at Pratt Institute, NY. She participated in numerous juried events and group exhibitions, receiving the honor to exhibit of one of her mural printmaking installations at Pratt Institute's FA Dean’s office; was selected for a juried FA Symposium in NY, organised by the sculptor professor Jillian Jagger, with juror Donald Kuspit, and participation among others, by Laura Hopman, then, curator of the Drawing and Paper Arts Department at MOMA; she also participated in the NY/New England Talent annual national competition at the University of Massachusetts. earning honorable mention; and later, a merit award at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, at a juried international competition. Her work is in collections in Italy, UK, Brazil, US etc. More recently, she was part of an MA program at SBU in Art History and Criticism. She lives currently between Porto, PT and Brooklyn, NY, involved in international exhibitions.
Reviews and comments
Olá Malu, Estive olhando para o vosso trabalho e, por alguns momentos, fiquei paralisado com o traço marcante, vigoroso, de cores puras e com muita intensidade, pareceu-me que havia entrado, particularmente, no teu mundo. - Sérgio Oliveira(S.Alves), um brasileiro que vive em Lisboa a 20 anos.
Un travail où se mêle cohérence chromatique et une certaine douceur romantique...bravo à vous pour votre travail et l’ensemble de votre production.
Bonjour Malu! Une belle maîtrise de la couleur et une composition chaleureuse et prégnante! Très beau! Belle continuation à vous!
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