Michael Maloney (art dealer)

[9][4] Maloney represented and exhibited a wide range of internationally established and then-emerging artists, including John Baldessari,[10] Jean Michel Basquiat,[11] Travis Collinson,[12] Jeff Colson,[13] Donald Judd,[14] Roy Lichtenstein,[15] Robert Mapplethorpe,[16] Kim McCarty,[17] Robert Motherwell,[1] Joel Otterson,[18] Ed Ruscha,[19] Malick Sidibé[20] and Andy Warhol.

[21][3] The two galleries and their exhibitions were written about in many publications, including the Los Angeles Times,[22][23] Art in America,[18] Artillery,[24] LA Weekly,[25] and Huffington Post,[26] among others.

[11][15][28][38][16][3] In early 1991, like many others in Santa Monica, Maloney closed his gallery in the face of a prolonged economic downturn and art market slump in order to pursue private dealing.

"[39][19][40] The 2013 exhibition, "Fire in Her Belly," featured sociopolitical work centered on dissent and censorship by artists including ACT UP, Andres Serrano, Annie Sprinkle, Ai Weiwei, and David Wojnarowicz.

[41][42] Other well-covered exhibitions included: Joel Otterson's thrift-shop object assemblages ("Chandelier Queer," 2013) and decorative glass and sewn works ("Needleworks," 2015);[2][43][18][44] Jeff Colson's trompe l’oeil sculpture of an overflowing garage (Roll Up, 2014)[13] and absurdist ode to paper (Stacks, 2015);[7] the spare, oblique portraits of Travis Collinson and wet-into-wet watercolors of Kim McCarty;[45][26][17] Millie Wilson's interrogation of gender stereotypes through vernacular, found photographs, presented in small light boxes;[46] and a 40-year survey of Malick Sidibé's matter-of-fact, black-and-white portraits in the wake of Mali's independence in 1960.