Chalda Maloff-Digital Mixed Media

I studied Computer Science in the early 1970s, when it was considered by many to be a quirky field of endeavor with limited practical application. I was told that my graduate degree in this subject would yield me even less chance of scratching out a living than my undergraduate degree in Art History. It took me decades to bring together in a serious way my two passions of art and technology. During the interim, I worked in oils, acrylics, aquatint, and clay. The facility I gained with the various mediums served me well, preparing me for a time when I would be using computer software that allowed me to switch from one simulated medium to another with the click of a mouse. I have exhibited my art throughout North and South America. Recent juried shows include Honorable Mention in the Beecher Digital Art Competition at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Guerilla Painter Award in the Visual Arts Society of Texas 37th Annual Juried Show. Recent solo exhibits have been at the Houston Jung Center in Texas and Morris Graves Museum of Art in California. I hold a doctorate in Human Ecology, and I live in Austin, Texas.

Statement
I paint to express and share my sense of wonder. My process, sometimes intellectual and sometimes intuitive, consists of working and reworking shapes and colors towards an expressive whole that will have the power to evoke emotion, sensuality, and spirituality. My art reflects my abiding optimism and faith in the order of our world.

My intent is to create artworks that not only elicit an immediate response, but also that will reveal more of themselves gradually over time. I use several techniques to disclose by degrees previously unobserved elements, to reframe and visually redraw the surface, and hopefully to bring about reevaluation of previous conclusions. I invite the viewer to leisurely perusals, with an openness to surprise, delight, and a kindling of the imagination.

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"Angel on my Shoulder" 2010
pigment ink on paper, face mounted to museum grade acrylic 30 x 30 $800.00

"Shifting Foundation" 2011
museum wrapped pigment canvas 30 x 30 $800.00

"Anticipation of False Happenings"  2011
pigment ink on paper, face mounted to museum grade acrylic 30 x 30 $800.00

"Sabbath" 2009
museum wrapped pigment canvas 30 x 30 $800.00