malaika favorite:
meditations
February 4-27, 2024
FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING: Feb 5, FROM 6 - 9PM
ARTICULATE ARTIST TALK: SUNDAY, Feb 9, AT 4PM.
NORMAL GALLERY HOURS: TUE - SUN, 12PM - 6PM
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Malaika Favorite works in a variety of different media, allowing her flexibility based on the nature and purpose of the work. In recent years, Favorite has experimented with an assortment of surface treatments and forms to create eye-catching two-dimensional works that move beyond the typical square or rectangular frame of a single piece. Within a single series, she may employ canvas, wood, metal, and more to create an elaborate assortment of shapes.
This is a series of works focusing on meditation and the importance of “taking a moment”. Art affords the viewer an opportunity to pause and reflect by entering a visual space that removes the eye from the present reality and invites a new and unusual space that can relax, enlighten and inform the mind.
The paintings represented in this show reflect the need to escape, and a place to escape to. For example, CHICKEN ON THE TREADMILL is about us in our daily struggle to live and survive in a chaotic world. SITTING NAKED IN THE RAIN reflects the need to sit and cry, be washed, cleansed, and allow nature to refresh the mind and body.
In our endless pursuit to build and rebuild our world, we dream up new and better ways to use space and re-dream what the people before us built. We are RED STICK DREAMERS. We seldom have time to pause and reflect on what we have. That is why God suggested Sunday, or for some Saturday, a day to stop all activity and have a GOLDEN HOUR.
Feel free to read the art according to your own reality. The above reflects my vision but art is always open to interpretation. - Favorite
Favorite’s artwork has been featured in Samella Lewis’ “African American Art and Artist” and “Art: African American;” Bernardine B. Proctor’s “Black Art in Louisiana,” and “The St. James Guide to Black Artists,” by Thomas Riggs. Her works can be found in a number of notable collections including that of Absolut Vodka, The Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, GA), The Alexandria Museum of Art (Alexandria, LA), The Coca Cola Company (Atlanta, GA), and The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH).
This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from Tom Richard, and Michael G. Williams. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during regular gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from February 4 - 27, 2024.