Current Exhibit
Connections: The Junctures in Our Lives
Watercolors and Mixed Media Works by Wendy Caldwell Maloney
November 9, 2021 - January 23, 2022
Watercolors and Mixed Media Works by Wendy Caldwell Maloney
November 9, 2021 - January 23, 2022
Alabaster, 2021, watercolor.
Artist's Statement
This exhibit is about making connections. I use the grid — loosely defined as “a network of intersecting lines” — to visually describe the places where our lives overlap, where individual paths cross, intersect, come together, and share space. Through the simple intersection of lines and shapes, or in the way that ideas can be shared and explored, it is in these places of connection, that the best in life happens.
A painter with a child’s heart, I begin every day with the expectation that I will find something beautiful. I continually scan my surroundings for interesting shapes, light, contrast, color, and textures. Nature is my most trusted muse, though not always for its conventional beauty; while I am awed by the near-perfect symmetry of a thousand-petaled flower, I am equally excited by the visual impact of a fractured tree limb or the riot of color in decaying foliage. I use my digital camera to focus closely on a subject, and to record information too complex to remember.
As a watercolorist, the works for which I am most recognized are my intricate paintings of beach stones from the coast of New England. It is there where I fell in love with the way rock fractures into grid-like patterns — a geological phenomenon called “blocking”, which became the foundation for this body of work.
About the Artist
Wendy Caldwell Maloney is a watercolorist who works out of her home studio in Snyder, NY. After receiving a BFA in Art and Design from Alfred University, she returned to Buffalo and worked for a decade in the pre-press industry. In 1991 she started her own business, Current Design, serving the WNY business community for two decades as a graphic designer, typographer, and illustrator. Returning to the fine arts in 2001, she studied with renowned watercolorist Margaret M. Martin.
Caldwell Maloney's work is included in public and private collections in the Northeastern United States, Canada, Italy, and Mexico. Regionally, she is represented in the Corporate Collections of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Oishei Children’s Hospital, and Hospice Buffalo, and has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo shows including, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Kenan Center, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, WNY Artists Group Gallery, Benjamin Art Gallery, The Buffalo History Museum, Daemen College, The Carnegie Art Center, Pausa Art House, Sisti Gallery North, The Birge Mansion, and The Junior League of Buffalo’s Decorator’s Show House.
This exhibit is about making connections. I use the grid — loosely defined as “a network of intersecting lines” — to visually describe the places where our lives overlap, where individual paths cross, intersect, come together, and share space. Through the simple intersection of lines and shapes, or in the way that ideas can be shared and explored, it is in these places of connection, that the best in life happens.
A painter with a child’s heart, I begin every day with the expectation that I will find something beautiful. I continually scan my surroundings for interesting shapes, light, contrast, color, and textures. Nature is my most trusted muse, though not always for its conventional beauty; while I am awed by the near-perfect symmetry of a thousand-petaled flower, I am equally excited by the visual impact of a fractured tree limb or the riot of color in decaying foliage. I use my digital camera to focus closely on a subject, and to record information too complex to remember.
As a watercolorist, the works for which I am most recognized are my intricate paintings of beach stones from the coast of New England. It is there where I fell in love with the way rock fractures into grid-like patterns — a geological phenomenon called “blocking”, which became the foundation for this body of work.
About the Artist
Wendy Caldwell Maloney is a watercolorist who works out of her home studio in Snyder, NY. After receiving a BFA in Art and Design from Alfred University, she returned to Buffalo and worked for a decade in the pre-press industry. In 1991 she started her own business, Current Design, serving the WNY business community for two decades as a graphic designer, typographer, and illustrator. Returning to the fine arts in 2001, she studied with renowned watercolorist Margaret M. Martin.
Caldwell Maloney's work is included in public and private collections in the Northeastern United States, Canada, Italy, and Mexico. Regionally, she is represented in the Corporate Collections of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Oishei Children’s Hospital, and Hospice Buffalo, and has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo shows including, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Kenan Center, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, WNY Artists Group Gallery, Benjamin Art Gallery, The Buffalo History Museum, Daemen College, The Carnegie Art Center, Pausa Art House, Sisti Gallery North, The Birge Mansion, and The Junior League of Buffalo’s Decorator’s Show House.