Asante Malik

ASANTE MALIK

Dissected images of Garfield, Goofy, and Schroeder appear in a quasi-Cubist pastiche, like glitching graphics struggling to appear through landscapes rife with nostalgia

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Atlanta-based artist Asante Malik channels generational angst through rich, bold and energetic canvases.

With a kind of mark making reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism, Malik foregrounds hardline figuration, nodding to the history of 1980s street graffiti and Pop Art.

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Catch Me If You Can, 2021

Acrylic, aerosol, oil stick on canvas

Reminiscent of George Condo's Condo’s darkly comical and pop culture driven work, Asante Malik's latest work offers a kind of modernist distortion within a postmodernist world. In a series of chaotic landscapes, the tensions of which easily mirror our own anxious moment, this series digs into lost childhood, disconnection and the disarray that our modern experience