Author: Matt Maldre

Art that people can wear around the gallery to encourage talking about art. Once you wear the shirt you take on the personality of that artwork. 5’7″ x 2′ x 2′ t-shirts, puffy paint, hangers, wood, hardware, laserprintThis artwork has…

Handbuilding assignment to combine two pinchpots. A golden screw holds the two parts together. 4″ Stoneware, hardwareSale for this artwork is negotiable

The last painting I did in college. A play on flat areas and 3-d creating an eerie mood. Just a fun overall painting. 18 x 24″ acrylic on canvasThis artwork is in the collection of Jake Veness

balance, precariousness 12.5″ x 13.5″ x 2.5″ golf clubs, wood, string, paperSale for this artwork is negotiable

4″ x 19.5″ x 10″ street sign, construction horseSale for this artwork is negotiable

Positioned by the exit of the gallery, visitors can humorously rid the visions of the artwork left in their eyes by the artwork they had just seen. This is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the notion that certain artwork can have…

Some shall stand some shall fall. 4′ x 2′ x 2′ potatoes, stoneware, dirtThis artwork no longer exists. However, it can be recreated.

Done for ACCO’s One to One program to promote their products to small office store owners. This sheet humorously compares the DayTimer Planner to a human brain. Design and illustration by me. Front of sheet Back of sheet Close up…

General Electric point of sale piece for ACE Hardware and True Value stores. This handy piece has information that will help the customer when shopping for fluorscent lightbulbs. There is also a halogen chart that I did for GE.

A playful balance between Beuys the warm with Warhol the cold. The chalkboard, a tool used by Beuys with cold and inhuman computer printouts, something Warhol would have liked. The wax prints are warmed up (a la Beuys). The poem…

What would happen if Jackson Pollock fought James Dean? A play on positive and negative spaces. Famous bad-boy (negative) figures have been idolized (positive) in American culture. Here Pollock, the action painter, takes on the action by “punching out” the…

The structure in the photo is transparent. The photo of the skull is straightforward. The skull itself is a form of structure. The clear medium of the photo transparency underscores how this structure is clear and understood. The drawing on…

Rodin’s figures have a very live real feeling. This painting takes the three-dimesionality of the figure and portrays it onto a two-dimensional surface. But then the objectness is brought back by the thick stretchers, steel fencing, and plastic wrap. 9…

A balance and contrast between what’s inside and outside. The log is carved into, but the bright colors painted inside pop out. The rebar is on the ouside, instead of inside. The plastic on the outside is breaking up to…

Part of the log series around 1′ wood, carpet, nails, screws, metal, wire, wax, plasticSale for this artwork is negotiable

Guest artist Steve Murakishi visited our class for a critique one day in Drawing 1 at Illinois Wesleyan University. I did a drawing on wood featuring dancers and ravers, and then I did another drawing on newsprint of old fashion…

part of the log series 8.5″ x 5.75″ x 2.5″ wood, laserprint, screwsSale for this artwork is negotiable

Rhythm of time and materials. Wax everchanging. Wax sealing and preserving. Painted color figures dance. Old fashion newspaper clipping sealed. 2′ x 2′ acrylic, wax, plastic wrap, photocopies, woodSale for this artwork is negotiable

The world-renouned chef at Illinois Wesleyan University once cooked for Queen Elizabeth. This logo is for his programs with IWU alumni.

An assignment to do something with mosaics. Most people kept it to two dimensions. I thought it would be interesting to create a three-dimensional cube with windows featuring transparencies of trees. The trees break up the view of what’s inside…

hands, tools of creation forming a rhythmic balance in the composition 18 x 24″ lithography print on paper, plastic, spray paintSale for this artwork is negotiable

From a series on dance and movement. 3′ x 2′ oil pastel, ink, metal, newsprintSale for this artwork is negotiable

14″ x 6″ x 4″ scrap metal, roseSale for this artwork is negotiable

Drawers warm up and practice their craft by doodling on paper. With sculpture it should be no different. Occasionally, it is good to create free-form sculptures with different materials to practice and extend your knowledge of materials. This will help…

A class project at IWU to design a book cover, I did Darkness at Noon, a book about the Stalin prisons. The illustration is done by me with oil pastels. Cover:

This logo appears on all printed materials related to Illinois Wesleyan University Student Senate, including all events sponsored by this group.

An assignment to depict the word “underbelly.” Here is a coal miner from the underbelly of the earth. And he’s also got a “belly.” Materials are fitting for the subject matter, driveway sealer and aluminum foil. 3′ x 2′ oil…

Print done from a wood cut made with a powergrinder. The rough medium fits the subject matter. It was later pointed out to me by Thomas Orr, that this figure would probably have been a new arrival at the Concentration…

Assignment to combine three specific paintings. (I’m being too lazy to look them up right now) 2′ x 3′ acrylic on canvasSale for this artwork is negotiable