Maloney’s “1-800GadgetsAndGizmosArt” is a mixed-media series of paintings and sculptural works, inspired by the raging consumerism and salesmanship that are so pervasive in American culture, will be on display for customers and art aficionados alike during a two-week exhibition at the store in an otherwise predictable retail mall.
Maloney goes further with his series, transforming the point-of-sale shrink-wrapped primary-colored packaging into artistic “wildfire” through splashes of color, clipped media and graffiti commentary. Bigger-than-life Pop Art paintings rendered on board and canvas are combined with giant objects – a dented and defaced car door here, a blue-wigged mannequin there, and a lime green Go Duster, that staple of late-night television better known as the “Motorized Fun and Easy Way To Dust,” placed in just in the right spot.