I will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from February to the end of April with UNM for the Fredrick Hammersley Visiting Artist program. Included in this residency is an Artist Talk at the Albuquerque Museum on February 20th, and an open studio event on April 24th (open to the public).
On view through November 4th. Nicodim Upstairs PRESS RELEASE
“Half Asleep”, 2024, oil on linen, 44 x 38 inches.
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Quickies, Larry Madrigal’s fifth solo exhibition with Nicodim, emerged from a spontaneous approach to painting, in which he embraced the urgency and unpredictability of the creative process.
“Each piece was impulsively started, with no second- guessing. The rule was to follow through with whatever was initiated, like a quickie. No time to shower, chew gum, or think about how it’s going—it’s just going.”
Initially envisioned as a series of playful, erotic “quickie” paintings, the project took on a more complex narrative as life’s inevitable chaos intervened. Themes of sex and struggle, tension and release, permeate the exhibition, reflecting the artist’s journey through what he describes as an impossible vacation—the pressure to escape, the futility of it, and the moments of relief that come in between.
“Quickies became more than just fun sex paintings. It’s about how life interrupts everything, including pleasure, and how we carry on despite it. The quickie moments are scattered throughout a stressful time— brief respites from reality. I look to Jan Steen a lot. He hung in there with Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Frans Hals. He was the people’s painter. His name became synonymous with chaotic household scenes—kind of like a Seinfeld moment. I hope my work captures that same sense of a ‘Madrigal moment’—chaos, mixed with earnest reflection, and a bit of absurdity.”
In Quickies, Madrigal’s signature tragic little humors are ever-present with a blend of vulnerability and wit shining through. He unapologetically gives us candid scenes of the human experience, where imperfections and raw emotions are embraced. Each canvas is a snapshot of the spaces where life doesn’t go as planned, where beauty and frustration, sex and struggle all coexist in fleeting moments of brutal honesty.
- Nicodim Gallery
European Debut Show 2023
I have officially joined the Nicodim Gallery Team! For more information visit click here.
Scattered Daydream is open at Nicodim Gallery Upstairs from September 10 - October 17 2020.
“New Beginnings”, 2020, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.
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New Beginnings... is an exploration of the fluid relationship between artist and subject, fear and desire, in which every gesture represents an ecstatic and terrifying first step. Featuring works by Hayley Barker, Alex Becerra, Amy Bessone, Razvan Boar, Polly Borland, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Nilbar Gures, Namio Harukawa, Larry Madrigal, Simphiwe Ndzube, Katherina Olschbaur, Umar Rashid, and Robert Yarber.
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My MFA thesis exhibition, Tightrope, highlights the meaningful and precarious nature of everyday life. From the title, the work in the exhibition recognizes the delicate balance necessary when satisfying the demands of social, personal, or artistic expectations. Drawn primarily from the experience of starting a family, higher education, and the pursuit of artistry, my paintings explore balance as a practical theme, as well as the way in which tensions in beliefs, emotions and opinions manifest themselves in the mundane. I see the commonplace as an arena for sacred reflection on the complex nature of being, and an opportunity to join the longstanding subject of genre painting.
I was selected and awarded a second grant by The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in support of my MFA studies at Arizona State University! I am thrilled and honored to be supported with such generosity. I am very much looking forward to a productive upcoming year!
On view
November 21 – November 29, 2018
Monday through Saturday, 9am–8pm
Sunday, 12pm–8pm
Closing Reception: Wednesday, November 28, 6:30 p.m.
I am extremely honored to be shortlisted as one of the 40 finalists by this prestigious group of jurors and to show at the New York Academy of Art! For more info: https://nyaa.edu/2018-xl-catlin-art-prize-exhibition/
I recently received news that I was selected and awarded a grant by The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation! I am grateful for their support and generosity to artist around the world since 1955.
I am happy to announce that I will begin my MFA studies at Arizona State University on August 17th 2017. If you have not visited the ASU Grant Street Studios in downtown Phoenix, you must! I'm excited to work in such an amazing space. Below is a link to a map of the graduate studios.
If you happen to be in Tucson, today is the last day of their exhibition, Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art. It was an honor to have exhibited with giants like Picasso, Goya, Warhol, Max Ernst, and many more.
