Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Puerto Rican
Sofía Maldonado-Suárez is a Puerto Rican artist of Cuban descent, from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has spent most of her career focused on derelict spaces, constructing a poetic experience of colorful abstractions, within uninhabited buildings. Maldonado's urban walkabouts inspired a desire to transform the environment with color by painting abandoned structures using a paint sprayer. Her career is focused on public art and color field painting. The artist also has a dynamic studio practice as a painter and digital illustrator. She develops a sense of community through workshops and versatile community engagement projects. Collaborations with musicians and underground subcultures are an integral part of her artistic practice and aesthetic.
Maldonado's characteristic style is recognizable for its Caribbean palette and roots in muralismo. She deconstructs organic forms in order to explore color fields in her work. She represents feminine energy in her expressive outlines and sensually themed drawings. The artist’s colorful landscapes extended in space indicate the passage of time and the ephemerality of architectural structures. Maldonado's highly saturated, almost fluorescent, tropical palette reflects her animated personality and creates optical vibrations due to her energetic marks and distinctive application of color.
Throughout her career, Maldonado’s illustrations of femininity have been defiant and present the pleasure associated with the female experience in detail. A deep awareness of spatial deconstruction and what has been established are manifested in her architectural color interventions. As an artist she reflects her colonial reality in site-specific projects such as Kalaña, exhibited at the Whitney Museum Biennial, NY (2017). In this project, as in her massive abstract murals, she employs color as a signifier of abandonment, rather than as a beautifying agent. Maldonado explores the spectrum of the feminine body by challenging cultural myths and social constructs from the outlooks of hip hop, trap music, and reggaeton.
Maldonado has earned a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico and an MFA from Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York. She has participated in select exhibitions: PST:LA/LA at MOLAA, California (2017), La Bienal de Asunción, Paraguay (2014), CAAM, Canary Islands (2013), Museum of Art and Design, NY (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (2012), Museo del Barrio Biennial, NY (2011) and the Havana Biennial, Cuba, and Real Arts Public, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2008). She was awarded the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, LMCC, (NY) in 2012.to
3
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
9,980
2,753
1,376
1,373
Artist: Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Aguas Muertas III
By Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Las aguas muertas de vida y sueños. Mudarme a Madrid en medio de una pandemia, ha sido una especie de ensueño. Los viajes a las Islas Baleares y Canarias me ayudar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Aguas Muertas IV
By Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Las aguas muertas de vida y sueños. Mudarme a Madrid en medio de una pandemia, ha sido una especie de ensueño. Los viajes a las Islas Baleares y Canarias me ayudar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Tajogaite Volcán
By Sofia Maldonado Suarez
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A series of paintings created during an art residency in La Gomera, Canary Islands (2021).
Keywords: abstract, small format
Artist Biography:
Sofía Maldonado-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Related Items
"Racine" Abstract landscape painting
By Wafaa Mezouar
Located in East Quogue, NY
Textural abstract landscape painting by Moroccan artist Wafaa Mezouar. Earth tones, Acrylic, mixed media on linen.
Size: 40 x 40 inches. Offered unframed.
Exhibitions include: Co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic
“So Plant, So Animal II” (Graphic, Bold, Abstract, Neutral, Framed Painting)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal II" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic
$1,950
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
"Geostructure II" Abstract, Geometric, Colors, Primary Shapes, Acrylic
By Franklin Jonas
Located in Detroit, MI
"Geostructure II" is an intensely colorful painting of the primary shapes of the circle, square, and triangle. Though the shapes are repetitive their mixed juxtapositions and the creative use of color moves the eye around the canvas with constant interest. This painting is an extraordinary example of Franklin Jonas...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
"Untitled 4" Abstract Acrylic on linen Painting 32
x46
inch by Hossam Dirar
By Hossam Dirar
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4" Abstract Acrylic on linen Painting 32'x46' inch by Hossam Dirar
Acrylic on linen canvas
CHAOS
This project is a representation of the life around me right now. All t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
$7,250
H 32 in W 46 in D 1 in
"Ectype" (abstract, movement, dye, oil, red, pink, brown, antique linen)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
ECTYPE
2024
Paris, France
The painting features a textured, abstract composition on a brown canvas. The central area is dominated by a vibrant, chaotic mix of colors, including reds...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Dye, Oil, Acrylic
$400
H 9.45 in W 7.49 in D 0.79 in
"Jardin Des Plantes" (Graphic, Black, Blue, Outdoor, Landscape, Sky, Trees)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
JARDIN DES PLANTES
2024, PARIS
Inspired by the artist's relationship to "Jardin Des Plantes", located in the 5th arrondissements of Paris, France, this original landscape depicts th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Dye, Acrylic, Linen
$3,250
H 45.67 in W 35.04 in D 0.79 in
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
by Robert Bonaparte, Acrylic on Linen
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 25 inch x 24 inch painting is an acrylic on linen abstract work painted by Robert Bonaparte. Done in a minimalist style, Bonaparte utilizes a limited color palette and incorpora...
Category
1980s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
H 37 in W 29 in D 1.25 in
Salt Ponds 1, Large Scale Modern Geometric Abstract Landscape with Pink
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Salt Ponds 1, Large Scale Modern Geometric Abstract Landscape with Pink
A bright and colorful monumental scale abstract interpretation of the Bay Area salt...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
H 72 in W 52 in D 1.5 in
Dawn at Merzouga (L
Aurore a Merzouga) - Abstract landscape oil painting
By Wafaa Mezouar
Located in East Quogue, NY
Stunning signed abstract landscape painting by Moroccan artist Wafaa Mezouar. Acrylic paint and gold leaf on canvas.
Size 52 x 48 inches. Offered unframed,
Exhibitions include: C...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Harvest and Heartland,
by Noelle McAlinden, Acrylic Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this painting by Noelle McAlinden, the square format brightly colored, abstract landscape painting is an interpretation of fields and homeland, harvest and source. The Northern Ir...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Linen
$1,157 Sale Price
37% Off
H 24.8 in W 24.8 in D 1.57 in
Shaped Raised #1
By Stuart Bigley
Located in Germantown, NY
This is one in a series of abstract paintings in which the shape of the canvas and the color palette were integral to structure of the composition of the paintings. The painting is b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
“So Plant, So Animal III” (Black
White, Graphic, Bold, Abstract, Neutral)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
Bold yet delicately portrayed, "So Plant, So Animal III" is an abstract piece framed to perfection, offering a timeless neutral color palette. The central theme captures the essence ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sofia Maldonado Suarez Art
Materials
Linen, Wood, India Ink, Acrylic
$1,950
H 25.79 in W 21.26 in D 1.38 in
Sofia Maldonado Suarez art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Sofia Maldonado Suarez art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Sofia Maldonado Suarez in acrylic paint, fabric, linen and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Sofia Maldonado Suarez art, so small editions measuring 19 inches across are available. Sofia Maldonado Suarez art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,500 and tops out at $1,500, while the average work can sell for $1,500.