Russell Maltz, S.P. / B.Y.W. #117 (Needle), 2017, Enamel and acrylic on pegboard and wood, 3 pieces, 112 x 4.5 x 7 inches / 285 x 12 x 18 cm, #RM50
Russell Maltz, S.P. / B.Y.W. #117 (Needle) (detail), 2017, Enamel and acrylic on pegboard and wood, 3 pieces, 112 x 4.5 x 7 inches / 285 x 12 x 18 cm, #RM50
Russell Maltz, S.P. / Blue + Blue #117 (Needle), 2017, Enamel and acrylic on wood, 3 pieces, 126 x 4.25 x 7 inches / 320 x 11 x 18 cm, #RM52
Russell Maltz, S.P. / Blue + Blue #117 (Needle) (detail), 2017, Enamel and acrylic on wood, 3 pieces, 126 x 4.25 x 7 inches / 320 x 11 x 18 cm, #RM52
Russell Maltz, S.P. / Blue + White #117 (Needle), 2017, Enamel and acrylic on wood, 3 pieces, 115 x 4.75 x 7 inches / 292 x 12 x 18 cm, #RM51
Russell Maltz, S.P. / Blue + White #117 (Needle) (detail), 2017, Enamel and acrylic on wood, 3 pieces, 115 x 4.75 x 7 inches / 292 x 12 x 18 cm, #RM51
Russell Maltz, S.P. / R #117 (Needle), 2017, Acrylic and polyurethane on wood, 2 pieces, 96 x 1.5 x 7 inches / 244 x 4 x 18 cm, #RM53
Russell Maltz, S.P. / R #117 (Needle) (detail), 2017, Acrylic and polyurethane on wood, 2 pieces, 96 x 1.5 x 7 inches / 244 x 4 x 18 cm, #RM53
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #315N, Needle Series, 2015, Day-Glo enamel on 3 wood pieces suspended from a galvanized nail, 73 x 2 x 6 inches approximately, #RM35
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #315N, Needle Series (side view), 2015, Day-Glo enamel on 3 wood pieces suspended from a galvanized nail, 73 x 2 x 6 inches approximately, #RM35
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #415N, Needle Series, 2015, Day-Glo enamel on 3 wood pieces suspended from a galvanized nail, 48 x 2 x 6 inches approximately, #RM36
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #415N, Needle Series (detail), 2015, Day-Glo enamel on 3 wood pieces suspended from a galvanized nail, 48 x 2 x 6 inches approximately, #RM36
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #115, 2015, DayGlo enamel on three plywood plates suspended from a steel post bracket, 67.5 x 67.5 x 6 inches / 171 x 171 x 15 cm, #RM32
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #213, 2013, Day-Glo enamel on 3 plywood plates suspended from a steel post bracket, 67.5 x 67.5 x 7 inches, #RM45
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #113, 2013, Day-Glo enamel on 3 plywood plates suspended from a steel post bracket, 67.5 x 67.5 x 7 inches, #RM46
Russell Maltz, S.P. / SCR-17 #313, 2013, Day-Glo enamel on 4 plywood plates suspended from a steel post bracket, 62 x 62 x 7 inches, #RM44
Russell Maltz, S.P. / BK #113, 2013, Enamel on 3 plywood plates suspended from a steel post bracket, 67 x 67 x 7 inches, #RM43
Russell Maltz, S.P./AL #115, 2015, Aluminum enamel on 3 plywood panels, metal pin, 12.5 x 12 x 4 inches, #RM28
Russell Maltz, S.P./R #215, 2015, Acrylic on 3 plywood plates suspended from a galvanized nail, 17 x 16 x 3.5 inches, #RM38
Russell Maltz, S.P./W #314, 2014, White acrylic on 3 plywood panels, metal pin, 19.25 x 16.75 x 4 inches, #RM29
Russell Maltz, Ball Park Diamond XXXVIII, 2006, Polyurethane and enamel on 2 glass plates, metal pin, 24 x 24 inches approximately, #RM42
Russell Maltz, Ball Park Diamond XXVII-D, 2006, Polyurethane and enamel on 3 glass plates, metal pin, 24 x 24 inches approximately, #RM03
Russell Maltz, Ball Park Diamond XXXVI, 2006, Polyurethane and enamel on 2 glass plates, metal pin, 24 x 24 inches approximately, #RM01
Russell Maltz, Ball Park Diamond XXXIX, 2006, Polyurethane and enamel on 3 glass plates, metal pin, 24 x 24 inches approximately, #RM02
Russell Maltz, Ball Park XXV, 1989, Polyurethane and oil based enamel on 2 pieces of wire glass, steel pin, 56 x 13 x 6 inches, #RM15
Russell Maltz, Ball Park V, 1984, Polyurethane and oil based enamel on 10 sheets of plywood, 96 x 79 x 21 inches, #RM16
Russell Maltz, Ball Park V (side view), 1984, Polyurethane and oil based enamel on 10 sheets of plywood, 96 x 79 x 21 inches, #RM16
Russell Maltz, Ball Park XLI, 2012, Industrial latex paint on cinder blocks, wooden pallet, 35 x 42 x 42 inches, #RM09
Russell Maltz, STACK - Safety Yellow, 1985/1992 Traffic enamel on 6 plywood sheets, 48 x 109 x 18 inches / 122 x 277 x 46 cm, #RM54
Russell Maltz, SCR-17 Floor Stack, 2015, DayGlo enamel on ten plywood plates, 36 x 58 x 7 inches / 91 x 147 x 18 cm, #RM30
Russell Maltz: Painted/Stacked Oaxaca, 2012, Dayglo yellow paint on white PVC pipe, Dimensions variable, Installation view in MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca, Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO), Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012
Russell Maltz: Painted/Stacked Oaxaca, 2012, Dayglo yellow paint on white PVC pipe, Dimensions variable, Installation view in MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca, Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO), Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012
Russell Maltz, BC #414, 2014, Mixed media collage on paper, framed, 26.5 x 31 inches, 32 x 36 inches framed, #RM25
Russell, Maltz, BC #214, 2014, Mixed media collage on paper, framed, 30.75 x 27 inches, 36 x 32 inches framed, #RM22
Russell Maltz, BC #314, 2014, Mixed media collage on paper, framed, 17.5 x 12 inches, 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches framed, #RM24
Russell Maltz, B-Dwg. #213, 2013, Charcoal on paper, framed, 37 x 39 inches, 41 x 43 inches framed, #RM23
Russell Maltz, B/W #1, 1978, Oil on 2 MDF panels, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, #RM20
Russell Maltz, B/W #1 (side view), 1978, Oil on 2 MDF panels, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, #RM20
Russell Maltz, Blue/B #1, 1978, Oil on 2 MDF panels, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, #RM17
Russell Maltz, Blue/B #1 (side view), 1978, Oil on 2 MDF panels, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, #RM17
Russell Maltz, GR/W #3, 1978, Oil and graphite on 2 plywood panels, 9.5 x 7 inches, #RM19
Russell Maltz, GR/W #3 (side view), 1978, Oil and graphite on 2 plywood panels, 9.5 x 7 inches, #RM19
Russell Maltz, Blue/W #1, 1978, Oil on 2 found wood panels, 8.75 x 7 inches, #RM18
Russell Maltz, Blue/W #1 (side view), 1978, Oil on 2 found wood panels, 8.75 x 7 inches, #RM18
Biography
Russell Maltz (b. 1952, Brooklyn, NY; lives New York, NY) is one of the leading reductive artists of his generation. Over the past 40 years, he has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Israel, Mexico, and the United States. The first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of his work was mounted by the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken in Germany in 2017, and was accompanied by a 230-page book published by Kerber Verlag.
At the gallery Maltz was recently included in the group exhibition On Paper in summer 2016. He also presented new work in the two-person exhibition Plywood, alongside artist Melissa Kretschmer, in 2015, and mounted the solo survey exhibition The Ball Park Series, 1977-2012 in 2012. That same year he produced a major installation entitled Painted/Stacked Oaxaca at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, part of our survey exhibition MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca in Mexico.
His additional recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Michael Sturm (Stuttgart Germany), Galerie Wenger (Zurich, Switzerland), Alejandra von Hartz Gallery (Miami, FL), Galleri Weinberger (Copenhagen, Denmark), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), Galerie Schlegl (Zurich, Switzerland), and the Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota, FL).
Maltz’s work is included in many public and private collections worldwide, including The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA), Museum Moderner Kunst (Ottendorf, Germany), and the Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia). His work has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and Village Voice, among many others.
Maltz serves on the Advisory Board of Critical Practices Inc. (CPI), which supports the emergence and development of new practices within the field of cultural production. CPI was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Overview
Russell Maltz produces work in a broad array of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography. Working both indoors and out, Maltz commonly uses new or repurposed commercial building materials, such as plywood, lumber, metal wall studs, cinder blocks, glass, PVC pipes, and enamel paint, which he gingerly manipulates and sites in response to the dynamics of a given environment. His work often appears raw and industrial upon first impression, a striking contrast against the seemingly casual nature of its arrangement. The works deliberately eliminate any separation between the objects and the space, as well as any distance between the artwork and the viewer.
About his work over the past four decades, Maltz states, “I have an affinity towards the found object. It is clear to me that paint is a material that is applied to another material. It is also clear that my works are not hung on the wall, but rather installed on the wall.” He continues, “I explore the temporal aspects of presence rather than the static construct of the specific physical properties of a site. I have found that if I stay out of my own way and truly follow my value for being present, the work follows.”
Gallery Exhibitions
Twenty, June 24 - September 30, 2023
Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, April 9 - July 30, 2022
Untitled (Summer), July 19 - August 24, 2019
Position Matters, curated by Saul Ostrow, July 7 – August 11, 2018
Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Suspended, September 9 – October 28, 2017
On Paper, July 9 – August 13, 2016
Melissa Kretschmer & Russell Maltz: Plywood, July 11 – August 15, 2015
Neither Here nor There but Anywhere and Everywhere, June 22 – August 11, 2012
Russell Maltz: The Ball Park Series, 1977-2012, March 2 – April 21, 2012
Web Site
www.russellmaltz.com
Our Artsy Page
www.artsy.net/minus-space/artist/russell-maltz
Social Media
Instagram