User:DannyMalboeuf

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Danny Malboeuf (b. 1960) is a visual artist and musician from Statesville, North Carolina. As kolaboy he is a member of the breedArt collective and a Senior Member of deviantART, where two of his paintings have received the site’s top award. His musical project is Cowgirl in the Snow.

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[edit] Art

Danny Malboeuf is a self-trained artist/illustrator.[1][2] Working mainly in acrylics, he paints in an allegorical figurative style that combines surrealist, symbolist and pre-Raphaelite sensibilities[1], often in conjunction with subtle pop-culture references.[2] Malboeuf counts music and literature as his greatest sources of inspiration; specific artistic influences include the painters Arnold Boecklin, John Martin, Ferdinand Khnopff, and Leon Frédéric.[1] While many of his paintings deal with mythological and religious themes, the frequent incorporation of sci-fi and pop-culture imagery from the artist's youth establishes tentative connections with movements such as pop surrealism. He has a strong bias towards painting female subjects, "perhaps because the essence of female is more poetic, and the male more prosaic."[3]


Malboeuf is represented by The Queen’s Gallery and Art Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a member of the international Surreal Visionary Art Collective. In the past twenty years, his work has been exhibited in numerous solo and joint exhibitions, and his paintings can now be found in private collections in Europe, America, Asia and Australia.[4]


Malboeuf's penchant for dark themes and forbidden mixtures can be disquieting or even controversial. “If you've never contemplated the odd, spellbinding paintings by Charlotte original Danny Malboeuf, now's your chance to catch up. An uneasy feeling mixed with awe at the artist's painterly skill is not unusual with these acrylics. Holy Water and Consecration of St. Joan both deliver a biting admixture of religion and sexuality.”[5] Another critique reads "This artist's idiosyncratic slice of surrealism, dark and Gothic, is imbued with a strong dose of high-techno metallica in a strange quasi-religious vein that incites uneasy thoughts. If Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft rose from the dead and co-wrote a series of stories — and Max Ernst collaborated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti using Giger's Alien as a prototype to illustrate these collaborative tales — the result might resemble Malboueuf's series of images. [...] Malboeuf's intensely symbolic paintings do occasionally depict a sunnier mood, [...] but more common is a decaying, bittersweet morbidity — futuristic pre-Rapahelite paintings corrupted by the forces of the darkside. There's a repellent attraction to this work that's compelling."[2]


Online, where he uses the screen-name kolaboy, Malboeuf is a member of the breedArt collective; he is also among the few to hold Senior Member status at deviantART, where his online gallery has had over 140 000 page-views and is subscribed to by over 2000 members.[6] He has twice won the site’s top Daily Deviation award, the most recent being accompanied by the editorial observation "One of dA's finest Surreal artists, kolaboy never ceases to amaze."[7]


Three of Malboeuf’s paintings have been published in Mostro, an Italian-language literary/art journal, with one gracing the cover.[8] His paintings have also been featured on the cover of OLOGY magazine, with the editorial comment "Speaking of things that are sweet, check out this issue’s cover artist, Danny Malboeuf. Take a good look, folks, because long after we are all dead, people will still be talking about his work."[9] The same outlet has also showcased some of Malboeuf's writing.[10] His artwork is also featured on the cover of Bandersnatch, a hardcover anthology of horror stories.[11] Three of his paintings are reproduced in the literary/arts journal Antithesis Common [12], and he has also provided an invited piece for the Pornsaints website.[13]


Solo exhibitions (incomplete; 1990-1995)

  • 1990 First Union National Bank, Statesville, NC.
  • 1995 Beauties of Provenient Grace, Queens Gallery and Art Center, Charlotte, NC.
  • 1995 Exposure of Conviction, Rowe Art Gallery, Univ. North Carolina at Charlotte, NC.

Awards (incomplete; 1994-1997)

  • 1994-5 Honorable Mentions in three juried exhibitions (WV & GA, 1994; SC, 1995)
  • 1996 Cash merit award, 24th Annual Competition for North Carolina artists, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC.
  • 1997 Grant, Arts & Science Council of Charlotte, NC, to complete four paintings on the subject of martyrdom.


[edit] Music

A singer/songwriter and instrumentalist, Malboeuf’s solo music project is Cowgirl in the Snow; it straddles the indie, twee, and shoegaze genres, releasing candy-coated dream pop songs in the spirit of Sarah Records and 4AD. Musical influences include Ultra Vivid Scene and The Records. A review reads: “Cowgirl in the Snow makes addictive lo-fi indie pop, with guitars drenched in effects … Twee pop at its finest.”[14] Danny Malboeuf's brother David is the musician D.M. Frankin Kane, and his father is the bluegrass fiddler "Red" Tommy Malboeuf.[15]


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Artist's statement at the beinArt International Surreal Art Collective; retrieved 26 January 2008
  2. ^ a b c Brown, L.L. (1996?) Tales of the Darkside, (citation details required! — extensive review of 27-painting Malboeuf exhibition, Charlotte, NC).
  3. ^ Artist comment, 20 January 2008; retrieved 26 January 2008
  4. ^ Artist's biography at Saatchi Online; retrieved 26 January 2008.
  5. ^ Brown, L.L. (2002) New art: the real and the invented, Charlotte Creative Loafing, Arts Feature 17 April 2002; retrieved 26 January 2008.
  6. ^ dA Gallery Stats; retrieved 27 January 2008
  7. ^ Daily Deviation, 24 June 2003; Daily Deviation, 04 January 2008.
  8. ^ Mostro Numero 17, Inverno 2005, cover & pp. 40-41.
  9. ^ OLOGY Issue 15, 10 October 2006
  10. ^ Malboeuf, D. (2006) When shadows were more than shadows, OLOGY Issue 15. Retrieved 26 January 2008.
  11. ^ Comment 6 September 2007 from editor Jack M. Haringa; retrieved 26 January 2008.
  12. ^ Malboeuf, D. (2005) Antithesis Common Issue 2 (Winter) p.30. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
  13. ^ Painting dedicated to Ashley Fires. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
  14. ^ Editorial review at CNET Download.com. Retrieved 26 January 2008.
  15. ^ Thomson, J. (2007) Indie hipster gives songs a reason to exist, goTriad review 01 October 2007; retrieved 26 January 2008.

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