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Woman in NYC Shirt Applying for United States Citizenship, With Help From a Volunteer by Malayka Gormally
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Woman in NYC Shirt Applying for United States Citizenship, With Help From a Volunteer by Malayka Gormally
  • Type:  Original Art
  • Medium:  Paintings > Mixed Media
  • Style:  Figurative
  • Subject:  Portraits
  • Year:  2019
  • Size:  48.0 x 64.0 cm
  • Ready to hang:  No
  • Frame:  No
  • Signed:  Yes, on verso
  • Materials:  Ink, watercolor, and gouache on handmade paper made in India from recycled clothing.
48.0 x 64.0 cm

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Malayka Gormally is a visual artist, activist and curator known for her portraits of protestors and immigrant women and children.

Malayka’s reconstructed scenes of demonstrators encapsulate the raw energy and essence of counter-culture movements.

Malayka is less interested in making political statements and more interested in highlighting the genuine humanity in each of her subjects.

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Malayka Gormally
Malayka Gormally is a visual artist, activist and curator who is widely celebrated for her figurative portrait paintings and drawings. Born Berkeley, California during the American civil rights movement, Malayka’s portfolio is a penetrating exploration of connection and conflict between people of disparate races, generations, and political beliefs. The artist, however, is less interested in making political statements and more interested in highlighting the genuine humanity in each of her subjects.

Malayka Gormally’s Artistic Practice

Inspired by her own experience and observation of political strife and protests in the US, Malayka reconstructs scenes of demonstrators that encapsulate the raw essence of counter-culture movements. A stark and direct comment on white supremacy and the far-right, Malayka uses her art as a means of commenting on the problems facing today’s society. Malayka’s female portraits focus on immigrant women applying for United States citizenship. These emotive and abstracted depictions counteract the media’s tendency to present immigrants as statistics rather than human beings with feelings, aspirations and hope.

Studies, Exhibitions & Accolades

Malayka completed a Bachelor of Arts at The Evergreen State College after studying at UC Davis, Swarthmore College, and the University of Oregon. Malayka’s work is included in the City of Seattle Portable Works Collection, the Port of Seattle (SeaTac airport) Collection, and the City of Bellevue and the City of Kent (WA) Collections. Of late, her work was in a two-person exhibition at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum (Iowa, 2019). One of her portrait paintings was shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition in London. In 2017, the artist received a 4Culture Art Projects Grant and, in 2020, was also awarded a public art contract.
Kathryn Roberts

The insider Kathryn Roberts says:

Viewing Malayka’s paintings is like having permission to eavesdrop on conversations between generations and cultures as they share an intimate moment. The multiple overlapping layers remind me of the many types of human contact that continuously transpire each day but provide nothing more than a fleeting glimpse of others. Somehow, the apparent interaction and closeness of the subjects to one another in Malayka’s paintings make me feel connected to them, linking friends and strangers on a profound level.

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