Biography

David Malek is an American artist living and working in Poitiers, a small medieval city in western France. Born in 1977, he grew up in Illinois. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and obtained his MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City in 2006.

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Malek’s work has been shown in galleries and institutions in Europe and the USA, such as White Columns, New York; Martos Gallery, New York; Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris; Triple V, Paris; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Vedovi Gallery, Brussels; La Salle de Bains, Lyon; and Ribordy Thetaz, Geneva; and Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva.

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The public collections Frac MECA in Bordeaux and Frac-Artothèque Limousin in Limoges have collected his paintings.

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​​Process 

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Painting is a machine for the replication of feeling. 

Using an economy of means, the process of painting serves to reproduce the emotions associated with sensation, rather than representing them. 

The images come from multiple sources: films, art history, architectural elements, light and forms that I observe while riding my racing bicyle, graphics, space exploration, and the flux of imagery that one sees in the pictorial economy of the internet. Seeing and reproducing images is a way to re-appropriate and re-live feelings. It is an experimental process that helps satisfy my curiosity about the world.  

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Availability
 

Paintings are available for sale and commission. Please contact me via email or Instagram to begin a fruitful discussion.