EYE CANDY

After Midnight in Artist Nikki Maloof’s Unsettling Menagerie


Nikki Maloof may be based in Brooklyn, but the painter tends to fill her canvases with flora, fauna, and humanlike creatures not often encountered in the borough — slinking tigers and monkeys, rendered in lurid yellows and acidic greens. Things have taken a slightly darker turn, though, in “After Midnight,” her show now up at Jack Hanley Gallery. It’s one final, nocturnal testament to figurative painting’s comeback in 2016. From creeping snails to all manner of moths, get a look inside her latest menagerie, here.

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“Loner” by Nikki Maloof.

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“A Lost Tiger” by Nikki Maloof.

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“A Pale Flickering” by Nikki Maloof.

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“Mother and Child” by Nikki Maloof.

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“Starry Night” by Nikki Maloof.

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“Night Anxiety” by Nikki Maloof.

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“Shadow Vanitas” by Nikki Maloof.