Adam Maloney

Adam's Sounds

"Illegal Ninja Moves From the Government"

"Air Man vs. Walkie Talkie Man Odalisque"

About Adam
My name is Adam Maloney. I draw and I do audio installations. Much of what I do can be described as guerilla art. Currently, I am located in southwest Ohio. Besides drawing on paper and canvas, I often work on everyday found surfaces. I usually use cheap retail store bought materials, basically anything that I can get my hands on is utilized. The work tends to concern terrorism and classic video games. It also often concerns a lusty romantic pursuit of women, positively objectifying women as beautiful wholesale products in the form of odalisques. Frenzied and archaic two-dimensional compositions express simple themes and ideas.

I very commonly give my drawings away for free. Such pieces are given away as a social service, in an effort to subtly enrich people's everyday lives. This personalized method of aesthetic promotion works to enrich society on a direct, level. The patron is then in total control of the composition, hopefully encouraging them to explore the readily accessible aesthetics of contemporary mass media society. If a composition is for sale, the price is always reasonably cheap or the buyers can name their own price.

Sound interests me very much. I was introduced to sound in 2008. The next place to communicate my interests in sex, terrorism, and nineteen eighties video games is sound. Sounds are intended to modify spaces as audio installations. I am very interested in creating an atmosphere of danger with sound.
Something that is great about sound is that sound is free. I can provide sounds for my audience without charging patrons any money at all. Like giving drawings away for free, making sound free also enriches humanity for free. My sound compositions can be shared very easily for free through the Internet, which can allow me to communicate with a very large audience.

I prefer to exhibit in public spaces because exhibitions and installations aren?t expected to be experienced in those spaces. What I want is to reach a universal audience and not limit the breadth of my audience to the art world community. Art should be understood to be a necessity, rather than a luxury. Like Robert Rauschenberg, I subscribe to the notion that art, culture, and science are united in a single philosophy of life.

January 2002, I was in a near fatal car accident. I suffered a traumatic brain injury and I was comatose for ten days. My traumatic brain injury gave me weakness and contracture in my left arm, hand, leg and foot. Following surgeries and extensive therapy, I am now using a cane to walk. In addition to high anxiety and depression, I have been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder. Self-induced art therapy has been the key factor in my recovery thus far, giving me a means of both dealing with my disability, venting my anxiety, and the ability to make a meaningful contribution to society.