About the Artist:
Malik Muhammad Tricoche b.(1996) is a Puerto Rican-American artist raised in New York. In 2016 he studied painting and sculpture at the Academia Di Belle Arte in Venice, Italy and in 2018 graduated from the Boston University School of Visual Arts inspiring the very first SVA Character Award representing the values and ideals of the school. In 2019 he founded Guayaba Gallery in Union City, NJ— going on to curate and exhibit shows like “Guayaba01” and “6FT FROM YOU” while working with the Themendous sculpture team on installations for the 2019 MET Gala, NYC fashion week and the Museum of Sex. In 2022 he featured his first solo exhibition with Chashama in Chelsea, New York.
About the work:
If my artistic practice could be described as a functional machine it would be a loom weaving psychology, physically history and fantasy to form a map. This map would be an access point and activation center for the audience and myself to enter a reflective space; questioning the universal truths that are patterned throughout the world. Visual meditations on an These truths are composed into poetries inspired by the iconography of spiritual art. As a mixed race person my influences are an amalgamation of cultural traditions spanning indigenous Caribbean Taínos, European and Yoruba peoples. This has marked my existence to be a great synthesizer of these identities in order to understand my own history and that of the environments that shape me. My work has always drawn heavily on the non-physical and the occult. Throughout my career I have retained the notion that painting is a ritual to which I receive spiritual guidance, circumnavigating the tides of mental health. Each visual code a tarot like divination with erotic color compositions that untangle identity. Often the expressions of the bodies are promiscuous in their ambiguity of emotions; sometimes reimagined histories are depicted as allegorical scenes of contorted hybrids - the barriers of space and body dissolve to create a nebulous abstract-figuration that can be read from multiple directions. Much like we exist between many states, my work reflects the human experience that is of a pendulum swinging between the physical and energetic, the masculine and feminine.
Curriculum Vitale
Malik Muhammad Tricoche
b.1996
Lives and works in New York City. Citizen of the universe.
Education
2018 BFA - Boston University
2016 Boston University- Accademia di Belli Arti, Venice, Italy
Awards
2018 College of Fine Arts Excellence Award, Boston, MA
2014 College of Fine Arts Performance Award
2014 Edna B. Lutz Scholarship
2014 Joesph Mack Achievement Award, Huntington, NY
2014 South Bay Art Association, 1st prize, Bellport, NY
Exhibitions
2022 Dancing for Rain, Chashama, New York, NY
2021 Romanticismo & Discplina, ICI Gallery, Venice Italy
2020 The Artists Studio, ICI Gallery, Venice, Italy
2020 Past & Present, Tumi Gallery, Passaic, NJ
2020 6FT FROM YOU, Guayaba Gallery, Union City, NJ
2019 Guayaba01, Guayaba Gallery, Union City, NJ
2018 Continuum, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Era Una, Galley 5, Boston, MA
2017 Image/Object, Gallery 5, Boston, MA
2017 @Sloan, Sloan House, Brookline, MA
2017 Fall Showcase, Stone Gallery, Boston MA
2014 @Sloan, Sloan House, Brookline, MA
2014 South Bay Art Association Suffolk County Showcase, Bellport, NY
2014 Long Islands Best, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY