Nicole Maloof - Contemporary Artist 

Nicole Maloof is a Washington, DC based artist and recently graduated from American University with her MFA in Studio Art. She graduated from Boston College in 2019 with degrees in both Studio Art and Psychology. Her art practice engages themes surrounding the abject body, seduction, and perception. Maloof was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was four years old. As someone with an autoimmune disease she is constantly aware of the inner workings of the body. She hopes to bring this level of awareness to the viewer through material exploration. She often creates work that straddles a line between repulsion and seduction necessary to mystify the viewer into self-reflection.

Maloof is materially driven; she is dependent on investigation and uses conventional art materials including plaster, resin and gold enamel paint, in combination with used medical supplies, hard candy and Jell-O in order to explore the way manipulation can alter the read of an object.  Her alteration and transformation of materials mimics the transformation that occurs within her own body when synthetic insulin is administered and sugar is absorbed from the blood stream into the cells.