Description: Martin Maloney is today recognized as among Britain's most engaging artists. This first book on the artist illustrates his recent works, Conversation Pieces, a series of large lively and colorful paintings of elastic, cartoon-like figures -- compositions that depict aspects of gay life in London with freshness and irony, offering a real view into transgressive life in the English capital. His portraits of small groups of men -- two or three at most -- in unposed, imperfect moments with unshaved beards and awkward smiles have the buoyancy and exuberance now characterized as "neurotic realism." As Maloney writes, "These paintings come from the love of the work of other artists.... I have learned a lot from looking at Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Thomas Ruff."

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