Tag: Larry Madrigal

With scraped knees, tangled sheets, and yesterday’s discarded clothes strewn across the floor, Larry Madrigal’s new evocative paintings at Nicodim showcase the artist at his strongest. In moments where his fluid and textured style strives to move beyond the sexual indifference and disarray that plague contemporary life, he asks his audience: Would you stay? Could we remain in the eternally cluttered, humid rooms he depicts when love grows lackluster? If the audience can look past his sometimes clumsy attempts at humor, they will discover the insight of inverting the fable “clean sheets tell no tales” — for in this work, dirty sheets reveal the truth.