Contemporary American artist Steve Maloney's new series:
1-800GadgetsandGizmosArt.Com, captures the visual overload now integral to the human experience. Maloney thrills to making art that embraces and reflects the times in which he lives. His work is dynamic, high-speed, and forever happening, not unlike the salesmen who used to hawk Veg-O-Matics  under leaky tents at county fairs.

“Those guys just amazed me,” Maloney recalls.  “I wish I could chop and talk like they did”

He gets his chance with 1-800GadgetsandGizmosArt.Com. Drawing inspiration from Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Villeglé, and Andy Warhol, Maloney pushes his art to the edge.  Stenciled words of double entendre combine with oil and acrylic, oil stick, collaged images, resin, and ripped and tattered poster scattered like paper scraps. Huge point-of-sale, shrink-wrapped packaging become wildfire, with splashes of color, clipped media and graffiti commentary creating bigger-than-life Pop Art mixed media works on board and canvas.