 Ricky Maldonado was born in Los Angeles, California, in
1953 to a large, close family. He carries Apache and Yaqui blood. Maldonado worked at
highly creative but non-artistic jobs. After many years he realized that what he really
wanted to do was to explore his fascination with clay. He learned and perfected the basic
skills of coil building and decorating large pots in the Native American fashion at
community art classes in late 1991. He was soon given a one-man show by the city of
Burbank in 1993. He showed 83 pieces. After viewing the show, the Director of the
Garth Clark Gallery urged Maldonado to enter the Otis/Parsons Institutes of Art to further
study ceramics. Through these studies he widened his artistic range and further developed
technically.Maldonado lives in Los Angeles where he has his full-time
studio. Maldonado's pots are all hand coiled, slip decorated, burnished and
then glazed with thousands of dots using a sable brush.
Maldonado has received many awards
including NCECA's Emerging Artists Award for 2003 and has just
received a Judges award in the First Taiwan
Ceramic Biennale 2004.
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Maldonado has been represented by
- Gallery 500
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Dunn/Mehler Gallery
Half Moon Bay, CA
del Mano Gallery
Pasadena, CA
Running Ridge Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Artful Style
Hermosa Beach, CA
del Mano Gallery
West Los Angeles, CA
Earthen Artworks
Los Angeles, CA
Armstrong Gallery
Pomona, CA
- The Xiem Clay Center
- Pasadena, CA
- Fedinets Gallery
Kansas City, Kansas
- Ferrin Gallery
Maine
Chiaroscuro Gallery
Chicago, IL
Charles Borman Gallery
Montrose, CA
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