Recently winner of the Pizzuti Award as Best in Show at the Ohio Art League’s 2011 Spring Juried Exhibition, Malcolm Baroway did not begin showing professionally until 2001. Since then his oils have been placed in more than 100 collections (see Patronage) from coast to coast. One piece, And the Last Child Leaves, hangs in Ohio State University’s Longaberger Alumni House along with works by alumni George Bellows and Roy Lichtenstein.
As a youth, Malcolm was clearly talented as an artist (He was accepted to New York City’s pre-professional High School of Music and Art) but followed writing instead which led to a career in public relations and advertising. He began to paint again in the 1990s, and since the millennium has had seven solo shows in his hometown, Columbus, Ohio, including Ohio State’s Faculty Club Gallery, the Roy G Biv Gallery, and five at the prestigious Sharon Weiss Gallery. His work also is carried at Boulder’s SmithKlein Gallery, one of the premier art venues in Colorado, where he had his first solo show in January 2010. Malcolm tries to do one solo show at least every two years. In 2008, it was in Asheville, North Carolina’s Studio B. His work also has been featured on the international blog “All the Best by Ronda Carmen.” His major influences, he says, “are all the genres that appeared in Europe from the 1880s through the 1930s, particularly Post-Impressionism.”
Baroway has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and studied art at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Columbus College of Art and Design. He is a native of Flushing, New York and is married to the former Dolores (Dee) Renfro of Newark, New Jersey. They reside at 421 Brookside Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43209. Between them, as a blended family, they have had nine children, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Malcolm’s three children, Scott, Holly, and Tammy all live with their families in Denver , Colorado.
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Malcolm did not begin painting until his 60s and in 2001 entered his first juried competitions. When Morning Walk won the Michael Orr Gallery award at the Ohio Art League and Temptation, New Orleans was juried into both the League show and the Ohio State Fair, he was off and running. Limited by right ulnar nerve surgery and rehabilitation for three years, for a while, he painted left handed. He is now 74 and has painted right-handed again since 2007. His most recent award was Best in Show among 254 artworks (The Pizzuti Award) forThe Conversation at the 2011 Spring Juried Competition of the Ohio Art League. It is now in a private collection.
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