On Location
On Location: works by Rachel Maxi
On view: June 1- June 30, 2021 on Artsy
The abstract work presented in this exhibition is a sampling of pieces Rachel Maxi created between 2018 - 2021 in several locations including her home studio in Seattle, and artist residencies in Tetouan, Morocco, Playa at Summer Lake, Oregon, and Joshua Tree, California.
Maxi is inspired by nature, seasonal color and light, urban and natural landscapes, urban decay, rust, graffiti, and architecture. She works intuitively: when in the studio, she starts tapping into a work rhythm, letting the line, brush go without looking at anything, just letting the hand guide that line, a sort of meditative automatic drawing. The same with sculpture and collage - pulling things together or apart - carving, and building. She enjoys the puzzle of balancing the various elements in a sculpture or a painting, harmonious and dissonant, dark and light, illusions and real form. In general, her thoughts while creating are often existential, our relationship with our natural and built environments historically, culturally and spiritually.
For twenty years, Maxi worked in the realm of representational painting, but more recently her mode of expression has been abstraction. Color, texture and composition are still central, but the means of expression comes from a more internal place and goes through a new filter, one still attracted to and deeply interested in the light and feel of any environment, but being reassembled with some added psychic and spiritual dimensions - a more subconscious source.
While her representational work still reflected a very abstract compositional quality, it was within the framework of a landscape or rendering of an actual subject. Her interest in the poetry of color, composition and texture are enduring and expansive with the creation of a new vehicle to convey it. It was never about the actual objects painted; they are not the thing, the painting is the thing. Some of this shift sprung from a trauma that occurred in 2015, the subsequent recovery, and the complicated joy of pressing on through darkness. The work expresses a different measure of time, open and nonlinear. Moving in waves, on all fronts, slower and persistent. It’s a fitting and natural approach for her process and work now.
Contact us for more information or to view work in person.
Exhibit online at https://www.artsy.net/asher-grey-gallery
Asher Grey Gallery
info@ashergreygallery.com
310 562 0511
On view: June 1- June 30, 2021 on Artsy
The abstract work presented in this exhibition is a sampling of pieces Rachel Maxi created between 2018 - 2021 in several locations including her home studio in Seattle, and artist residencies in Tetouan, Morocco, Playa at Summer Lake, Oregon, and Joshua Tree, California.
Maxi is inspired by nature, seasonal color and light, urban and natural landscapes, urban decay, rust, graffiti, and architecture. She works intuitively: when in the studio, she starts tapping into a work rhythm, letting the line, brush go without looking at anything, just letting the hand guide that line, a sort of meditative automatic drawing. The same with sculpture and collage - pulling things together or apart - carving, and building. She enjoys the puzzle of balancing the various elements in a sculpture or a painting, harmonious and dissonant, dark and light, illusions and real form. In general, her thoughts while creating are often existential, our relationship with our natural and built environments historically, culturally and spiritually.
For twenty years, Maxi worked in the realm of representational painting, but more recently her mode of expression has been abstraction. Color, texture and composition are still central, but the means of expression comes from a more internal place and goes through a new filter, one still attracted to and deeply interested in the light and feel of any environment, but being reassembled with some added psychic and spiritual dimensions - a more subconscious source.
While her representational work still reflected a very abstract compositional quality, it was within the framework of a landscape or rendering of an actual subject. Her interest in the poetry of color, composition and texture are enduring and expansive with the creation of a new vehicle to convey it. It was never about the actual objects painted; they are not the thing, the painting is the thing. Some of this shift sprung from a trauma that occurred in 2015, the subsequent recovery, and the complicated joy of pressing on through darkness. The work expresses a different measure of time, open and nonlinear. Moving in waves, on all fronts, slower and persistent. It’s a fitting and natural approach for her process and work now.
Contact us for more information or to view work in person.
Exhibit online at https://www.artsy.net/asher-grey-gallery
Asher Grey Gallery
info@ashergreygallery.com
310 562 0511