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Fridman Gallery is honored to announce Will Maxen’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Born in Waterbury, CT (1993) and based in Houston, TX, and Baton Rouge, LA, Maxen creates dreamlike, atmospheric paintings that explore belonging and movement in both literal and metaphorical spaces through the layering of thin oil and acrylic washes.
Watch as We Float features a new series of 14 paintings examining ephemerality and durability of memory. Maxen draws from traditions of landscape painting and contemporary figuration to create abstract fields of rich color and translucent bodies, recontextualizing and renegotiating the relationship between figure and ground.
Created in proximity to the Mississippi River, the paintings refrain a subtle motif of water as a metaphor for personal and historical vulnerability, human ego, and the complexities of selfhood. Water is simultaneously a carrier and a cleanser, a presence and a void, a conduit channeling the emotional…
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Fridman Gallery is honored to announce Will Maxen’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Born in Waterbury, CT (1993) and based in Houston, TX, and Baton Rouge, LA, Maxen creates dreamlike, atmospheric paintings that explore belonging and movement in both literal and metaphorical spaces through the layering of thin oil and acrylic washes.
Watch as We Float features a new series of 14 paintings examining ephemerality and durability of memory. Maxen draws from traditions of landscape painting and contemporary figuration to create abstract fields of rich color and translucent bodies, recontextualizing and renegotiating the relationship between figure and ground.
Created in proximity to the Mississippi River, the paintings refrain a subtle motif of water as a metaphor for personal and historical vulnerability, human ego, and the complexities of selfhood. Water is simultaneously a carrier and a cleanser, a presence and a void, a conduit channeling the emotional…
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