Max Wade
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This abstract artwork features a composition of muted tones and gestural brushstrokes. The central form, a large, amorphous shape, is rendered in shades of gray, offset by splashes of yellow and black paintwork along the edges. The overall impression is one of fragmentation and layering, with the integration of collage elements adding to the work's textural and visual complexity. The artist's style appears to be a blend of abstract expressionism and collage, creating a contemplative and visually compelling piece that suggests themes of memory, impermanence, and the ambiguity of perception. ...
Max Wade
Often working from sketches of his travels and everyday surroundings, Max Wade reduces these sketches to their critical forms and negative space and transforms them into paintings. In this way, Wade's drawings are enlarged, rotated, and distorted, and the motifs are simplified, allowing the works to depict a layered imaginary landscape where plains interchange and motifs darken to become ambiguous. The paintings become as if alive, with a sense of rhythm, physicality, and energy. ...