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.