VISUAL ART BY TIM MAXWELL

ALIENATION MACHINES

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STATEMENT:

This new body of work is the result of going back to school at 40 to study Biochemistry, then realizing I needed to draw, as it is my only true passion. Each drawing is sketched out in pencil then I laboriously draw unruled lines which create a very specific temporal space with an infinite regress.  Shadows creep in the creases evoking little figures toiling their way through a labyrinth. Each of these architectural "constructs" are the result of the implementation of igeometry in which most start with a very simple vanishing point that is multiplied as the drawing recedes to create an unsettling and alienating atmosphere.

Tim Maxwell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1978 and lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from Penn State University in 2002 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004. His drawings are influenced by Celtic illuminated manuscripts, medieval depictions of the Last Judgment, geometry, human ornamentation, and the self-help quality of punk and hardcore music. He has had solo shows at Marvelli, Derek Eller, and RARE Gallery and has been included in group exhibitions at White Columns and Massimo Audiello Inc. in New York, as well as Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Art on Paper Magazine. His work will also be on view at Gibson Contemporary from July 18 to September 23.