REDACT 095 Painting

Max Presneill b. 1963. English lives and works in Los Angeles, USA The usually large scale abstract paintings of Max Presneill employ a vibrant and often jarring field of color, embedded with marks, scrawls, erasures and blockages, to question the act of painting and it's relationship to issues of existential intent and obligation, thus leaning towards both a statement of individual presence (and thus a resistance to his own mortality) as much as an oblique political statement. The marks themselves, sourcing from graffiti, art history, accident and design, showcase a myriad of bravura methods of applying paint, in a move and countermove game of suppression and control. Solo exhibitions include The Captain’s Tale at the New Bedford Art Museum, Wish List at Freight & Volume, NYC, Turschlusspanik at Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, as well as inclusion in group exhibitions at Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden, Berlin Art Projects, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna,  UCity Art Museum, Guangzhou, China, and in both the Yokohama Triennial and 13th Istanbul Biennial