Max Presneill

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 

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Triumvirate, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (with catalog)
2015 Emphatic Caprices, TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
2014 Anarchy & Other Things To Think About, University Art Gallery, CSU Stanislaus, CA (with catalog)
2012 The Captain's Tale (BH) OR The Liminal Egyptian, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (with catalog)
2012 The Captain's Tale (New Bedford) - From Mocha to Moby, New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series (with catalog)
2010 Glossolalia and Other Stories, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (with catalog)
2007 Wish List, Freight & Volume, New York City
2007 ANFSCD, La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo, Chihuahua, Mexico
2003 Turschlusspanik, Kontainer Gallery (now Nicodim Gallery), Los Angeles

SELECT RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
ALPTRAUM, RAE Projects, Berlin, Germany
Alone Again Or, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Destination LA, Endpoint Berlin, Berlin Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
MAS Attack #12, San Diego Art Institute, CA

2015
Miami Projects Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL with Durden & Ray
Ghostly Signs, Existential Bodies, Zerre Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
Uncanny, MuzeuMM, Los Angeles, CA
Angels With Dirty Faces, HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria ...