This show opens on Saturday, November 6th from 6-9p.
The Slingluff Gallery
11 West Girard Ave.
Philadelphia, Pa 19123
The Slingluff Gallery: What is "Minor Superior" about?
Mike Maxwell: The show is about the balance of opposites and the symbiotic dance opposites must engage in in order to exist. The show examines the perception of reality and subtle contradictions found in human consciousness.
TSG: How do your subjects help tell the story in your art?
MM: The subjects are the story. The figures act as metaphors that tell my own personal history. The hope is that the viewer find something in the objects that relates to their own existence and can act as a part of their own history.
TSG: What is your most challenging part of being an artist?
TSG: What is the most important lesson you've learned from art that you apply to life?
MM: To spend my time as I see fit and to never allocate that authority to anyone else.
The Slingluff Gallery presents Mike Maxwell, San Diego based artist. Maxwell has built a loyal following with his signature stone-blue faces, gloomy churches, and beautiful windmills. Self-taught and continuously improving in his work, the poetic dreamy scenes examine humanity, conceptuality, genetics and consciousness.
With subtle changes in both theme and process, Maxwell has sharpened his skill providing more depth in his current work. Maxwell’s choice of color is deliberate and with purpose, reflecting a lack of race and ambiguity in the stone-blue faced pieces.
The work has a lot to with his personal re-education and a desire to learn and understand things that are so prevalent in our society but are often forgotten by the masses. Focusing his work around the human experience, themes of religion, sex, and science captivates our attention in these acrylic beauties. Mike’s work has been shown nation wide and over seas at galleries in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Japan, London, and Australia.
Press: Juxtapose, San Diego Union Tribune, City Beat, 944, Color Farenheit, Exit Strategy, Arkitip, Faesthetic
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