The Chicken Dinner, The Box
New Works by Max Yawney
March 29th - May 18th, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29th, 6pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, April 19th, 7pm
Max Yawney's large scale paintings involves the pairing of two disparate images on two separate supports. The two abstract images presented function as elements of a presented situation. Each element has no particular narrative, except as a contributor to the situation. The visual impact is similar to the viewing of a large tree with a bicycle leaning against it. The tree and the bicycle have no relationship to each other in pragmatic terms, however the relationship is formed due to their situation and their implicit beauty in contrast. Yawney's paintings expand our understanding of the complex conversation between objects in our visual world, as well as, our understanding of painting as object.
Yawney's paint handling amply demonstrates this dialogue between the two disparate images using, color, texture, and depth. The painting varies from loose and fluid to structural and composed. Yawney's endless concern is quite like that of a poet working to place individual words with strong sonic, intellectual, and/or textural qualities against one another into an ordered context.
Max Yawney has been painting since the mid 1980's. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.