مايك ماكسويل تناقضات معقدة

Reception: Thursday, July 2nd from 7 to 10pm. Contact info@bgartdealings.com for previews.
bG is pleased to present a solo exhibition by San Diego-based painter Mike Maxwell. Maxwell was given full creative reign to integrate his recent works into an installation in the gallery. The result is an eclectic body of work with different clusters of themes coming together in an immersive installation, including murals on the gallery walls.
Mike Maxwell has been a fixture in the art world underground since the late 1990s when he worked as an artist assistant for Shepard Fairey. His art came into popular culture awareness after he created the portrait logo for the popular Joe Rogan podcast. His own podcast, “Live Free Podcast,” was an artist-interviewing-artist platform that saw over 100 episodes over a five-year span and featured the likes of Mike Giant, Anthony Lister, Ed Templeton, and many other prominent painters and creative types from the scene. In 2011, he and Mike Giant were featured in an art film titled “Working Class,” created by Jeff Durkin of Bread Truck Films.
For over twenty years, Mike Maxwell has spent equal portions of time painting murals in the streets, drawing on train cars, and painting in his studio. His art is gritty yet mature, raw yet refined. His work is a mix of influence and experience from the street scene, to old school graphic techniques to old masters. Renaissance master, Albrecht Durer, as one of his primary influences.
إن لوحات ماكسويل نابعة من القلب وخالية من أي رقابة أو اهتمام بتأكيد جماهيري. إنه معارض لا يعتذر ولا يخشى التعبير عن رأيه، وهو أمر واضح في مجموعة أعماله - وهي صفة موجودة في أنقى اللوحات. وسواء عُرضت هذه اللوحات هنا أو في أي مكان آخر أو لم تُعرض على الإطلاق، فإن هذه اللوحات كانت سترسم لأن الرسم بالنسبة لماكسويل مثل الهواء والماء بالنسبة لنا. إن هذا المعرض هو مجرد مجموعة من صنبور إبداع ماكسويل، وفي محاولة لعرض فنه في أنقى صوره، منحت مجموعة بي جي الحرية الكاملة لماكسويل، وستأخذ بيده في تحويل المكان إلى معرض فريد من نوعه.
هذا هو أول معرض كبير لماكسويل منذ عشر سنوات وهو معرض طال انتظاره لفنان يحظى باحترام كبير في المشهد الفني.
The gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30am to 6:00pm at Bergamot Station, next door to the Bergamot Cafe