In the paintings of the US artist Maxwell Dunlop, atmospheres of peculiar gravitation meet spaces that both narrate with tension and open up a vast, silent timelessness.
On the one hand, his spaces are vast, open natural landscapes with mountains and skies full of clouds that stretch down into the valleys. On the other hand, Dunlop shows interiors of magnificent halls and representative foyers of a bygone, “classical” era. These interiors, though thoroughly marked by civilisational design and history, nevertheless seem strangely large, deserted and dark as if after their inhabitants had moved out. Human artefacts are placed here in distant perspective, like visiting a museum outside opening hours.
Maxwell Dunlop points out that he does not base his interiors on concrete models, but rather associates set pieces of his memories and ideas. The same applies to his landscapes, whose very personal pictorial compositions adhere to the inner show rather than wanting to repeat the real visit to a place. The “echo”, the reverberation of his paintings, corresponds to the artist’s inner sonar, with which he sounds out and reproduces his socio-cultural and natural experience.
CV
born 1983 near Boston, USA
1997 – 2001
High School Diploma, Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT, USA
2001 – 2005
Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, USA
solo and two person exhibitions:
2021
“Echo”, janinebeangallery, Berlin
“Empire,” Blink Art Group, Germany
2020
„Landschaften“, Armin Völckers and Maxwell Dunlop, janinebeangallery
“Remains,” Blink Art Group, Germany
2015
„Dunlop and Dunlop: A family Affair“, White Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
„Father and Son“, Watershed Gallery, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
2012
„Riffs“, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2010
„Realm“, Slag Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, USA
2009
„Father and Son“, White Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
group exhibitions:
2022
„Das Wunderland fehlte mir“, Andrea Damp, Maxwell Dunlop, Beate Höing, Petra Rintelen, Arny Schmit, janinebeangallery, Berlin
2019
„Dezembersalon“, Galerie Taube, Berlin, Germany
2018
„Anonymous“, Galerie am Kornerpark, Berlin, Germany
„New Paintings“, Lily Pad West, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2017
„Nature Mensch“, Nationalpark Harz, Sankt Andreasberg, Germany
Der Heise Kunst Preis, Karl Heinz Heise Foundation, Dessau
2015
„Collaboration“, Leclerc Contemporary, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
2007
„Inside New York“, Flow of Art, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
„Oil and Steel“, White Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
„Art of the Northeast“, Silvermine Art Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
2006
„Urban Expressions“, Studio E, Danbury, Connecticut, USA