Guest of Honor: Tim Maxwell
“I would love to attend and meet the many artists whom I’d admire and who also drew inspiration from Herbert.
I admire him from the perspective of being a visionary yet not striving to be one.
He lived and created what he loved, not where it would lead. I deeply respect this entirely unique and independent spirit. It’s inspiring.
His actions will no doubt affect the entire art world to come. Shockwaves are imminent.
I want to articulate in person how he did so. But, from my point of view, not in code, in conversation.
He made the fine art of bs, mathematical. And honestly, it’s shocking as much as it is poetic.
I feel many respect him on many levels and layers. All equal and all for the positive.”
Biography
Tim Maxwell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1978 and lives and works in New York City.
He received his BFA from Penn State University in 2002, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004.
Tim Maxwell’s drawings are influenced by Celtic illuminated manuscripts, medieval depictions of the Last Judgment, geometry, human ornamentation, and the self-help quality of punk and hardcore music.
He has had solo shows at Marvelli, Derek Eller, and RARE Gallery and has been included in group exhibitions at White Columns and Massimo Audiello Inc. in New York, as well as Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker and Art on Paper magazine.
Tom Maxwell was an invited participant of the “Tribute to Herbert W. Franke”. His Tribute work will be shown at the Exhibition “Kunst – Code – Konstruktionen”, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, opening July 5th as part of the Generative Art Summit.