Max Wade

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MAX WADE'S paintings are imagined landscapes in flux, where forms emerge and dissolve within fields of color and texture, resisting objective interpretation. Primarily working in oil, he cultivates paintings that ask questions of the viewers, striking up a conversation, rather than attempting to give answers Despite this ambiguity, his works remain firmly grounded in the real world. Wade pulls his subjects from his everyday life and travels, as he is drawn especially to overlooked spaces, with a sustained focus on the liminal areas in-between objects as he often builds forms from negative space rather than the subjects themselves. His process begins with his sketchbook drawings, airy networks of relations, shapes cast by suspended encounters, rather than detailed documentation of Wade’s day-to-day life. 

 

Max Wade was born in 1985 in London. Wade studied Fine Art Painting at Brighton University. Wade’s recent solo exhibitions include ‘Dodge and Burn’, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, USA; ‘Go Bang’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK ‘Whisper Down the Lane’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2021; ‘Sowing the Soil with Salt’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2020; ‘Platform: London’, hosted by David Zwirner (online), 2020; ‘Wind for the Sails’, Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury, 2020; ‘Between the Dog and the Wolf’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2019; ‘For Tina’, curated by Roxie Warder hosted at Cob Gallery, London, 2019. Recent group exhibitions have included ‘Across the Pond: Contemporary Painting in London’, curated by Emma Fineman, Eric Firestone Gallery, 2024; ‘Searching Minds’, Sid Motion Gallery, London; ‘New Abstractions’, Informality Gallery, Cromwell Place, London; ‘Abstract Colour’, Marlborough Gallery, 2023; and ‘Stand with Ukraine’, Hales Gallery, London. His residencies include Artist’s Workshop & Exchange, Muscat, Oman in 2013. Wade lives and works in London.

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