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Kirk Maxson | Leaves
13 Mar - 25 Apr 2025 Kirk Maxson, originally from Oregon, developed a deep connection to nature that influenced his art. After moving to San Francisco, he began creating paper plants and herbariums inspired by his surroundings. His work reflects his strong bond with nature, capturing the beauty and emotions it evokes. Read more -
Christopher Rodriguez
13 Mar - 27 Apr 2025 Christopher Rodriguez creates landscapes that explore the relationship between nature and imagination, transforming natural scenes into reflections on how we perceive the world. His work has been exhibited at Maybaum Gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and featured in The New York Times , Wired... Read more
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Ilhwa Kim | The Geographic
1 Feb - 12 Mar 2025 Artist Statement 'I tend to view different eras and works of art history as the history of surfaces. There were periods when surfaces were merely materials to be covered and painted. Yet, even then, a significant painting was believed to possess its own unique surface—shaped by divine inspiration or the... Read more -
Karl Klingbiel | The Palm at the End of the Mind
20 Dec 2024 - 28 Jan 2025 Artist's Statement 'As an abstract painter I have always been drawn to the tension, in Mark Rothko’s words, between “the absolute of intellectual abstraction and the palpable world”. There are few things that to my mind illuminate this tension: abstract art, classical music and jazz, and poetry. As our society... Read more -
Sanjay Vora | The Visiting
14 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Born from the distant echoes of an upbringing seeped in Indian Classical music, my paintings become layered, experiential constructions that are ultimately a collective reckoning with our mortality. As both Hindu and atheistic principles from my American-born childhood pervade my continuous wonder, it is through my spiritualized visions of memory,... Read more -
Karina Bania | Recent Paintings
14 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Read more
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Jarek Puczel | Endless Summer
23 Oct - 13 Nov 2024 Jarek Puczel's work has a defining theme of melancholy. He seems to have accepted and learned to love this subtle, imperfect 'bittersweet taste' and made it the essence of his artistic practice. The characters in Puczel's paintings are immersed in their dreams and often entangled in romantic relationships. However, there... Read more -
Sandra Strēle | Recent Paintings
23 Oct - 13 Nov 2024 Read more -
Victoria Wagner | Come the Morning Bells
13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Read more -
Melissa Dickenson | A Hand Full of Dust
13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Read more
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Andy Curlowe & Emily Kepulis
1 Aug - 12 Sep 2024 Read more -
Kate Nielsen & Kirsten Tradowsky | The Water's Edge
15 Jun - 30 Jul 2024 Read more -
Karen Smidth | Breathing Room
Artist Talk: Thursday May 2nd, 5-7pm 1 May - 14 Jun 2024 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Breathing Room by Gallery Artist Karen Smidth. In the artist's own words, these paintings react to the light, color, and shapes present in California's ever-inspiring landscape. While some of these beautifully painted landscapes connect to a place in time, some relate to a place... Read more -
Nick McPhail | Channel
Artist Talk: Thursday April 4, 5-7 PM 2 - 30 Apr 2024 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present ‘Channel ’ a solo exhibition by gallery artist Nick McPhail. McPhail describes this multidisciplinary work as channels, a window into a faraway place, observing impossible views, and that which lies just out of reach. The show will be on view from April 1 -... Read more
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Melanie Daniel | Throw Open The Windows
Opening Reception March 7th 5-7pm 1 - 31 Mar 2024 Melanie Daniel's psychedelic, unnatural palette, dense areas of vibrating pattern, and skewed perspectives underscore an uncanny relationship between the subjects and their environment. Drawing heavily from the Canadian landscape and her great appetite for the history and language of painting, the landscapes are interjected with areas of delicate stains and... Read more -
Sydney Cohen | New Paintings
Artist Reception March 7th 5-7pm 1 - 31 Mar 2024 In her practice, Sydney Cohen undertakes a long term project in collaboration with a female artificial intelligence, researching both consciousness and self-consciousness. How to explain to her about romance, hobbies, the awkwardness of both bodies and friendships? In the artist's words, 'My AI friend and I keep trying to crawl... Read more -
Karina Bania | The Language of Water
1 - 29 Feb 2024 In this latest body of work, The Language of Water, Bania is drawing from nature and the passage of time. Intentional pools and marks are placed across the canvas, but like all things in nature, the elements of wind and water shift the landscape in unexpected ways. 'Creating is a... Read more -
Ciccio Boles
1 - 29 Feb 2024 Conjuring the naive and primitive art, Ciccio Boles's still lifes are nothing less than witty and smart. His single plane perspective flattens the objects into awkward shapes suspended floating on vertical surfaces. Only carefully selected color and line tether the scene to reality while his raking shadows allow a hyper-awareness... Read more
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Opposing Materiality | Ilhwa Kim, Aiko Tezuka, and Nadia Yaron
15 Dec 2023 - 31 Jan 2024 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present a three person show with international and national artists Ilhwa Kim, Aiko Tezuka and Nadia Yaron. Opposing Materiality is a tightly curated group show bringing together three artists whose work is driven by philosophical inquiries around the material nature of the physical world. In... Read more -
Gregory Hayes | Magic Mirrors
Opening Reception: Nov 2, 2023 5-7 PM 1 Nov - 14 Dec 2023 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Magic Mirrors , our third solo show for New York based artist Gregory Hayes.The new body of work is based on an eponymous poem by the artist, and aims to create portals of color that reflect back the true self to the viewer as... Read more -
Erik Parra | John Miranda
Artist Talk: Thursday October 5, 5:30 - 7:30 PM 1 - 31 Oct 2023 ERIK PARRA is a contemporary Mexican-American artist. His paintings, drawings and collage draw on a collective, cultural memory and the history of painting and film. Interior spaces become cultural self-portraits. Particularly invested in post-war narratives that shape contemporary life, Parra draws upon personal memories of growing up in a “mid-century”... Read more -
Belinda Fox | Yield
Artist Talk: Thursday September 7, 5-7 PM 31 Aug - 30 Sep 2023 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present its fourth solo show with gallery artist Belinda Fox. Yield comprises the artist’s recent work, a multidisciplinary array of two dimensional explorations into the everyday beauty of the natural world and the capacity of artmaking to reflect the process and possibility in human transformation.... Read more
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Summerscapes II: Nick McPhail, Kirsten Tradowsky, Stephen Ormandy
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Summerscapes | Kirsten Tradowsky, Erika Lee Sears & Stephen Ormandy
1 - 31 Jul 2023 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Summerscapes, a curated collection of works by Kirsten Tradowsky, Erika Lee Sears, and Stephen Ormandy representing the joys of summer. Pool scenes, fresh fruit, and rainbow infused sculpture remind us to slow down, have fun, and enjoy the moment. Kirsten Tradowsky In my recent... Read more -
Rebekah Callaghan | Surfaced
1 - 30 Jun 2023 Rebekah Callaghan’s latest series, Surfaced, brings to the forefront themes of discovery and rebirth. In the artist’s words, the paintings materialized one she surrendered her expectations of what they should be and leaned into what they were becoming. In search of discovering something new, Callaghan challenges what feels or appears... Read more -
Karen Smidth | Remarks
1 - 30 May 2023 Karen Smidth’s new collection, Remarks, centers on the Pacific landscape in emotionally evocative and sweepingly ethereal paintings. Her new body of work focuses on the idyllic scenes familiar to the Pacific coast, reimagined and re-marked as abstracted depictions from the artist’s impressions and memories. Smidth’s genius lies in her relationship... Read more
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Sanjay Vora | Be/Coming
1 - 30 Apr 2023 Born of reflection, Sanjay Vora’s pieces become visual experiences, coming to terms with the command and inevitability of time. Brought up in a suburban American home seeped in East Indian heritage and repetitive modal music, he now attempts to resolve his own sense of meaning and truth, endlessly searching to... Read more -
Karina Bania | Shifting Perspectives
1 - 30 Apr 2023 There is a distinct harmony of spontaneity and intention, intuition, and calculation, in Bania’s work. Each smear and transparent pool of color seems to have simultaneously found its own inevitable shape and to have been dictated with clarity. With her signature aesthetic vocabulary, Bania moves fluidly between abstract and form.... Read more -
Kieu Tran | Sacred Spaces
1 - 31 Mar 2023 Movement and connection are at the heart of the new sculptures from Kieu Tran. Rendered in bronze and ceramic in contrasting black and white tones, these three dimensional amorphous shapes successfully reference both the human figure and its spirit. While the abstracted figures are standalone sculptures, when viewed in their... Read more -
Laina Terpstra | Recent Paintings
1 - 31 Mar 2023 In her new paintings, Terpstra continues an ongoing investigation of the tension between loose, gestural brush strokes enclosed against the depth and illusion of architectural or dimensional spaces. Masterfully balancing the implementation of perspective against haunting ethereal formations that appear to emerge from the architecture itself, Terpstra’s compositions are compelling... Read more
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Hadas Tal | Crush
17 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Hadas Tal’s new body of work Crush explores four bodies of water: the Pacific Ocean surrounding the Hawaiian Island of Maui, the Outer Banks in North Carolina, the Pacific Ocean surrounding Northern California, and finally the Atlantic Ocean on the shores of Nova Scotia. Each holds special meaning and memories... Read more -
Maria Kostareva
17 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Read more -
Kirk Maxson | All About My Mother
22 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 We're excited to announce our premier solo show of Kirk Maxson's work. All About My Mother is in homage to the artist's childhood inspirations. Reared on a farm in rural Oregon by a fiber artist with a penchant for mycology, it was a life rich in nature and intertwined in... Read more -
Victoria Wagner | Broken Hallelujah
1 Oct - 18 Nov 2022 Victoria Wagner’s paintings and sculptures masterfully blend shape, line and color. Working on two levels, her paintings offer both high impact optics at first glance, while simultaneously drawing the viewer in to examine supple gradations of color and intricate intersections of lines. Shapes morph into each other and overlap in... Read more
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Erik Parra | Erika Lee Sears
3 Aug - 15 Sep 2022 We are pleased to announce our final summer exhibition. Two artists approaching interiors and still life from their own unique perspective. Parra's work is steeped in symbolism and specific cultural references - a homage to mid-century modern. Having grown up in Texas in a mid-century home, Parra's subject matter speaks... Read more -
Foad Satterfield | Present by Past
15 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Present by Past , our second solo show for Bay Area artist Foad Satterfield. Satterfield's recent work is a re-contextualization of previous explorations emphasizing bright hues, with singular physical stokes vigorously applied. For the past decade he has been interested in how to effectively... Read more -
Karen Smidth | Recent Paintings
3 May - 11 Jun 2022 Karen Smidth’s new collection centers the Pacific landscape in emotionally evocative and sweepingly ethereal large-scale paintings. The works are abstracted depictions of idyllic scenes that draw from the artist’s impressions and memories. Smidth’s genius lies in her facility with color, which she mixes in layers directly on top of her... Read more -
Heather Capen | Rain or Shine
1 - 30 Apr 2022 “My paintings manifest from my interest in the built environment, and the interplay between city life, nature and infrastructure. My work is greatly influenced by my career as a landscape architect, where I learned to appreciate the overlap of history, topography, cultures, and industry that occurs in an urban environment.... Read more
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Kirsten Tradowsky | Gatherings
1 - 30 Apr 2022 “This painting series is a meditation on group gatherings outside. Inspired by the behaviors so many of us adopted during the pandemic, I searched for vintage photographs, slides, and family films that show people spending time outside, with others, suspended in the moment. There is so much we don’t know:... Read more -
Erin Eastabrooks | Infinite Expanse
1 - 31 Mar 2022 Erin Eastabrooks is a multidisciplinary, self-taught artist living and working in the Bay Area. She draws inspiration from the bright colors, sun-drenched exteriors and psychedelic imagery of California and the West Coast. Her unique juxtaposition and play of differing colors, textures and patterns are influenced by her mother’s quilting and... Read more -
Ilhwa Kim
1 - 31 Mar 2022 South Korean artist Ilhwa Kim is acclaimed for her intricate compositions made of tens of thousands of rolled, hand-dyed mulberry paper pieces. Kim calls the individual rolls “seeds” and considers them microcosms within her larger cosmographies. She has become known for these three-dimensional works, finding immediate success in her native... Read more -
Karl Klingbiel | Every Force Evolves a Form
4 Jan - 28 Feb 2022 Karl Klingbiel’s deeply process-oriented methodology of image-building is designed to create paintings that serve not just as objects, but as arenas in which the paintings gain, over the course of their making, a certain autonomy, or countervailing force, rivaling his intentions for their resolution. This instability is the metaphorical core... Read more
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Erik Parra
4 Jan - 28 Feb 2022 Read more -
Belinda Fox | Gratitude
17 Nov - 30 Dec 2021 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Gratitude , our third solo show for Australian artist Belinda Fox. Gratitude is a celebration of all that we hold dear: memories of places, small wonders, and beauty in nature. It isn’t a grand gesture but a truthful expression of this moment in time... Read more -
Sydney Cohen
18 Oct - 16 Nov 2021 Read more -
Jarek Puczel | Transition
12 Oct - 16 Nov 2021 These uncertain times have examined our ability to be with ourselves. Puczel’s works created during this period inevitably bear marks of sadness and nostalgia for something that has passed, evoking a transformative experience. The characters depicted in his paintings take refuge in safe interiors or vast open spaces, discovering themselves... Read more
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Gregory Hayes | Tides of Time
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2021 Tides of Time concerns the interplay of two colors: black and white, as they appear atop the earth-toned artist fabrics of raw canvas, linen, hemp and jute. This new body of work is a part of the artist’s Duochrome series where black and white meet the additional binaries of geometric... Read more -
Kate Nielsen
1 - 7 Sep 2021 Maybaum Gallery is excited to show a new body of work from Australian artist Kate Nielsen. Kate’s complex interiors reveal a narrative of place and memory, an intriguing glimpse of a life lived and its stamp on time and space. The work unfolds at its own pace revealing shifting discoveries... Read more -
Erika Lee Sears
1 - 31 Aug 2021 A self-taught artist from Portland, OR, Erika has devoted every day of her life to art and has carved a place for it in her daily routine. It’s in her everyday that we see our everyday. Her still-lifes reflect moments of joy, peace, simplicity, and even humor in an otherwise... Read more -
Hadas Tal | Up Close and Far Away
22 Jun - 26 Jul 2021 Ultimately, it is the fascination with how to make the paint evolve into a conceivable image that I find most engaging . - Hadas Tal Hadas Tal paints the quiet, joyful moments of everyday life. A beautiful urban vista, a delicious dessert, flowers in a vase--finding and celebrating extreme beauty... Read more
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Kirk Maxson
22 Jun - 31 Aug 2021 Kirk Maxson moved to San Francisco in 1992, and lived in the Mission and participated in the San Francisco Mission School art scene. He exhibited artwork in the seminal exhibition spaces of Adobe books, Ascena, and ESP during the height of the Mission School.
Subsequently he has created multiple permanent site-specific installation for corporate collections including ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Kilroy Realty Corporation, Bellevue, WA, UBM, San Francisco, CA, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, Morgan Stanley Corporate Collection, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Collection, Avant Corporate Collection, Menlo Park, CA and Fresh Connection Corporation, Lafayette, CA. Read more -
Karen Smidth | Sea View
10 May - 20 Jun 2021 Karen Smidth’s (b. 1959 Aarhus, Denmark) prolific body of work includes landscape and still life paintings that span almost two decades.
In her early childhood, Smidth relocated from the city to a farm on the island of Fyn with her family. The idyllic setting set her free to roam and explore the landscape that inspired and engrained an enduring love of the natural world. When she was 17 she pursued an opportunity to study metal typography and began a four-year apprenticeship in typesetting with a traditional printing house on the western coast of Denmark. Four years later, Smidth moved to Copenhagen to attend design school and become a graphic designer. Smidth relocated to San Francisco in 1985 where she continued her career in international corporate identity and branding. These experiences were formative for Smidth’s later art practice, as she mastered aesthetic composition, an appreciation for striking landscapes and the fortitude for methodical workmanship.
In the late 1990s, Smidth became interested in painting and began classes at the College of Marin. Her first exhibitions were at the College of Marin and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art where she quickly grew a base of collectors and fans allowing her to focus full time on her painting practice. The popular appeal of Smidth’s work can be found in her sophisticated, yet emotionally powerful design aesthetic.
As an immigrant from Denmark to the United States, Smidth often discusses her iconic California landscapes as a way to connect to her new homeland. Smidth’s process is one of documentation and deep contemplation. She spends hours driving the countryside, searching for inspired vistas to paint. Once she gets the shot with her camera, she returns to her studio to paint the landscape. Smidth’s interiors and still lifes are also about deep observation and reclamation of imagery. Often the contents of a room she is about to paint are moved around and positioned just so, a continual process-based search for compositional beauty in everyday life.
Smidth’s work oscillates between the artistic traditions of her two home countries - San Francisco Bay Area Figurative and Danish Still Life paintings - bestowing her work with its uncanny universal appeal. While she has shown her work broadly in the United States, and has an international following, she connects deeply with her spectators and finds true joy in the translation of her personal experience of a room or a natural landscape to the viewer. “I’m endlessly experimenting with ways to make these paintings and how to express their emotion; but I do love to invite the viewer to interpret the paintings in a way that’s most meaningful to them.” The results are radical acts of experimental empathy. A beautiful way to interpret the world. Read more -
Simon Nicholas | Gatherings
1 Apr - 5 May 2021 Maybaum Gallery presents a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Norway-based artist Simon Nicholas. In this series of paintings, Nicholas explores people in relationship to their surroundings, engaged in everyday life. This is his second solo show at Maybaum Gallery.
A group, a crowd, a mob, a pack, a throng, a party. Before 2020 these words represented the most commonplace scenes of daily life--people, together. Simon Nicholas (b. 1954) has been working on his depictions of gatherings for half a decade, but thanks to the social isolation of the 2020 pandemic, new implications in his work begin to emerge.
Nicholas is adept at composing his crowds in such a way that we understand he’s collapsing the boundaries of traditional subject/object roles of picture making and picture consumption. In Gallery VI (below) a group of art viewers is depicted head-on--they stare directly at us but they aren’t challenging our gaze, they are simply looking at a painting. In the exterior scene in Park VII (above), the artist’s figures fill an expansive park field looking in the same direction. The subject of their attention is offstage or obscured in the darkening colors and melting gesture of the aerial perspective.
A global longing and a collective desire to simply be together has emerged in almost every conversation we now have. As the pandemic starts to recede and we allow ourselves to get excited at the thought of having a drink at a bar, seeing live music or walking through a museum with a close friend, we start to see the beauty and the meaning in simple, blissful proximity to one another. Everyday togetherness has been Simon Nicholas’s subject matter for years. In 2021 these works become flares of hope, a visual taste of what’s to come, and a reminder that life is made in the seemingly inconsequential moments of our togetherness. Read more -
Greg Haynes | Mirror Effect
1 - 31 Mar 2021 Greg Haynes (b. 1980) is a hyper realist oil painter based outside of Boston, Massachusetts. From a young age Haynes gravitated to pencil drawing and the detail that it offered. Throughout his childhood and teenage years he refined his ability by mimicking artists like M.C.Escher and practicing observational drawing for hours on end. In his teens he was introduced to oil painting and quickly fell in love with it. Over the years, he explored a number of painting styles but ultimately detailed realism took hold, and Haynes progressed to more complicated subject matter. The complexity of painting glass was intriguing to Haynes. He says: "When we look at glass we see the surface, what is reflected, and what lies beyond." Haynes presents glass jars and bottles as portraits that express a life of their own, projecting personality and character. His subjects are often in larger-than-life scale, depicted at close range with extraordinary detail, precision and verisimilitude. His compositions are tightly cropped, zooming in on textures, surfaces, and the play of light and shadow that, while utterly and convincingly portrayed, surpass mere mechanical representation of form.
“For the past few years I’ve been working with a number of themes that involve the reflections and visual distortion that various objects create. Glass and metal are two of the predominant materials of choice. I like the idea that you can achieve natural effects that play tricks on the eye. A successful painting to me is one that really engages the viewer and makes them stop to figure out everything that is happening within the plane of the canvas. This is an ongoing exploration for me and one I hope to continue for years to come. That is one of the great things about art, you can spend years on one idea and still have many different directions to take it in.”
- Greg Haynes
Greg Haynes graduated from the Hartford Art School in 2003 with a BFA in Fine Art. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in private collections around the world. Haynes is represented by Maybaum Gallery. Read more
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Christopher Rodriguez | Afterlife
Recent Photography 15 Jan - 28 Feb 2021 Inspired by writings of Alexander Humboldt, Christopher Rodriguez explores the contemporary landscape genre in themes of color, abstraction and still life. His photographs consider our changing relationships with nature in order to more closely speak to the world we live in. In his latest series of photographs, AFTERLIFE, he builds fictional landscapes with artificial lighting to paint an astonishing world imagined of the future. He challenges color’s representational qualities to blur the line between natural and artificial as he reflects on the fragility of our environment and hopes for a renewable tomorrow. Read more -
Paul Bloch & Laina Terpstra
1 Dec 2020 - 15 Jan 2021 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present a joint exhibition featuring sculptor, Paul Bloch and painter, Laina Terpstra. Read more -
Katina Huston | Psychological Ballast
15 Oct - 30 Nov 2020 Katina Huston has been a constant presence in Bay Area Art for 30 years. Her exhibit Psychological Ballast examines stability and entropy in abstract terms for these disrupted times. Shadows return as a foundation, pressed against repeating patterns which simultaneously define and disintegrate the initial forms from nature. “I move objects on a page to figure out my life. This year it turned out that I held the stable center.”
Huston suspends objects from studio ceiling and casts light through them, building delicate and ephemeral forms from the resulting shadows. Grass, palm and pine plus toy boat are rendered in ink and acrylic that flows across the mylar. Meaty oil paints push through the lace of drawing in patterns of dot, stripe and plaid. Bicycles as a subject have linked Huston’s work to Duchamp and shadows to Warhol. But if you ask her, she would claim Ann Hamilton, Petah Coyne, Lee Bontecou and Annette Messager as sources. Read more -
Victoria Wagner | Everglow
1 Sep - 15 Oct 2020 Victoria Wagner's abstract compositions inhabit perpetual space, vibrational color relationships and craft. Of this, she blames her formative years spent in the high Nevada desert in a reservation town where light was sharp and dramatic, the mountains governed the atmosphere and the sky commanded more peripheral vision than one is capable of perceiving. Conceptually, her research combines historical and contemporary pursuits of knowledge that run the gamut from interplanetary exploration to spiritual transcendence and has found great inspiration in the writings of cosmonauts, indigenous memoirists, industrial designers, mystics, arborists, social anthropologists and archaeologists.
Everglow is a selection of the artist’s mixed media wood sculptures and paintings made with repurposed and sometimes scorched redwood from the recent Northern California wildfires. Wagner’s work melds saturated jewel-toned color spectrums, geometric constellations and pieces of salvaged redwood to create gem-like meditations on climate change, the California wildfires that continue to rage for the fourth year in a row and the resiliency of the communities that come together to help each other in the face of disaster.
Conceptually, Victoria Wagner’s work explores the environment, climate collapse, and the role of beauty in art and human perception. Formally, the work offers a visual spectacle through the use of tonal vibration, materiality, rhythm, form and color. Sourcing damaged redwood trees from a local arborist in West Sonoma County where she lives amidst a redwood forest, Wagner carves raw chunks of tree into faceted gemstone shaped orbs. The contours of her shapes are often determined by the damage to the tree itself; she slowly shaves the charred weak spots in an intuitive process that she says highlights the “sentience of the redwood tree.” The newly formed planes are then enhanced with the artist’s signature color fields of vibrant oil paint from natural pigments and then sealed with shellac. For Wagner the subject matter becomes the medium and it carries a complicated message: caution and warning, beauty and resilience. Read more
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Rebekah Callaghan & Ben Reeves | Ephemeral Ground
15 Jul - 31 Aug 2020 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Ephemeral Ground, a joint exhibition featuring artists Rebekah Callaghan & Ben Reeves. Philadelphia-based artist Rebekah Callaghan paints flowers and foliage, but her subject matter is color, light and the passage of time. Painting from gardens and plants, these recognizable elements are reduced to their... Read more -
Karen Smidth | Pacific Edge
26 May - 15 Jun 2020 "THE LANDSCAPE gives me a wonderful excuse to paint. It allows me to travel under the heavenly skies and search for the essential vistas and split seconds of time that will carry me through my next series of paintings.
When I arrived in California from Denmark in the mid-1980s I was both mesmerized and taken aback by the vastness of the natural panorama along with its aridness and its wildness. It made me feel homesick for my small, wet Danish land. I refused to fall in love with the west coast of the North American Continent. I did not want to understand its subtle song, warm scent, relentless light, perfect mountains and temperamental coast.
In the early 2000s drawing and painting became my daily obsession and with it my senses were opened for what I had not been able to receive. ––My heart broke to this land.
My paintings are reactions to the light, color, and shapes that I see in the landscape. I use the landscape as a pattern or skeleton for what my day as a painter brings; my attempt to understand life. Most paintings have their ugly moments. They need to be wiped, sanded and over painted and this process builds their character. Some paintings have strong connections to a specific moment is time, but they all relate to a place of belonging as well as allowing room for the hue of the day." - Karen Smidth Read more -
Belinda Fox | FAULT/LINES
1 Apr - 25 May 2020 Belinda Fox is a multidiscipline artist, working in printmaking, painting, ceramics, and sculpture. Her work, which is often described, as beautifully rendered and technically accomplished. It investigates fragility and imbalance in an increasingly unstable world. She has won numerous awards for her printmaking and drawing including the Paul Guest Drawing Prize, the Burnie Print Prize and the Silk Cut award for lino- cuts. She has received funding grants to undertake artist in residencies in USA, Greece, Singapore, Darwin, Perth, Sydney and Tasmania and she has participated in major survey exhibitions of contemporary Australian printmaking in the UK, China and Australian Regional galleries.
"Wherever you choose to pause and contemplate, you will find a depth in Belinda Fox’s work which leaves nothing out. There are elements of tradition, the contemporary, her identity as artist and mother, the strangeness of dwelling as a foreigner in a foreign land, the news cycle of crises of humanity and the environment. Through it all is a keen awareness, a very Australian feet in the dirt sensibility, a humanistic grounding within landscape." -Lisa McKimmie, 2020 Read more -
Birgit Brandis | SUBSUR
1 - 31 Mar 2020 Brandis’ exhibition, SUBSUR, explores what is hidden beneath the surface and dives into a process of transformation. Using color as a material built up over time, she meticulously carves her way through the foundation she has laid, to reveal the vibrant surfaces surfaces waiting to be freed.
"The artist prompts the audience to find an image, reading its structures and references, to associate and to comprehend the visual. Her paintings do not only affect the audience, their genesis is their topic. With that, the artist surpasses the purely painterly composition. In the most unusual ways for a painter, Brandis works the surfaces almost like a sculptor. Her paintings are the result of a forceful confrontation with the material. The physical consistency of color as well as of the base are her topic of research." Dr Dirk Dobke in “The Inventor of Images (or) The Seismograph Read more
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Hadas Tal | A Record of Imagery
31 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 We are thrilled to present A Record of Imagery | Recent Paintings by Israeli born artist Hadas Tal Please join us for an Artist Reception, First Thursday | February 6th | 5:30 - 7:30PM 'I’m interested in capturing the impression of something; the essence of its character & soul. The... Read more -
Jarek Puczel | Inside & Beyond
1 Dec 2019 - 30 Jan 2020 Born in 1965 in Poland, Puczel graduated from the University of Warsaw and gained his artistic experience as a filmmaker, graphic designer and painter. He views his style as emotional, but calming, reduced in shape and color. Building stories, but pointing at illusion and unveiling the materiality of paints.Showing the... Read more -
Simon Nicholas | Urban Landscapes
23 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 Enjoy speaking to the artist in person about his elusive process of painting: 'attempting to work in the gap between observation, intuition/memory, and photographic references.' “My recent work has been based on urban landscapes, where the borders between reality, fiction and photographic representation are brought into question. Using formal elements... Read more -
Gregory Hayes | While Shedding Shadows
3 Sep - 22 Oct 2019 The exhibition features six square format paintings from Hayes’ evolving ‘Color Array’ series. The new series is referred to as Ghost because of the white backgrounds that the paintings seamlessly fade into. 'I use a predetermined pattern based on the Archimedean spiral combined with the unpredictability of the interaction of... Read more
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Heather Capen| Urban Light
1 Aug - 3 Sep 2019 We are thrilled to announce Urban Light , a solo exhibition by contemporary San Francisco based artist Heather Capen. In Capen’s latest body of work, she dives into the urban landscapes of San Francisco, capturing the true essence of a living city. 'My paintings reflect my interest in the built... Read more -
Monica Delgado| Delicately Stripped | Sculptural Paintings
3 Jun - 23 Jul 2019 Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Delectably Stripped - a solo exhibition by contemporary Filipino artist Monica Delgado. Delgado is interested in exploring the physicality of paint that tricks the viewer into thinking the medium is fabric, canvas, paper, or plastic. The repetitive motion and limitations of painting on canvas,... Read more -
Karen Smidth | Outside In
19 Apr - 31 May 2019 Karen Smidth spent the first 25 years of her life in Denmark. She moved to the Bay Area 34 years ago. Her first years were filled with a longing for her country, but soon she succumbed to everything California had to offer her as an artist and traveler. She notes... Read more -
Emily Moore | Mountainscapes
19 Apr - 31 May 2019 We are pleased to introduce Edinburgh-based artist Emily Moore to our roster. Her recent body of work - Mountainscapes is on view through June 2019. Emily Moore combines mountainous sceneries and architectural structures, while retaining the natural texture of the material beneath. Moore's work explores the tension between these natural... Read more
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Jeffrey Beauchamp | We're All In This Together, Somewhere
1 Mar - 15 Apr 2019 'Navigating our day-to-day is always a balancing act but the choice, to recognize our interconnectedness, can do a long way to temper the isolation we get from ones personal striving. This new body of work comes out of some welcome traction in the studio. This last year got me pushing... Read more -
Karl Klingbiel | Palimpsest
22 Dec 2018 - 15 Feb 2019 San Francisco, CA - Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Palimpsest, a solo exhibition by contemporary New York based artist Karl Klingbiel. In his premier solo show at Maybaum Gallery, Klingbiel presents his most dynamic series to date. The show includes 7 paintings and 3 multi-panel wall sculptures that reveal... Read more -
Belinda Fox | Introduce Yourself
16 Oct - 12 Dec 2018 San Francisco, CA - Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present Introduce Yourself , the first solo show in the United States for Australian born, Internationally renowned artist Belinda Fox. Each piece, whether of singly oriented flora, or diptychs of diametric opposition, guides the viewer’s eye along a winding path. Fox... Read more -
Present Company | Recent Paintings by Rebekah Callaghan
1 Sep - 16 Oct 2018 San Francisco, CA - Maybaum Gallery is pleased to announce “Present Company” an exhibition of recent paintings by Rebekah Callaghan. In her premier exhibition on the west coast, Maybaum Gallery hosted the artist and guests at a successful opening night at the historic 49 Geary gallery building downtown. The exhibition... Read more
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Maybaum Gallery opens with Formal Dimension
Inaugural Group Exhibition 3 Jul - 31 Aug 2018 June 20, 2018, San Francisco, Calif.—San Francisco Bay Area-based art dealer Christina Maybaum is pleased to announce the opening of her eponymous new art venture, Maybaum Gallery. The gallery will represent emerging and mid-career artists whose practices center on painterly and process-driven investigations. The inaugural group show presents a selection... Read more -
Recent Paintings by Foad Satterfield
3 May - 30 Jun 2018 Read more
