Max Cole: Endless Journey
Art is something that has to be lived. It is long and there are no shortcuts.
— Max Cole
A companion to Max Cole: Works 1970-2018 (Radius Books, 2017), this volume features a selection of new paintings and works on paper that recently appeared in the show Endless Journey (SITE Santa Fe, Oct 2022 – Jan 2023). Cole’s iconic paintings invite viewers on a meditative journey through her lifelong investigation of rhythmic repetitive line and composition. “Written like music or poetry, Cole’s lines are records of movement, keepers of time. The slight variation in each hand-made mark creates a visual echo that vibrates across the canvas creating a visceral and immersive experience for the viewer,” notes SITE curator Brandee Caoba.
Art is something that has to be lived. It is long and there are no shortcuts.
— Max Cole
A companion to Max Cole: Works 1970-2018 (Radius Books, 2017), this volume features a selection of new paintings and works on paper that recently appeared in the show Endless Journey (SITE Santa Fe, Oct 2022 – Jan 2023). Cole’s iconic paintings invite viewers on a meditative journey through her lifelong investigation of rhythmic repetitive line and composition. “Written like music or poetry, Cole’s lines are records of movement, keepers of time. The slight variation in each hand-made mark creates a visual echo that vibrates across the canvas creating a visceral and immersive experience for the viewer,” notes SITE curator Brandee Caoba.
Art is something that has to be lived. It is long and there are no shortcuts.
— Max Cole
A companion to Max Cole: Works 1970-2018 (Radius Books, 2017), this volume features a selection of new paintings and works on paper that recently appeared in the show Endless Journey (SITE Santa Fe, Oct 2022 – Jan 2023). Cole’s iconic paintings invite viewers on a meditative journey through her lifelong investigation of rhythmic repetitive line and composition. “Written like music or poetry, Cole’s lines are records of movement, keepers of time. The slight variation in each hand-made mark creates a visual echo that vibrates across the canvas creating a visceral and immersive experience for the viewer,” notes SITE curator Brandee Caoba.
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Max Cole (b. 1937, Kansas) grew up in the Southwest. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1961 from Fort Hays University and her MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she was awarded a Fellowship for the Graduate Study of Painting. Since then, she has developed artistically in Los Angeles, New York, and Europe. Cole’s career commenced in 1976 with a four-person exhibition entitled New Abstract Painting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since then, she has exhibited across the US and Europe, and her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Buffalo AKG Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Denver Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, and the Vatican Museum Contemporary Art Collection. She resides and works in northern New Mexico.