Max Cole: Works 1970–2018

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In these paintings, marked by their somber palette... and exquisite mass of detail, only lengthy observation leads one to anything resembling a complete understanding of the deceptively simple compositions.

–Angela Madesani, Artforum


The painter Max Cole has refined her visual language into a series of vertical and horizontal lines, and a restrained palette of gray, black, and white. Her works often comprise up to 80 layers of paint and areas of unpainted linen, subtly interchanging the texture of paint with the texture of fabric. Further looking reveals tiny, imperfect, hatch marks that oscillate when seen from afar. As Cole says, “The result is quiet, inward and meditative, transcending the physical.” This book presents work from Cole’s career over the past half-century, a complete chronology of her life, and excerpts from sixteen compelling texts. 

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In these paintings, marked by their somber palette... and exquisite mass of detail, only lengthy observation leads one to anything resembling a complete understanding of the deceptively simple compositions.

–Angela Madesani, Artforum


The painter Max Cole has refined her visual language into a series of vertical and horizontal lines, and a restrained palette of gray, black, and white. Her works often comprise up to 80 layers of paint and areas of unpainted linen, subtly interchanging the texture of paint with the texture of fabric. Further looking reveals tiny, imperfect, hatch marks that oscillate when seen from afar. As Cole says, “The result is quiet, inward and meditative, transcending the physical.” This book presents work from Cole’s career over the past half-century, a complete chronology of her life, and excerpts from sixteen compelling texts. 

Limited Edition Slipcase Set

In these paintings, marked by their somber palette... and exquisite mass of detail, only lengthy observation leads one to anything resembling a complete understanding of the deceptively simple compositions.

–Angela Madesani, Artforum


The painter Max Cole has refined her visual language into a series of vertical and horizontal lines, and a restrained palette of gray, black, and white. Her works often comprise up to 80 layers of paint and areas of unpainted linen, subtly interchanging the texture of paint with the texture of fabric. Further looking reveals tiny, imperfect, hatch marks that oscillate when seen from afar. As Cole says, “The result is quiet, inward and meditative, transcending the physical.” This book presents work from Cole’s career over the past half-century, a complete chronology of her life, and excerpts from sixteen compelling texts. 

Limited Edition Slipcase Set

 

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  • Artwork by Max Cole
    Texts by Douglas Dreishpoon, Stefan Kraus, Giuseppina Panza
    Excerpts from Sidney Janis, Raimund Stecker, Magdalena Broska, Dan Cameron, Richard Vine, Laura Mattioli Rossi, Elisabeth Grossman, Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, David Pagel, Andreas Pinczewski, Reinhard Ermen, Steven Evans

    Hardcover
    10.5 x 12.25 inches
    272 pages / 140 images
    Trade ISBN: 9781942185215
    Signed ISBN: 9798890180285

  • 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.