Maxfield Chandler
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Born on November 17th, 1965, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Lived in Montreal,
New York City, Seattle, and now resides in New York City.
Worked in painting, writing (fiction, poetry, screen-), photography, music, video, stage design, hypermedia,
game design and performance art.
Painting style encompasses symbolism, neo-expressionism, brut. Source influences include Odilon Redon, Vienna Secession, Der Blaue Reiter, C
lifford Styll, Henry Darger, Matthew Barney, Trenton Doyle Hancock, many others.
Most of my art is composed of creatures, objects, and landscapes
drawn from dreams, both of the night and of the day, which co-exist in
some particular internal world, part intuitive and part planned. In the work
I address the dialectic of the representational versus the abstract, obsessions
with a particular form or line, the aesthetics of archaeology and cultural
anthropology, Hermeticism, and Silurianism.
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