2016
The usually large scale abstract paintings of Max Presneill employ a vibrant and often jarring field of color, embedded with marks, scrawls, erasures and blockages, to question the act of painting and it's relationship to issues of existential intent and obligation, so leaning towards both a statement of individual presence (and thus a resistance to his own mortality) as much as an oblique political statement. The marks themselves, sourcing from sub-cultures, art history, accident and design, showcase a myriad of bravura methods of applying paint, in a move and countermove game of suppression and control. 2016