Max Presneill
  • 2025
  • 2020/4
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  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
    • Drawings
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  • curatorial
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  • 2014 (figurative)
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2008-10 (large)
  • 2008-10 (small)
  • 2006-8
  • old west
  • Pre 2000

Max Presneill
​Painter

Los Angeles

Moments in Time (MiT) 2018 - a new series of paintings.....
I am interested in what the act of painting means and how it can explore multiple avenues of enquiry simultaneously. From existential questions and an awareness of presence and mortality, to notions of masculine codes and gender, all can be encompassed, for me, within the structures of thought and application of material that painting represents.

Issues of class struggle and racial interaction are explored through the iconography and codes of the sub-cultural milieus of the outlaw motorcycle club world, as well as music, soccer, skateboarding cultures. The political aspects are inherent in these paintings that reflect a curatorial model of selection and placement, of the archeological urban inner city, with key motifs of my developing language of forms, marks and gestures, codes, signs, badges, signifiers and patches. 

This leaves them in a form of closed community, all elements in a dynamic relationship of meaning, a social model of knowledge. Modular. Frankensteinian, within the boundaries of the canvas as a performative arena, a stage or set where decision making engages the very human need to provide networks of understanding and cognitive associations. It is a rare space where responsibility, of identity, of choice, is focused, in opposition to processes of oppression, suppression, erasure and denial, that construct the paintings.
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MiT#11. 2018. oil, enamel, embroidered patch, fabric, vinyl stickers on canvas. 68 x 92 inches
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MiT#43. 2018. oil, enamel, plastic sticker, patches on canvas. 58 x 54 inches.
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MiT#41. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 52 x 48 inches
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MiT#48. 2018. oil, enamel, plastic sticker, patches on canvas. 30 x 20 inches
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MiT#42. 2018. oil on canvas. 36 x 36 inches
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MiT#49. 2018. oil and plastic sticker on canvas. 36 x 36 inches.
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MiT#23. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 60 x 60 inches
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MiT#47. 2018. oil, enamel, metal skull on canvas. 24 x 18 inches.
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MiT#44. 2018. oil, enamel, patch on canvas. 35 x 19 inches.
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MiT#40. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 60 x 60 inches
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MiT#39. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 60 x 48 inches
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MiT#38. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, stickers on canvas. 48 x 48 inches
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MiT#37. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 49 x 36 inches
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MiT#45. 2018. oil, enamel, marker, plastic sticker on canvas. 35 x 19 inches.
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MiT#36. 2018. oil, enamel on canvas. 36 x 36 inches
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MiT#35. 2018. oil, enamel on canvas. 36 x 36 inches
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MiT#34. 2018. oil, enamel on canvas. 30 x 30 inches
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MiT#46. 2018. oil, enamel, paper, plastic sticker on canvas. 24 x 18 inches.
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MiT#32. 2018. oil, enamel, patch, sticker on canvas. 36 x 30 inches
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MiT#33. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 36 x 36 inches
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MiT#22. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 56 x 53 inches
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MiT#30. 2018. oil, enamel on canvas. 30 x 30 inches
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MiT#31. 2018. oil, enamel on canvas. 30 x 30 inches
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MiT#29. 2018. oil, enamel on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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MiT#25. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 48 x 36 inches
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MiT#27. 2018. oil, enamel, leather glove on canvas. 30 x 30 inches
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MiT#28. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 35 x 35 inches
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MiT#26. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 32 x 36 inches
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MiT#24. 2018. oil, enamel, patches, sticker on canvas. 60 x 48 inches
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MiT#20. 2018. oil, enamel, stickers on canvas over panel. 60 x 60 inches
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MiT#19. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 48 x 48 inches
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MiT#18. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 48 x 48 inches
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MiT#17. 2018. oil, enamel, vinyl stickers on canvas over panel. 60 x 60 inches
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MiT#14. 2018. Oil, enamel, vinyl stickers on canvas over panel. 60 x 72 inches.
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MiT#16. 2018. oil, enamel, vinyl stickers, on canvas over panel. 60 x 60 inches
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MiT#10. 2018. oil, enamel, plastic tape, fabric, vinyl stickers on canvas. 64 x 84 inches
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MiT#12. 2018. Oil, enamel, vinyl stickers on canvas. 74 x 44 inches.
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MiT#9. 2018. oil, enamel, fabric on canvas. 68 x 60 inches
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MiT#15. 2018. oil on canvas. 72 x 60 inches
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MiT#13. 2018. Oil, enamel, vinyl stickers on canvas over panel. 60 x 72 inches.
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MiT#8. 2018. oil, enamel, vinyl stickers on canvas. 70 x 50 inches
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MiT#7. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 60 x 36 inches
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MiT#6. 2018. oil & spray paint on canvas over panel. 60 x 72 inches
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MiT#5. 2018. oil on canvas. 84 x 96 inches
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MiT#4. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 96 x 94 inches
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MiT#3. 2018. oil on canvas, metal skull ornament. 72 x 68 inches.
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MiT#2. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 96 x 94 inches.
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MiT#1. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 69 x 94 inches.
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RD210. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 60 x 48 inches.
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RD196. 2018. oil and spray paint on canvas. 70 x 50 inches
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RD195. 2018. oil and spray paint on canvas. 70 x 50 inches
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RD199. 2018. oil on canvas. 60 x 48 inches
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RD213. 2018. oil on canvas. 60 x 60 inches.
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RD207. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas over panel. 84 x 48 inches
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RD204. 2018. oil on canvas over panel. 96 x 40 inches
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RD177.2. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 72 x 60 inches
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RD124.2. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 53 x 50 inches
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RD180.2. 2018. oil and enamel on canvas. 60 x 48 inches.
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RD112.4. 2018. oil, enamel, fabric on panel. 53 x 48 inches.
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