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March 2022 - In Living Colors
For the past 2 months, Ed Maximus has been working on a new series of work exploring the crossroad between traditional and digital art. For this project, he uses his archive of portraiture as a starting point. He then combined his traditional art experience with his expertise as a software engineer to create a series of work that is truly unique. Each piece stands as an interactive 3d painting made of voxels. And within each one is a colorful world full of abstraction.
For more on this project, visit www.edmaximus.xyz/inlivingcolors
January 2022 - Angel of My Nightmares/Demon of My Dreams is available for acquisition
Ed Maximus' latest sculpture is now available for acquisition in a limited edition of 3 + 1 artist proof.
For price and more info, visit www.edmaximus.xyz/shop
December 2021 - Angel of My Nightmares/Demon of My Dreams (Work In Progress)
This sculpture is a character study of an ominous figure that often appears in my dreams. Since I was a child, I've rarely had normal dreams. Most would start as the greatest fantasy ever. Then they would end with me fighting for my life and having to wake up right before dying. The scariest dreams are often the ones where I'm being chased by a figure wrapped in heavy fabric that alternates between flowing like a turbulent ocean and billowing like smoke. While running for my life, I would trip and fall into a different scene where it is gone but the overbearing feeling of its existence is still looming in my head. Over the past few years, I have managed to get this situation under control. I no longer wake up from my sleep sweating with my heart racing... And the last time I saw that character, it was frozen on its knee while I was having a wonderful time.
November 2021 - Young At Heart
When I created my series of sculpture The Burden of Blackness, I wanted it to be part of a larger visual narrative highlighting moments in the life and afterlife of a couple whose bond has been tested but remains unbroken. I knew that would require me to come back to my photography root in order to further explore their journey. In this short editorial, I portrayed these two characters in their youth through the wonderful Antonio and Tay...
October 2021 - The Burden of Blackness series is available for acquisition
The Burden of Blackness is a two pieces reflection on the experience of being Black in America; what it feels like to find peace and carry your head with pride in a country that often tries to break you down.
Each piece from this series is limited to an edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs. For price and more info, visit www.edmaximus.xyz/shop
September 2021 - Ed Maximus opened Studio Maximus to create work beyond photography
For the past two years, Ed Maximus has been exploring other media to further his artistic vision. He started out with painting as a way to expand his fine art project For Colored Girls and also reconnect with a form of art that used to bring him peace. In May 2021, he inadvertently picked up sculpting. In the process of figuring out how to create a mold of a human head, he decided to try his hand on clay bust instead of having to rely on live model. That initial experience led him to believe that he could bring to bring to life some of his ideas through a medium that is more tangible than photography.
Within in a few months, Maximus has found his voice through sculpting and completed his first series titled "The Burden of Blackness". To invite the world on this phase of his journey, Maximus has created Studio Maximus , a platform that will server as an umbrella to his muldisciplinary work.
February 2021 - Ed Maximus has been selected to receive a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
(Trenton, NJ) The New Jersey State Council on the Arts held its first public meeting of 2021 today, where nearly $1 million was awarded to 129 New Jersey artists through two grant programs.
The Individual Artist Fellowships are competitive awards to New Jersey artists in 12 rotating disciplines granted solely on independent peer panel assessment of work samples. The anonymous process is focused on artistic quality, and awards may be used to help artists produce new work and advance their careers. New Jersey artists applied for awards this year in the categories of crafts, interdisciplinary performance and interdisciplinary visual art, photography, and playwriting and screenwriting. This program is carried out in partnership with the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
See the complete list of the 2021 Fellowship Award recipients.
Source: https://nj.gov/state/press-2021-0202.shtml
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