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Descripcin Conceptual y Tcnica
For the last three years Eric Ashcraft and Maxon Higbee have
been collaborating on a project that involves
Plein-Aire painting in problematic or impossible circumstances.
Examples of this practice range from paintingin Lake Michigan
(twenty yards off the shore) to painting while running with the
bulls in Chinchon Spain. The
work itself then, includes a performative element that blurs the
lines between the disciplines of painting and
performance. The relevance of this project is not merely in an
exploration of the above mentioned medias, but
is also an attempt to generate artwork within an
hyper-experiential framework, where the circumstances
surrounding the art product are as important as the product
itself.
This project examines idea of plein-air painting as an art form
that was historically subversive, and which was
a development principally concerned with the rural, which is now
considered anachronistic and nave within
the dialogue of contemporary art. However it is within shifiting
the context of plein-air painting from the rural
to the urban that the Plein Aire Extreme Team has centered their
practice, to the result of making what was
thought to be outmoded seem renewed and experimental. The
project further explores how this marker, of a
time where the rural was avante garde, becomes re-contextualied
once more by being reinserted back into the
rural domain, which itself has dramatically changed since that
same time.
Extremely Handsome Plein-Air Extreme Team
Maxon [email protected]
www.maxonhigbee.com
Eric [email protected]
ericashcraft.com
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MAXON MORRISON HIGBEE
C/ Olivar 33 | Bajo Local | Madrid 28012682 922 972 |
[email protected] | maxonhigbee.com
EDUCATIONM.F.A Painting/Drawing, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. 2010B.F.A Painting/Drawing, California State University
Chico. 2007
B.A English Literature, California State University Chico.
2007
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURESThe Plein-Air Extreme Team,
Thyssen-Bornemiza Museum, Madrid 2013
Above as it is Below, Lecture, California State University
Chico, California, 2012One and None, a Plurality of Worlds,
Lecture, AUB, Beirut, Lbano, 2012
Dust < > Dust, La Tabacalera, Madrid, 2011To Boldly Glow,
Zobrili Gallery, Chicago, 2010
March of Cain, Blue Room Theatre Gallery, Chico, California,
2008Chapter Four: AB UNO, Culminating Exhibition for the Bachelor
of Fine Arts Degree, BFAGallery, Chico, EEUU, 2007
Ingres and Delacroix: Fistfight in Heaven, BFA Gallery,
Chico,California, 2006
The Brush-Ups, with David Fuller and Johanna Handke, A.S.
Gallery, Chico, 2006Bayliss Bound, Bayliss Public Library Gallery,
Bayliss, EEUU, 2005
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONSNew American Paintings, #101 New
American Paintings Exhibition in Print, 2012Los Artistas del
Barrio, The Windor, Madrid, Spain, 2012Zobrili Collection,
Murdertown Gallery, Chicago, 2011Perspective Subjective, Sullivan
Gallery, Chicago, 2011Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the
Curtain, PT Gallery, Chicago, 2010
Crucifix, Zobrili Gallery, Chicago, 2010Midnight Snacks, 1366 N
Milwaukee, Chicago, 2010Intertwined, Sanskriti Gallery, New Delhi,
India, 2010Technically its Art, Abryant Gallery, Chicago, 2009
Noroc 3, Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago, 2009Apartment Store,
Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, 2008Under Five, The Crux Gallery, Chico,
EEUU, 2008Touch It, BFA Gallery, Chico, EEUU 2007Salon de Refuses,
The Crux Gallery. Chico, EEUU 2006
Pushing The Non-Square Pixel 2 University Film Series, Chico,
EEUU 2006Art 911, BFA Gallery, Chico, California, 2006All Together
Now, BFA Gallery, Chico, California, 2006Tiny Teenies, MedArt 59,
Chico, California, 2006
Madlib Mnemonic, Ayres Gallery, Chico, California, 2005Fussy
Girl, BFA Gallery, Chico, California, 2005Texy, BFA Gallery, Chico,
California, 2005
AWARDSNew American Paintings, #101 New American Paintings
Competition, 2012John Quincey Adams Merit Fellowship, School of the
Art Institute Chicago, 2010World Less Traveled Grant, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, 2010
16th
Annual Arts Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, 200915th Annual Arts Leadership Award, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, 2009Trustee Merit Fellowship, Society for
Contemporary Art Chicago, 2008-2010
Pierce/Truckess Watermedia Scholarship, 2006
