Gesso, acrylic and vinyl polymers, epoxy,japanese pewter leaf, palladium leaf on wood panel
40 x 80″
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1998-2006
Gesso, polyurethane, acrylic polymer, Swiss gold leaf, black clay on wood panel (gilt edge)
25″ diameter Quatrefoil
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Max Gimblett was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1935. He immigrated to San Francisco from Canada in 1965, when he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. For two years he lived in San Francisco, then Bloomington, Indiana, and Austin, Texas, before taking up residence in New York City in 1972 where he lives today.
He was a visiting associate professor of art and design at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York from 1979-1988. Max Gimblett’s work consists largely of object-based paintings in a variety of shapes: the quatrefoil, oval, rectangle, circle, and square. The surfaces combine calligraphy and the use of acrylic paints and resins with precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper. His paintings embrace both Eastern and Western philosophies in relation to honor, wisdom, light and enlightenment and together with an intense drawing practice also reference ancient symbols and belief systems. The thrust of the work is the transformation of material and spiritual energies.
Max collaborates with the poets Robert Creeley, John Yau, and Lewis Hyde, making both limited edition and unique one-of-a-kind artist’s books. Having attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the mid-60s, Max has maintained strong ties with San Francisco and has shown regularly since 1980, initially with Modernism Gallery and since 1990 with Haines Gallery.
Max Gimblett
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Max Gimblett was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1935. He immigrated to San Francisco from Canada in 1965, when he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. For two years he lived in San Francisco, then Bloomington, Indiana, and Austin, Texas, before taking up residence in New York City in 1972 where he lives today.
He was a visiting associate professor of art and design at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York from 1979-1988. Max Gimblett’s work consists largely of object-based paintings in a variety of shapes: the quatrefoil, oval, rectangle, circle, and square. The surfaces combine calligraphy and the use of acrylic paints and resins with precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper. His paintings embrace both Eastern and Western philosophies in relation to honor, wisdom, light and enlightenment and together with an intense drawing practice also reference ancient symbols and belief systems. The thrust of the work is the transformation of material and spiritual energies.
Max collaborates with the poets Robert Creeley, John Yau, and Lewis Hyde, making both limited edition and unique one-of-a-kind artist’s books. Having attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the mid-60s, Max has maintained strong ties with San Francisco and has shown regularly since 1980, initially with Modernism Gallery and since 1990 with Haines Gallery.