MAXINE HENRYSON

Artist Statement

In my extended investigation of world cultures, the natural world and the feminine, I experiment with the use of the blur as space and memory-making gesture. Drawn to the poetic aspects of the everyday, in chance encounters the extraordinary is made visible in the ordinary. Hybrids of the abstract and the real, the painterly and the documentary, my photographs present a vision that exists as much from my memory and imagination as in the real world. I have an acute sensitivity to light and color, the interplay of which forms the basis of my photography. I work in series, which - in the form of non-linear narratives - combine the poetic and emotional with representations of sensuality, joy, mortality and the cyclical transformations of existence.

I experiment with the limits and peculiarities of color film to produce luminous photographs saturated with intense color. Editing and sequencing are the mainstay of my process. Publishing and installations are significant parts of my practice: in both, I experiment with different ways of producing and viewing photographs allowing the viewer to question the very act of looking.

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Past Solo Exhibitions: Frequently the woods are pink, 2023. True Though Invented, 2020
Contrapuntal, 2017
from Ujjayi’s Journey, 2014

Past Group Exhibitions: please come flying, 2022 Reviewed and Sold, Whats Next?, 2022 23°47', 2°27', 2°51', 2021 SYMPOIESIS, 2020 (s)(o)(f)(t) (w)(i)(n)(d)(o)(w)(s), 2020 NADA House, 2019
Eleven by Seventeen, 2019
Who Cares?, 2017
The Blossom as the Self, Ann Pachner, 2017 Cooperative Consciousness, 2016
If These Walls…II,2015
You are my Dear Blossom…, 2014
The Red/Pink Show!…, 2013 Anomalistic Revolution, 2012

True Though Invented (2020), Virtual Tour.

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