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Max Gimblett: The language of drawing (17 May – 28 July 2002)
Introduction
 Max Gimblett in his studio New York, 1983 Photograph by David Stark. Reproduced with permission. |
Max Gimblett was born in Auckland in 1935 and commenced his career as a painter in San Francisco some thirty years later. He set up a studio in New York in 1972, where the artist is based today. Gimblett has held numerous solo exhibitions since the 1970s, and his work is held in prestigious art museums in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.
Gimblett views his drawings as a major aspect of his oeuvre, and few artists of his generation have so regularly produced works on paper with such commitment. They have spiritual and metaphysical connotations, combining both eastern and western impulses. They represent either a slow, layered approach to building up an image, which is often based on a geometric symbol, or they are what Gimblett terms ‘quick, with no mind', (a reference to Zen painting).
This exhibition explores a selection of works on paper from a major donation by Gimblett to the Queensland Art Gallery. As such, the works demonstrate a senior abstractionist¹s career over a long period. Importantly, they reveal the multiple possibilities inherent under the term ‘drawing', as much as they serve to demonstrate the development of an artist's vision. For Gimblett, ‘In the theatre of the paper space, everything is expressive'.
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