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PAVEL ZOUBOK - ARTIST: Max Greis

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2015 · Entertainment

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MAX GREIS: SAMSARA
April 23 - May 23, 2015  
Opening Reception: 
Thursday, April 23, 2015 from 6-8pm

Pavel Zoubok Gallery invites you to a debut solo 
exhibition by New York artist MAX GREIS, whose 
collage paintings, video projections on panel and 
miniature dioramas explore the dual notions of 
technological and natural evolution. Utilizing 
collage across multiple media, these hybrid 
landscapes interweave awe in nature with themes 
of war, ecological ruin and the loss of native 
culture.

Greis’ miraculous, apocalyptic landscapes picture 
the effects of modernity on our shared terrain. 
Informed by a global spectrum of art historical 
traditions, his collage paintings are ominous 
panoramas constructed from a range of natural, 
industrial, military and architectural imagery. With 
their multiple suns, rising moons and shifting 
horizons, these fantastical worlds evoke the 
ethereal atmosphere of Surrealist paintings, while 
their floating, non-linear compositions are drawn 
from Chinese hand-scrolls and Japanese 
woodblock prints. Greis’ hybrid practice conveys a 
hyper-awareness of time that is uniquely 
contemporary, while still drawing from Old 
Masters such as Bosch and Bruegel.

The six video works that anchor the exhibition 
evolve directly out of the artist’s collage 
paintings. Utilizing clips sourced from 
documentary footage and collaged into unified 
moving scenes, these digital landscapes are 
projected onto paintings on panel. Merging the 
hand quality of paint with the temporal nature of 
video, these constructed scenes enable 
transformation and disintegration, creating a new 
vision of landscape painting. These works are 
further complimented by a series of miniature 
dioramas wherein Greis constructs and distorts 
historical narratives, inspired by juxtapositions of 
environment and artifact in museums of natural 
history. These intricately detailed tableaux conjure 
the illusion of spatial and cultural depth within 
mere centimeters.

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