Maxwell Mustardo: Dish-Oriented

Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ May 15 - September 4

It is not often that a young artist's first museum exhibition is a solo exhibition - but there is nothing ordinary or expected about Maxwell and his irreverent and iconoclastic work. The exhibition fleshes out Maxwell’s first mature body of work, his foundational forms. Focusing on the 'anthropophora' the 'stack' and the new 'gadroon' (a classically influenced evolution of his 'toroid'), the installation offers up a lexicon of twisted but historically grounded real-life emojis. Primarily surfaced with sprayed PVC rubber in both nubby matte fluorescent colors and iridescent color-shifting PVC, the artist’s love of glaze has been sidelined by an infatuation with fabulously synthetic surfaces, writ large in this dramatic installation. Museum exhibition information at this link.

 

Exhibition Highlights

Inventory #1961
Purple Toroid, 2022
Glazed stoneware, PVC rubber coating.
38cm.H / 15in.H

Inventory #1972
Pink Stack, 2022
Glazed stoneware, PVC rubber coating.
61cm.H / 24in.H

Inventory #1976
Safety Orange Amphora, 2022
Glazed stoneware, PVC rubber coating.
91.5cm.H / 36in.H

Inventory #1975
Purple Pitcher, 2022
Glazed stoneware, PVC rubber coating.
91.5cm.H / 36in.H

Inventory #1963
Green-Blue Chameleon Stack, 2022
Glazed stoneware, PVC rubber coating.
44.5cm.H / 17.5in.H

Inventory #1978
Green-Blue Chameleon Gadroon (Tall), 2022
Glazed stoneware, PVC rubber coating.
116.8cm.H / 45.98in.H