Maxwell Kane
Maxwell Kane is a painter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Working primarily in oil and charcoal, his work explores the tactile quality of paintings, devotion, shame, and the tension between the physical and spiritual. Distorted figures embody his work, often drawing from religious symbolism and late nineteenth-century painters. His current series focuses on the “forced” figure—an exploration of the sublime as a crushing force rather than a lifting one, where the flesh is molded by the gravity of an aesthetic experience.