Contemporary
Contemporary
Max Ferguson
The Urban Chronicler Max Ferguson captures a version of New York City that is already slipping through our fingers. His work focuses on the vanishing urban landscapes of the city and its surroundings, rendered with a precision that feels both immediate and archival. He does not merely paint scenes; he documents the disappearance of specific textures and light. His approach is rooted in a meticulous discipline, a skill he first developed as a teenager through the painstaking process of hand-drawn animated films. This technical rigor eventually led him to a degree in film from New York Universi…
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An Interactive Constellation
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Max Ferguson's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
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Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.