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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 University in 1980, but his trajectory shifted during a year spent at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. It was there, at age 19, that his focus moved from the moving image to the stillness of oil on canvas. The transition from film to painting was rapid and decisive. Within mont…