Prairie Benefit Auction

“Sock and Buskin refer to the comedy/tragedy faces of theatre. In ancient Greece, tragic actors wore a buskin boot, while comic actors wore a thin-soled “sock.” Guy, who has created numerous mask and silhouette works, is more fascinated by the tools used to make traditional masks, often diagrams and silhouettes, than characters and stories. The artist made these two masks by digitally developing a lattice of intersecting silhouettes protruding in the third dimension of what is more typically a flat image of a face. Lawrence Steger, secret about much of his private life, extended that privacy into his creative work, working to obscure what lay behind the mask.” - Gallery 400

Max Guy lives in Chicago. Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage and installation. He uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. Guy received his BFA in 2011 from Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Krannert Museum of Art (Urbana-Champaign); The Renaissance Society, Gallery 400, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Prairie, Produce Model, and Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago); Malmö Museum of Art (Malmo, Sweden); CAVE (Detroit); and Galeria Federico Vavassori (Milan, Italy).

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