Thanks so much to the Urban List Melbourne for the great endorsement of TWFINEART. The chic online shoppers guide just published their Top Picks for Buying Art Online and included us on the list. We are so happy to be included! Big thank you to their Melbourne editor Pip for the inclusion!

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Max Presneill is a Los Angeles based artist and curator, originally from London, UK.

[caption id="attachment_14528" align="alignleft" width="500"] Redact 024, 2014. Limited Edition Print by Max Presneill[/caption]

As an artist he has shown throughout the world including New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Sydney, Guangzhou and Tokyo and is represented by the Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills and Gallery Lara in Tokyo as well as the Durden & Ray collective. His work has been included in the Istanbul Biennial and the Yokohama Triennial as well as recently at the UCITY Art Museum in Guangzhou, Campbell Works in London, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, and Norte Maar in New York. He has upcoming shows in 2015 including the Freies Museum in Berlin, Hilger Contemporary in Vienna, Espace des Arts Sans Frontieres, Paris and others. His paintings deal with memory, identity, existential states and the possibility of political action through painting. 

Currently he is the Head Curator for the Torrance Art Museum as well as Curatorial Director of ARTRA Curatorial, an independent curatorial projects management team who organize international exhibition exchanges as well as the MAS ATTACK series of pop-up exhibitions. He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having organized exhibitions for museums, institutes and galleries in the US and UK, the Netherlands, Japan, France, Mexico, China, Turkey, Australia, and more. His curatorial interests are with artist led projects, emerging art, new models for curatorial methodologies and an international scope for partnerships and exchanges.

The core ideas in Presneill's practice have always revolved around notions of mortality, the mark as presence and the decisions and choices in painting that imply a type of existentialism. Max is concerned with issues to do with the nature of free will and choice and how invested beliefs in our lives allow us fulfillment – as the act of painting, a process of self-defined questions and answers within a larger language system, is inherently. The paintings concentrate on this act as both a literal thing – the making of a mark of presence, as well as a metaphor for the philosophical position.

Another important thread is the possibility of a political awareness engaging the viewer through the process of abstraction. The key word for Presneill over the last year has been REDACTED or our current relationship to government, corporate structures, et al, is at present. The zeitgeist of our recent times seems to reflect that distrust. Presneill's hope is that the constant applying of marks and their negation through further marks can act as a reflection of the struggles against Power and the constant battle for supremacy between the People and the interests of Authority.

Visit Max Presneill's PORTFOLIO to see the current selection of limited edition prints.

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Artist Matt Sheridan has been in residence for the past couple of months in Japan creating some wonderful new works. Matt's paintings in motion have been exhibited all across the country thanks to his sponsor Paradise Air. The projected 4 dimensional works have activated not only the facades of buildings but also the internal spaces, transforming the static architecture into  living, breathing monuments. Matt has engaged not only contemporary buildings, but also historical monuments including the last shogun's residence in Kyoto. From loud, engulfing works to small subtle installations, Matt has been busy lighting up Japan and we can't wait to see the new work that will arise from his travels when he returns to LA later this month. [caption id="attachment_14496" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Vanishing Point by Matt Sheridan[/caption]

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Gertrude Stein has long been a source of inspiration for us; from her rule breaking writing to her infamous salon where she hosted meetings and discussions with the avant-garde artists of her generation like Picasso & Matisse. Always a keen lover and supporter of the visual arts, Stein has an infamous quote ' You can either buy clothes or you can buy pictures.' It is this quote that has served as an inspiration for our latest shoot. Some of our young collectors shed their clothing for their love of art, and together with photographer Justin Nicholas of Atmosphere Photography we have captured some fun images of collectors interacting with their TWFINEART limited editions: #love

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We just added a series of new work in limited edition print by Brisbane artist and design aficionado Gert Geyer. After seeing these pieces up on the wall, I couldn't escape the reference to a painting that I love by Charles Demuth 'I saw the figure 5 in gold' 1928. Demuth was a leader of the modernist movement called Precisionism and a group of artists known as the Immaculates. It is believed that the style was coined Precisionism by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) founder and director Alfred H Barr due to the clean edge forms and painterly precision. Subjects mainly included industrial landscapes and the movement is commonly associated with that subject matter, however the artists were not so keen on this pigeon hole believing that nature was an essential part of their work. 'I saw the figure 5 in gold' was inspired by a poem written by William Carlos Willams and my connection with Geyer's new work goes beyond its aesthetic precision to the actual inspiration and subject of the work, which is essentially the poetry of the environment (both urban and natural) being reduced to its absolute minimum form. The manner in which Geyer works, from collage to digital, achieves a level of precision that the Immaculates could really only dream of achieving through paint. Her work in my opinion realizes their goal more completely. It is an exciting retake & homage to a somewhat forgotten movement that is almost 100 years old.

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  [caption id="attachment_14364" align="alignleft" width="517"] I saw the figure 5 in Gold - Charles Demuth 1928[/caption]  

Among the rain

and lights

I saw the figure 5

in gold

on a red

firetruck

moving

tense

unheeded

to gong clangs

siren howls

and wheels rumbling

through the dark city

[caption id="attachment_14224" align="alignright" width="800"] Flame Trees, 2015. Limited Edition Print by Gert Geyer[/caption]

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