Best of 2017

Christian Maychack @ Gregory Lind

by David M. Roth

Christian Maychack’s sculpture insistently references painting. He invokes its conventions and material hierarchies and then violates them, exercising an intuitive, process-based approach. For this series — a blend of precision joinery and detritus aesthetics rendered in Play-Doh hues and textures — he jammed pigment-infused epoxy clay into wood enclosures, interleaving amorphous shapes with hard-edged geometric forms to suggest windows invaded by mutant growths.

• EXHIBITION: Christian Maychack: Reciprocals