Maxwell Hendler

Maxwell Hendler (born 1938) is a California artist whose paintings were the first by a contemporary artist to hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1975. His work has been characterized by dramatic shifts in style that have encapsulated larger trends in art.

His early work, dating from the 1960s to the mid-1970s was exemplified by a painstakingly precise approach which bore a strong resemblance to the work being produced by artists associated with the Photorealism movement of the time. However, contrary to Photorealist-type paintings, Hendler's work was produced from direct observation, not by working from photographs. His paintings were usually small, most were less than 12 inches square. In addition, Hendler's meticulous attention to detail meant he created relatively few of these works - approximately five paintings between 1965 and 1975.

By the 1980s, Hendler began producing work that featured painted words and textured grounds. Many of these works synthesize idioms of Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art practices, often all in one work.

In 1990, Hendler produced the first of his poured and polished polyester resin paintings, which he continues to produce. These works feature monochromatic and highly polished surfaces in a range of sizes and proportions.

Chronology

1938

1955

Education

1960

1962

1962-64

Solo Exhibitions

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Selected Group Exhibitions

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Selected Museum Collections

Buck Collection, Laguna Beach, CA
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Weisman Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA

Honors and Awards

1974/75

1972/73

1962/63

1961/62

Teaching Experience

1965/66

1967/69

1969/74

1974/76

Selected Articles and Reviews

2008

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1989

1987 Art 9/87, Maxwell Hendler, California Magazine, September

1985

1975

1971

1965

Bibliography

22 Realists, Curated by James K. Monte, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1970

Beyond the Actual, Contemporary California Realist Painting, Curated by Donald Brewer, Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA., 1970

Directly Seen, Curated by Thomas Garver, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, CA., 1970

American Painting 1970, Curated by Peter Selz, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA., 1970

11 Los Angeles Artists, Curated by Maurice Tuchman and Jane Livingston, Hayward Gallery, London, 1971

Separate Realities : Development in California Representational Painting and Sculpture, an Exhibition Organized By the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1973

LA8: Painting and Sculpture 76, Curated by Maurice Tuchman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, Curated by Henry T. Hopkins and Walter Hopps, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1976

a sense of scale, Curated by George Neubert, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA., 1977

Contemporary Naturalism, Works of the 1970s, Curated by Phyllis Stigliano and Janice Parente, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY., 1980

The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection, Curated by Maurice Tuchman and Anne Carnegie Edgerton, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982

Drawings by Painters, Curated by Richard Armstrong, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA., 1982

West Coast Realism, Curated by Lynn Gamwell, The Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA., 1983

American Accents, Curated by Henry Geldzahler, Organized by the US Embassy to Canada.

California: Idioms of Surrealism, Curated by Marie de Alcuaz, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1983

Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Volume One, Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, 1984

Ceeje Revisited, Curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 1984

Crime and Punishment, Reflections of Violence in Contemporary Art, Curated by Jo Farb Hernandez, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA., 1984

American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1986

California A-Z and Return, Curated by John Fitz Gibbon, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH., 1990

Painting Beyond the Idea, Curated by Bennett Roberts, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, 1995

Murder, Curated by John Yau, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA., 1995

Hendler, Huerta, Kauffman, Curated by David Pagel, Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy, 2000

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