exhibitions - Maus Contemporary

CLAYTON COLVIN: THE DESCENT

MARCH 14 - APRIL 25, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MARCH 14 (6-8PM)

Colvin has developed a practice of painting that is both challenging and seductive, using a hybrid of figurative and abstract approaches to create delicate, fantastic, and concrete spaces - the immediate and intimate nature of drawing infusing his paintings with an hypnotic mix of familiarity and mystery. The artist’s recent work continues what critic Cinque Hicks described in Art in America as his “naked search for new answers to old questions.”

LIZA BUTTS: A SPECTRUM OF ECHOES

AUGUST 23 - OCTOBER 18, 2024

Fantastical landscapes are depicted moving, shifting, and glowing. Tangled spaces that are seemingly untraversable bloom and glisten with vibrancy and energy.

The repetitive frames of the paintings - rectangles and squares - serve as a type of sequencing, informed by the artist’s interest in meditative and yogic practices that are used to access the subconscious mind and make subtle changes in the body.

ANA PÉREZ VENTURA

ANA PÉREZ VENTURA: ONE

MAY 17 - AUGUST 9, 2024

Ana Pérez Ventura finds inspiration from a variety of ideas and techniques used in her musical practice as a pianist.

She studied Fine Arts at the Universities of Vigo and Barcelona and Music in the conservatories of Vigo and Amsterdam. In 2011 she obtained a master’s degree in Music at the Sorbonne University on the relations between the two disciplines and since then has resided in Paris, researching the possibilities of interaction between the visual arts and music, with repetition as a fundamental resource.

BETTY SUE MATTHEWS

MAY 17 - AUGUST 9, 2024

Betty Sue Matthews (1944-2018) was a self-taught artist working in unconventional materials, primarily painting on metal sheets, mostly cut-out in the shape of people, animals, or objects such as the school bus shown in this photographic portrait of the artist by Kelly Ludwig. These cut-outs are often painted on both sides.

The Alabama-native artist's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian and the Rosa Parks Museum.

TAMECA COLE

TAMECA COLE: FADE OUT

MARCH 15 - MAY 3, 2024

Art and writing allow me to address my personal demons in a way that doesn’t hurt others. It gives me an outlet to express how the cruelty of my incarceration, injustice, and experience with racism has affected me. It gives me the power to show other human beings how degrading it feels to be Black in America and still live under systemic racism.

I consider my art to be an educator, a weapon, and a thought-provoking conversation about change.

DEREK CRACCO "IN A FLASH"

DEREK CRACCO: IN A FLASH

JANUARY 12 - MARCH 1, 2024

Everything from the quantum aspects of the photon, to more real world instances of aesthetic arrest caused by blinding light are studied. Influences range from astronomy to particle physics, shifting and oscillating between the macro and the micro, between the illusions of light in the works and the visual disruptions the images produce when viewed at close range. Some of the works use light’s ability to conceal to confront how our truths can obscure and how our beliefs can blind...

CLAUDIA CHASELING - SILENT SHADOWS

CLAUDIA CHASELING:

SILENT SHADOWS

OCTOBER 27 - DECEMBER 29

My current work was initiated in 2005 after seeing a documentary by Frieder Wagner addressing the use of depleted uranium weapons. I then looked into the related research of Prof. Dr Siegwart Horst Günther. A number of my works, from the Spatial Paintings to the graphic novels, deal with the factual realities and consequences of how in every conflict zone in which NATO or the US are involved, weapons are used that contain and distribute long-term radioactivity in the form of uranium and plutonium dust...

MELISSA VANDENBERG "I LIKE THE WAY YOU PREY"

MELISSA VANDENBERG:

I LIKE THE WAY YOU PREY

AUGUST 25 - OCTOBER 14, 2023

I like the way you prey. I like your fury. I like your precious things.

Elwyn Brooks White says of Thoreau’s self-imposed exile into the forest…"Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives - the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight."

I like the way you prey is born of both fury and confusion in what is worshiped and elevated to commemoration...

ALABAMA VISUAL ARTS NETWORK - CARE Packages

THE ALABAMA VISUAL ARTS NETWORK:

CARE Packages

AUGUST 25 - OCTOBER 14, 2023

The Alabama Visual Arts Network commissioned twelve acclaimed Alabama artists to create editions of ten artworks. Selected by program creator Paul Barrett, the artists work in a variety of media in all corners of our state.

We are delighted to offer these works of art in ten exclusive sets, of which only a few remain available.

100% of all CARE Packages sales benefit the Alabama Visual Arts Network.

LUCA BUVOLI "DAY 12 - SPACEWALK"

LUCA BUVOLI:

DAY 12 - SPACEWALK

MAY 19 - AUGUST 12, 2023

The silhouette of the astronaut is portrayed as an evanescent shape – not yet appeared or already disappearing. The traces of the heroic performance, painted with liquid (watercolor, gouache), solid (glitter, pencil, and resin), and gaseous materials (spray paint), are stitched with wires and sheets of thin metal that evoke the suit or ”armor” protecting the body from a threatening extraplanetary environment...

Catherine Tafur

CATHERINE TAFUR: FLIGHT

MARCH 10 - MAY 5

The cultural shock of childhood immigration can leave a deep psychic mark, and lead to a lifelong search for identity. My family was able to leave the violence plaguing Peru in the 80s and transplant me into the safety and promise of the US, one the greatest oppressors in the world.

I need to know where I come from. I look back and see the Peru of my childhood, but when I look deeper and further back there’s pre-colonial indigenous Peru...

PULP

WORK ON PAPER | WORK WITH PAPER

DWAYNE BUTCHER, LARRY JENS ANDERSON, JOHN BAKSTON, DOUG BAULOS, JARROD BECK, SHANA BERGER & NATHAN PURATH, CECILIA BIAGINI, JUERGEN BOEHEIMER, SARA CANNON, JOHNNY COLEY, BETHANY JOY COLLINS, CLAYTON COLVIN, JUSTIN COOPER, DEREK CRACCO, N. DASH, JOHN FIELDS, JONATHAN GANN, MONIQUE GIVEN, DEBORAH GRANT, VALERIE GREEN, JONATHAN HICKS, PEREGRINE HONIG, BONARD HUGHINS, DEBORAH KARPMAN, CLAIRE LEWIS EVANS, AARON LOCKHART, SRDJAN LONCAR, TAMEKA NORRIS, AMY PLEASANT, RASHID GANDIL, BABS REINGOLD, SHANA ROBBINS, JOEL ROSS, SUZANNA SAWYER, ELLEN SIEBERS, KIL SOLTHON, VASILE TROIAN, MATT WYCOFF, JOHN WATERS

JULY 29 - AUGUST 31, 2011

	A DOG FROM HELL AARON LOCKHART, DEREK CRACCO, JOHN FIELDS, AMBER HOY, CHELSEA CULPEPPER FEBRUARY 10 - MARCH 3, 2012

	JOEL ROSS: IT'S NOT MY FIRST TIME SEPTEMBER 9 - OCTOBER 22, 2011