Christian Maychack was born in upstate New York and lives and works in Queens, NY. He obtained his MFA in Studio Arts from San Francisco State University (2002), and more recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008). The artist combines painting, sculpture and installation into bricolages that seem almost animate, and playfully subversive.   

Maychack’s wall pieces are objects that inhabit the space between sculpture and painting; in eradicating yet emphasizing the distinction between the two, Maychack enables his pieces to hover in a state of indeterminacy and paradox. The suggestion of functionality is present, yet stripped of decisive purpose. These are works that question our ability to navigate the continuum between a functional physical space and abstract pictorial space, while supplying a new framework for a visual field.

In his new body of work, Maychack exposes stripped-down forms, devoid of metaphors. This continuation of his Compound Flat series delves more deeply into the lexicon of painting through the construction of wall objects. In Maychack’s work, the wood and that of the pigmented resin often conflict, only to cohere back into a unified composition in successive moments. Because color is used to connect disparate elements across spatial voids, the voids themselves often act as positive space.