Jonathan's profile
Name: Jonathan Maxwell
Born: Baltimore MD 1969
I graduated from MICA in 1991 with a BFA in General Fine Arts. A few years after graduating, I started designing and making furniture,in addition to making mixed media paintings. The furniture work grew and demanded most of my time making new designs and completing commissions. I have been able to make a living designing and building furniture, but I have always reserved a section of my shop for a painting studio. This is where I feel the most creative and I love taking the skills I have developed from making furniture and applying them more expressively in my assemblage/ mixed media paintings. Currently, I live and work in Baltimore with my wife and son.
Artist Statement 2025
My current work focuses on the contrast between the world outside ourselves (the world as it is) and the world within ourselves (the realm of human concern). With this work, I aim to elicit a feeling or emotion through a poetic use of images and objects. To achieve this result I incorporate a mixed-media approach, using materials such as paint, photography, collage, etc., on panels made of metal or MDF. I find the specific quality of pinhole photography and the expressive capacity of paint, combined with sculptural objects, provide a compelling vehicle for investigating the elusive qualities of perception and memory.
Jonathan Maxwell
