Urban sketching, sketching people and places
Max Ferguson learned the discipline for his meticulously rendered oil paintings while doing animated films as a teenager, graduating from New York University film school when he was 20. But it was while spending a year at an art school in Amsterdam that his interest switched to painting. He was, and continues to be, greatly …
The painting series entitled Waiting depicts the urban individual’s yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, an anguish of unfulfilled anticipation. At first, the series, begun in 2001, depicted travelers waiting underground. But as the paintings …
