Max Guy

Gallery 400, a not-for-profit arts space at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), supports contemporary art, architecture, and design through exhibitions, lectures, publications, and programs that prioritize interpretative reflection and critical inquiry. Gallery 400’s mission is to be a contemporary art hub for social interaction, transformative experience, and multi-dimensional learning. Creating a place to connect, Gallery 400 actively positions its exhibitions and public programs as opportunities with which to build community and as avenues for learning in informal social settings. Operating within an urban public university, Gallery 400 offers innovative programming that serves a range of audiences across the fabric of Chicago and UIC’s diverse communities.

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Across sculpture, collage, mask making, and humorous performances, Guy’s practice investigates networks of global trade.

A lecture with Chicago-based artist Max Guy. Across sculpture, collage, mask making, and humorous performances, Guy’s practice investigates networks of global trade. His featured work in Crip*, I’m a Game #1, draws from his experiences as a diabetic to examine cybernetics and the history and uses of the Japanese game Go.Moderated by Denny Mwaura, the two discuss the materiality of light in Guy’s experimental practice with image-making technology, the cultural exchanges between Black American culture and Japan, video games, and theater.Max Guy (b. 1989, McAllen TX) lives in Chicago, IL. received his BFA in 2011 from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; and MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University, Evanston. He has exhibited at the MCA Chicago, Prairie Gallery, Produce Model, and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Malmö Museum of Art, What Pipeline, Detroit; and Galeria Federico Vavassori, Milan. Publications include NewCity, the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic, and Artforum. His bibliography includes &#x27;Sustainable Societies for the Future,&#x27; on Motto Books. He works as Manager of Institutional Giving at Hyde Park Art Center.

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