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ARTIST BIO — SHORT (150 words)
Maxwell Marshall is a photographic artist creating large-scale Color Field Mandala photographs using historical gum dichromate and photogram darkroom techniques. Working between Biddeford, Maine and Sri Lanka, Marshall's practice emerged from years documenting sacred geometries across Asia and North Africa. Each work is sculpted with light and printed entirely by hand through sustained darkroom experimentation. Marshall has exhibited at The Royal Photographic Society (London), PH21 Gallery (Barcelona), and Soho Photo Gallery (New York).
ARTIST BIO — LONG (500 words)
Maxwell Marshall is a photographic artist whose practice spans two decades of analog image-making across Asia, North Africa, and beyond.
Working first as a documentary street photographer across the continent — with sustained focus in India and Sri Lanka — Marshall developed a deep obsession with the color, geometry, and ritual life embedded in these regions. The sacred geometries painted on faces, woven into temple walls, and embedded in the visual culture became the foundation of his current practice.
Returning to the darkroom, Marshall began translating these observations into large-scale Color Field Mandala photographs using historical gum dichromate and photogram techniques — entirely handmade, entirely analog, sculpted with light and printed by hand.
Each work begins with a photogram — objects arranged on light-sensitive paper and exposed in the darkroom to create geometric foundations. Multiple layers of gum dichromate are then hand-coated and exposed, building color and depth through 8-15 individual exposures over days or weeks.
The result is work that bridges 19th-century printing processes with contemporary abstract expression. Marshall's practice merges Bauhaus minimalism with South Asian color palettes, exploring ancient geometric forms as a universal framework for balance and spatial clarity.
Marshall's work has been exhibited at The Royal Photographic Society (London), PH21 Gallery (Barcelona), Light Art Space (New Mexico), Soho Photo Gallery (New York), and Bakery Photo Collective (Portland, Maine). He trained in gum dichromate printing at Studio Goppo in Shantiniketan, India and maintains studios in Biddeford, Maine and Ella, Sri Lanka.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Maxwell Marshall creates Color Field Mandala photographs using historical gum dichromate and photogram darkroom techniques. His practice distills years of documentary photography across Asia and North Africa into abstracted explorations of geometry, color, and light.
Before the darkroom, Marshall spent years traveling with a 35mm camera, documenting the sacred geometries embedded in visual culture across the continent — temple walls, ritual markings, woven textiles, and architectural forms. These observations became the foundation for his current practice.
Each mandala print begins with a photogram — objects arranged on light-sensitive paper and exposed in the darkroom to create geometric foundations. Multiple layers of gum dichromate are then hand-coated and exposed, building color and depth through 8-15 individual exposures. The result is work that bridges 19th-century printing processes with contemporary abstract expression — entirely analog, sculpted with light, printed by hand.
Marshall's work merges Bauhaus minimalism with South Asian color palettes, exploring ancient geometric forms as a universal framework for balance and spatial clarity. Through sustained darkroom experimentation, the studio becomes an archaeological site — reinterpreting timeless forms through photographic innovation.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
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