“The works contained within Cats and Dogs are not reproductions of paintings or documentation of works in space in the traditional sense. Cats and Dogs is an artist book: a collection of twenty-eight visual combinations—printed, embellished, scanned, manipulated— printed here exclusively for the first time.
Cats and Dogs is, in this way, a container for Max’s visual process and a continuation of his investigative approach to painting, a subject that is largely photographic, materially driven, and transient. While paintings are often encountered by photograph, the works in Cats and Dogs live only within these pages. The process of distilling an image over and over does not mediate a separate original but instead makes the act of looking inseparable from the form in which it appears.”
