Margin
Max Sorenson
April 1 - April 11, 2025
Reception: April 4, 5-7pm
Panel Discussion: April 5, 1-3pm
Strata Gallery presents Margin, Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson’s first solo exhibition. The exhibition opens April 1st, with a reception on Friday, April 4th from 5-7pm and an artist talk at 6pm. There will also be a free, public event in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Ecology on Saturday, April 5th from 1-3pm featuring presentations from local ecologists, writers, and artists in conversation with the exhibition.
Margin traces both the organic and human-made lines that we find, follow, and help to draw in our home landscapes. The drawings and installations included quietly document the strain that our modern cities place on the native ecosystems they partially replace, asking us all to examine our relationships to order and wildness in the places we call home.
Sorenson has stated, “All of the work is rooted in my experience working in ecological restoration and aligns a landscape-scale ecological tension with a more personal contrast between a sense of wonder for wildness in all its forms and an aesthetic sense of simplicity and minimalism. Much of my work—and my identity—often feel wedged into the space between two things: order and wildness, control and nonpossession, an art and a science.”
Max Sorenson holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Biology from Grinnell College. He has shown work throughout the Midwest and in New Mexico, and he has been a resident artist at the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Cedar Point Biological Station.
Strata Gallery is open from 11 am to 5 pm Tuesday – Saturday. For more information about Strata Gallery, the current exhibit, and the future schedule of events, please visit the Strata Gallery website and Instagram.
Max Sorenson, Leaves/Traces, detail, Gambel oak, 1.5 x 3 in., archival ink on Gambel oak leaf, 2024
Max Sorenson, Gallery, detail, ponderosa, 11.5 x 2 x 1.5 in., india ink on ponderosa, 2024
Max Sorenson, Increase, blue grama, 17.5 x 7 in., graphite and archival ink on paper, 2024
Emerging Artist Program:
This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.