My process knits together disparate realities based on my experience growing up transgender and finding love between Alabama and the online world. By adorning found materials and merging the organic, digital, and synthetic, I am able to connect unused or forgotten things into unified compositions. Whether an old hand-me-down quilt, a miscellaneous piece of plastic, or an obscure digital image, I gradually mold these found forms into paired figures. They are androgynous, animalistic yet human, childlike yet adult. The spaces they exist in are my warped memories of native natural landscapes or digitized maps of the same oceans and landforms that were home to our ancestors. They are connected to the present by embodied physical processes of becoming- working between digital collage, looping animations, and layers of inkjet prints, until I hone in on a clear image within the material– the figures slowly become one with their natural environments. Through this experiential process, I can naturalize my transgender body, experiences, and relationships, and identify where I am in relation to my past, as well as the broader history of humanity as a whole
Instagram: @rebis2005
maxwellleehudson@gmail.com
Max Lee Hudson
maxwellleehudson@gmail.com
Lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama
Родители Лебедя, 2025, SNMcFAI Student Show, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Fisher People, Estate Sale, 2025, Kentuck Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Solo Show: Birmingham Loves Tuscaloosa, 2025, New College Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dear Spanish Mackrel, Boy’s Love Zine, 2025, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Co-curated: Remix Project, 2025, University of Alabama’s English Building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Родители Лебедя, THE SUNBELT: The Convex Inverse of Rings, 2025, East Village Arts, Birmingham, AL.
ODIN DOMA, 2024, The Bells Gallery: ALABAMA, Dothan, Alabama.
где ты, где мы, Are We There Yet?, 2024, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Alabama.
Rubberneckin’, Just up the Road, 2024, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
Parallelisme, Nokia, and Radio, Student Group Show, 2023, Alabama School of Fine Arts Birmingham, Alabama.
Magi Project-108, MICA Pre-College Film Exhibition, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland.
Anomalocaris, 2023, Statewide High School Juried Art Exhibit, Columbiana, Alabama.
Nikephoros I, 2022, Sloss Metal Arts Apprenticeship Program Show, Birmingham, Alabama.
Sloss Metal Arts Apprenticeship Program (2022), Birmingham Alabama
MICA Pre-College Film and Video (2023), Baltimore, Maryland
Alabama School of Fine Arts (2018-2024), Birmingham Alabama
University of Alabama BFA Program (2024-Present), Tuscaloosa, Alabama