The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is pleased to present Hybrid Prototype, the 2010 Collectors Club print by Maxx Sizeler. The 11" x 15" screen print limited edition print of 325 is available exclusively for members of the CAC.

Maxx Sizeler is a mixed media artist who received a MFA from The University of New Orleans in 2001, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design New York in 1988, with a year at Parsons at the American College in Paris 1986. Maxx's installations include: The Morphing Mobility of Two and Fro (CAC; Leslie-Lohman Foundation, New York; St. Claude Collective: Prospect 1 satellite exhibition, New Orleans); Working Drawings For Gender (Delgado University, New Orleans); Questioning the Pink/blueprint of Gender (University of New Orleans); Picking Up The Pieces (Barrister's Gallery New Orleans; Femina Potens, San Francisco); and Gender Remix: Working Drawings II, (CAC; Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette).

Recent exhibitions include: Hot Up Here (CAC and Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA); Southern Open (Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA); St. Claude Collective at Universal Furniture (Prospect 1 satellite exhibition New Orleans); Queerity (Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA,); Changing Landscapes (Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA); Water Consciousness (Grand Isle's sixth Annual, Grand Isle, LA); Picking Up the Pieces (Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA); Neighborhoods: art in gutted houses (New Orleans, LA); Woman With Guns (Delgado University, New Orleans, LA); The Culture of Queer, (Leslie-Lohman Foundation, New York, NY).

Maxx lives and works in New Orleans. Maxx is represented by Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Artist's Statement:

"Shoes, toy cars, and the colors, pink, blue and yellow, are elements I use in the work for their relationship to gender and the body. Shoes function as a kind of pedestal for the body, and shoe designs hold many of society's generally accepted and stereotypical views of gender. Moving vehicles have become extensions of the body and signs of power; and both shoes and vehicles are fetish objects for the body/gender hybrid. The colors pink for 'girl,' blue for 'boy,' and yellow for 'neutral' (or as I use it to represent everyone in between the binaries of girl and boy) are colors parents often use to identify the gender of a newborn at birth. This phenomenon occurs long before children have the ability to form their own ideas and feelings of their own gender."

Maxx Sizeler joins previous Collectors Club print artists Skylar Fein, Chris Jahncke, Teresa Cole, Debra Howell, Raine Bedsole, Joyce Harris Mayer, Alan Gerson, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Wayne Amedee, Doyle Gertjejensen, Cheryl Hayes, Gerald Cannon, Jan Gilbert, Jacqueline Bishop, Herbert Singleton, Douglas Bougeois, George Dureau, Emery Clark, Robert Gordy, and Ida Kohlmeyer. For more information on becoming a member of the CAC, call (504) 528-3805

Feel free to inquire about availability of past editions.