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Acrylic + Latex Paint, Black Pastel and Shellac on Canvas

16” L x 1.5” W x 20” H

2016

Nervous Gender is an acrylic and black pastel painting by Douglas Max Utter. It is signed on the front lower corner of the painting, and was completed in 2016. This specific painting has a subtle cracking effect on the painting which is one of Utter’s signature looks. The cracking does not alter the archival quality of the artwork, and is caused by the layering of acrylic and latex paint. Douglas’ abstract impressions of the human figure are hauntingly beautiful, relaying the artist’s connection to human emotions and moments in history.

Douglas Max Utter is an award winning Cleveland based artist and writer, whose work has been shown extensively since the mid 1980’s, with over forty one- person shows in Cleveland, New York, Phoenix and Germany. Utter’s work in painting and criticism has been recognized with a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship, three Individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Best Painting Award at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show (1987), and journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club and the Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland. He is the recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award.