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"Maxwell Stevens brings photorealism and abstraction into tension in Surfside, a new series of paintings inspired by summertime along Long Island’s North Atlantic coast. Beachgoers, surfers, families, and fleeting social encounters are rendered with vivid naturalism, then disrupted by sweeping fields of blue, aqua, and teal paint.  The exhibition moves between intimacy and spectacle, using the beach as a setting for youth, desire, memory, and the transience of everyday life." 

-Thought Gallery, 2026