Max Cheever | Contents
March 9 – March 22, 2026
12-5pm (Closed on Mondays)
Opening reception: March 12th 2026, 5:30-7:30PM

Contents is an exhibition featuring artwork from Max Cheever (SMACT ‘27).

Through the work, the importance of framing is examined through structured methods of communication.

Contents: 8 wooden posts, 4 cardboard boxes, 4 wooden shelves, 2 glass mirrors. Metaphorically: What the work rests upon, within, and around.

Literally: A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else. Paradoxically: How to wander on a path already constructed?

Drawing inspiration from both literary and artistic works, the exhibition seeks to investigate a transformative process: An artwork that initially engages with specific procedural and aesthetic paradigms, when examined, foregrounds fundamentally divergent conceptual, formal, or emotional concerns. In other words, the difference between contents and content: that which can only be engaged with through a reading.

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, March 12th, 5:30PM-7:30PM. The reception will be accompanied with a looped screening of the 3 minute film Look in Bartos Theater that viewers can experience as they please for the duration of the opening. Refreshments will be served.