Maggi Hambling: Real time

Artist: Maggi Hambling Title: Maggi Hambling: Real time Year: 2022 Essay: An Ocean Apart. Who Is Maggi Hambling? by Sarah Wilson and Maggi Hambling: On the Edge by James Cahill ISBN: 978-0-89797-350-2 Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc.   Book Format: Hardcover, 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches, 71 pages, 28 color plates   This catalogue is published on the occasion of Real time, the long overdue New York solo debut of the celebrated British painter, Maggi Hambling. The exhibition comprises paintings produced throughout the last decade, drawn predominantly from the artist’s Edge, animal, and Wall of water series. The artist’s most recent Edge paintings depict mountains and polar wastes through bold accumulations of indigo and white. In a sequence of smaller paintings, wild animals are realized in states of movement or flux—alive with predatory energy, wracked with torment, or edging slowly towards death. Close in appearance to ink drawings, these works combine empathy with outrage. Similarly,