Maxwell Alexander Gallery | 10/14-10/15 | Los Angeles

10 Years On

Maxwell Alexander Gallery celebrates 10 years with huge new show in Los Angeles

In 2012, painter Logan Maxwell Hagege and his brother, Beau Alexander, opened up Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Culver City, California. Their primary goal was to have a place to show cutting-edge artwork. But they also realized they had a vision of how a gallery could be run. Kim Cogan, Fire in the Sky, oil on canvas, 30 x 24"

“The initial idea came to us back when Beau was my studio manager. He was managing my shows and ordering my frames and just taking care of the business and advertising side. We would do lunch every day and naturally this idea of a gallery started coming up. I had some unpleasant situations with galleries, and so did some of our friends, and we just wanted a place that would treat artists and collectors a little differently. We wanted to be transparent and honest and just run it our own way,” Hagege says. “And I didn’t want it to be a vanity project, which is how we ended up with a mixture of our names for Maxwell Alexander Gallery—Maxwell is my middle name and Beau uses Alexander as his last name. I knew if my name was not on the gallery other artists would see it as a safe haven. And it worked.”Logan Maxwell Hagege, Runaway Clouds Over a Blue Sky, oil, 52 x 60"

A decade later and the gallery is still going strong, particularly in the realm of Western art, where Hagege is one of the leading figures. But he’s not alone as many of the gallery’s artists are some of the most recognizable artists in the genre, including Ed Mell, Eric Bowman, Brett Allen Johnson, Kim Wiggins, Thomas Blackshear II, Len Chmiel and many others. Serge Marshennikov, Pink & Blue Flowers, oil, 18 x 20"

And while those artists hold down the Western scene, the gallery is also known for its contemporary artwork, including classic still life imagery, cityscapes and landscape, figurative and nudes, and much more. Artists include Scott Burdick, Kim Cogan, Josh Elliott, Danny Galieote, David Kassan, Michael Klein, Joshua LaRock, Jeremy Mann, Serge Marshennikov, Joseph Todorovitch and more. What’s remarkable about the gallery and its artists is not just the quality of the work, but also how they are embracing crossover appeal between contemporary and Western. “I think of what we’re doing at the gallery as more curation,” says Hagege. “We want to curate the best art out there and bring it all here to show. We want people to like this work, because it’s the art we like, because these are the artists we want to support.”Jeremy Mann, One, oil, 35 x 35"

Maxwell Alexander Gallery will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a huge new show on October 14 and 15 in Los Angeles. Events kick off on Friday, October 14, with an invite-only preview and dinner. Accompanying the opening night festivities will be a live discussion with Hagege and Alexander led by our sister publication Western Art Collector. There will be an artist panel on Saturday, October 15, followed by the by-draw sale that evening. The Saturday events are open to the public. The gallery is expecting around 75 paintings, including as many as 30 larger works. —

Maxwell Alexander Gallery • 406 W. Pico Boulevard • Los Angeles, CA 90015 • (213) 275-1060 www.maxwellalexandergallery.com