Frequencies (May, 2025)
Max Saada and Ferrell Crawley

Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 
Installation of Frequencies (May, 2025). Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 



Max Saada and Ferrell Crawley are pleased to present Frequencies, works that include abstractions of architectural and human forms in dynamic compositions. The artists come from different backgrounds but crossed paths in New York. Crawley and Saada both present distinctly different approaches, yet find common ground in the scale of their gestures and thematic questioning of time. Saada’s carefully crafted paintings are drawn from historical compositions using bold abstractions. Crawley’s subversions of the body play on the senses and associations of transformation affected by time limitations. Saada’s process is calculated and planning-intensive versus Crawley, who works more intuitively and gesturally.

Crawley uses gestalt imagery related to the body to consider interior, physical sensations. The sensations she describes can be related to the complex presence of time on the body. Time takes its toll on our bodies. Crawley aims to expand upon this truth and display how the body reacts through intensity of color and stretching of limbs. In contrast to Crawley, Saada is stripping away from figuration and symbolism to reveal the essence of structure in painting. Saada maintains the importance of traditions and order while bringing forth progressive aesthetics. He aims to describe time through movement, in paths that lead the eye across the canvas. The concept of time as both a limiting and driving factor bonds the works of Crawley and Saada together in an engaging collaboration.


 
Exhibited Works

Max Saada
Composition XXVIII, 2025 
acrylic on canvas
30 x 44 ins. (76.2  x 111.76 cm)


Max Saada
Composition XXXI, 2025 
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 ins. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)



Max Saada
Composition XXVII, 2025 
acrylic on canvas
50 x 65 ins. (127 x 165.1 cm) 
Max Saada
Composition XXIX, 2025 
acrylic on canvas
44 x 43 ins. (111.76 x 109.22 cm)



Max Saada
Composition XXXIII, 2025 
acrylic on canvas
40 x 60 ins. (101.6 x 152.4 cm)


Ferrell Crawley
The Longing, 2024 
oil on canvas 
60 x 72 ins. (152.4 x 182.88 cm

Max Saada
Composition XXXII, 2025 
acrylic on burlap
70 x 62 ins. (177.8 x 157.48 cm)



Ferrell Crawley
Spiraling Out, 2025 
oil on canvas 
60 x 52 ins (152.4 x 132.08 cm)



Ferrell Crawley
In seething frustrations of confinement, a yearning for silence arises., 2025 
oil on canvas 
60 x 48 ins (152.4 x 121.92 cm)

Ferrell Crawley
How far do I have to stretch?, 2025 
oil on canvas 
60 x 60 ins (152.4 x 152.4 cm)


Ferrell Crawley
Hiding Place, 2025 
oil on canvas 
24 x 24 ins (60.98 x 60.98 cm)


Ferrell Crawley
Tight Hips, 2025 
oil on canvas 
32 x 32 ins (81.28 x 81.28 cm) 


Ferrell Crawley & Max Saada
Compositional Frequencies, 2025 
acrylic and watercolor pencil on canvas
44 x 58 ins. (111.76 x 147.32 cm)