Cruise Control Contemporary is pleased to announce No Return, a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Max Xeno Karnig. No Return features a series of portraits and still life paintings meditating on a painting’s ability to both represent and simultaneously occlude the subject at hand. The images conjured in the paintings more readily resemble a memory, idea, or dream of any given subject than any true photographic image. A metaphysical reconstruction that lies somewhere between the ideal and the surreal. Form itself becomes more predominant than any true resemblance. The image as it is conceived in the mind through an amalgamation of senses becomes its own type of revelation.