WAITSBURG-Artist Rachel Maxi is relaxing after a busy Labor Day weekend. Her latest work, Continuing Explorations, opened to a warm reception over the weekend at Art X Agent. The show, consisting of abstract paintings and sculptures, is a departure from her previous work yet maintains the same themes: landscape and architecture.

Maxi has been pushing paint across canvas for over twenty years. She moved to Seattle in 1990 where, working as an art handler for Seattle Art Museum, her work grew both figuratively and literally. The artist began with assemblages from found objects, then, as stu...