The Artist Maxy

CURRENT WORK
Innovative digital artist
*Max Singer examines gender, sexual identity and societal taboos. Each image is a unique montage utilizing portraits of anonymous Americans from the his personal collection of Cabinet Cards and Carte de Visites from the “Gilded Age – 1865 to 1900”.

They are created using the unique digital PHOTO-EXPRESSIONIST, FOTOGRAFIX and other techniques Max developed over his 35+ year career working with Adobe Creative Suite and similar software.

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PAST WORK

1980s NYC Art Star:
*One of the brashest, most vibrant and challenging exponents of that genre of New York Art loosely known as “Streetstyle/Urban Primitive”.

Late 90s Faux Naif
*Max became enamored with Outsider Art and and the work of French Artist Jean Dubuffet. This led to his series called “FAUX NAIF”.

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Mid 2000s Street Artist known as Chawkman
*His streetart limned a mythical place not unlike NYC. Over a 5-year period he drew over 1500 sidewalk chalk drawings plus another 500+ works on paper as part of his "free art project”.

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Other Creative Projects:
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Self-taught artist
(School of the Street)

{representation}
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peligro 1995 to 2005
bienville collection 1993-95

{exhibitions}
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free art project 2010-2016
the source 2011-12
photonola 5/neophobia 2010
new york public library 2004
snug harbor jazz 2002
peligro 1999
bienville collection 1995
snug harbor 1995
knitting factory 1993
tramps 1991-94
perfect tommmy’s 1990
columbus 1988-91
heartbreak 1987
deville 1985
newspace 1983

{reviews/write-ups}
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artnews
new york magazine
art news
dna-info
print
high times greatest hits
art direction
the new illustration

[commissions}
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orleans restaurant
shamir shah, architect

{collections}
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rothfos corporation
cubic consulting
snug harbor
cyrille neville
paul prudhomme
leo nocentelli
leo sachs
ann ritter
new orleans historical collection