| Max Neutra |
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Born 1978. Venice Beach, California.
Max is known for his “delightfully twisted” aesthetic and wild live painting shows. Fueled by his fascination with the physiological psychology of the creative act, he believes that artistic processes while informed by science, ultimately come from the unconscious limbic system of the brain and are mysterious. “The subject is just an excuse to paint the line. It’s the line itself that speaks, and it always speaks the truth.”
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| 关于此艺术家 |
His first solo exhibition was at age 6. It was at this show that he premiered “Mouse in a House” and “Man Peeing While Playing The Drum”. At age seven, his family moved from Pasadena, CA to a desolate shack in the middle of the dessert near Santa Fe, NM. Over the years, and under the influence of his father’s collection of R. Crumb comics, Max developed a habit of drawing as an escape from the realities of unfamiliar surroundings. Family tension, boredom in school, and eventually boredom at work drove Max into himself. It was only recently (2005) that he began to question and explore the true value and function of all the drawings in the margins of his meeting notes.
Today Max lives in Los Angeles, CA. After a true epiphany, he suddenly dropped everything in order to make as much art as possible. “I have always done what I want to do, but this is the first time I am doing what I feel like I am supposed to do. There is a big difference. Doing what you want gives you a sense of freedom. It makes you feel like you are getting away with something, but, doing what you are supposed to do makes you fell like you are living up to your part in the universal order.”
Max describes his work as “Cold, still rooms where very human acts of passion and angst took place, leaving stains on the wallpaper. You might be able to piece together what happened from the clues left behind, but only I know what really happened. I wasn’t merely a witness, I was the provocateur, and I get to keep the experiences, you can have the pictures.”
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Attack of The Eyebrows
2006 watercolor on paper 20x15 cm |
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Polychromatophilia 9
2007 ink and watercolor on loose canvas 46x61 cm |
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Polychromatophilia 10
2007 ink and watercolor on loose canvas 46x61 cm |
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Polychromatophilia 11
ink and watercolor on loose canvas 46x61 cm |
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Polychromatophilia 12
2007 46x61 |
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Polychromatophilia 14
2007 ink and watercolor on loose canvas 46x61 cm |
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Impression
2008 Mixed 28x36 |
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We are bombarded with an ever increasing amount of information every day. Out of the overwhelming amount of daily sensory assailments, under what conditions does one manage to get through our filter and make an impression? |
Metastatic Lore
2008 Mixed 28x36 |
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In this age of hi-speed information exchange, memories are recorded by electronic devices and stored on the Mother Brain. With the the job of memory storage being taken care of by machines, we humans need not bother with storage, and so we consume the experiences and then pass them on for further consumption by others.
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A Hole In The Net
2008 Mixed 28x36 |
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You see a face. How is it that you have all the tools to be able to tell the species, sex, relative age, color, etc., of this face, yet the particular order of symbols that represent the name of the face eludes you? |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
2000
Graduated from Sound Arts program at Expression Center for New Media.
San Francisco, CA
1997
Graduated from Academy of Communication Arts and Technology with honors.
Santa Fe, NM
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