Max Kauffman: Spirit Monuments

LOCATION: Alto Gallery - 1900 35th St, Suite B

CATEGORIES: Art Events | First Fridays

PAST DATE AND TIME:

• Fri, Dec 6, 2024 - Sat, Dec 28, 2024  

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Join us at Alto Gallery on Friday, December 6th, 6-10pm for the opening reception of Spirit Monuments, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Denver-based artist Max Kauffman. Artist in attendance.

ABOUT

This last year I have found solace in familiar buildings.
Coming back to a city I had left, & greeted by old friends. Gathering within these places & picking up where we left off.

What joy comes from somewhere we feel safe!
I have explored ideas of architecture in my work for many years, attempting to convey this idea of sanctuary. For this body of work, I looked to places I've spent time in & felt the magic of. To have others share this sentiment is a new level of connection to what I hope to do.

While building this show I had a lovely chat with Anthony Garcia, who reminded me that these are structures of community. We are left with fewer each year, so I aim to honor them, before they are gone.

BIO

Recently I was told I’m a landscape painter and I quite like that sentiment. I enjoy mixing primitive with the present, acknowledging folk tendencies in my work and a stubborn belief in analog processes.

I have been fortunate to be a full time artist for the last 13 years. I have shown throughout North America in galleries, art fairs and a few museums. In addition to my arts practice I run a small curatorial project called neu folk. The name comes from a show I was quite proud of in 2013, a survey of artists across the globe working in the field of handmade/traditional/folk.

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the woods of South Bend, Indiana. Minus time in Arizona for undergrad and four years in Oakland, the second half of my life has firmly occurred in Colorado.