MAX KAUFFMAN
United States
b.1981
I have lived in Denver for the better part of 15 years minus a few in Oakland. While most of my career has been playing out in the West, I’m a Midwest guy at heart, having spent my childhood years in Chicago and my more formative years in South Bend, IN.
As a kid, moving from the city to the rural Midwest, I was immediately drawn to nature, the deep woods, the wetlands. As I got older, my interests grew to include skateboarding and live music.
My early style of painting was heavily influenced by music and its undefinability. Music conveys a mood, but you cannot hold it in your hand. You can’t point to it. I explored this fluidity with my art. To this day, improvisation and the idea of worlds within worlds dictates a number of my pieces.
Architecture factors heavily into my work. As a way to tell a story but also as the basis of things- the walls we form in our minds, the memory of a magic place from childhood, and to look at heritage. Using a mental and emotional map of events, objects and places I create images to the best of my recollection. They appear more as patterns than a concrete thing.
“Floater”
Media: Bronze, paint and wood
Size: 10 x 10 x 3 Inches
Year: 2019
Signed
Price: $750
SOLD
“Cloud Tape”
Media: Bronze and paint
Size: 8.5″ Tall with 3.5″ x 3.5″ Base
Year: 2019
Signed
Price: $350
SOLD
