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Max Spoerri

New York NY United States

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I have been painting in my studio since the mid-fifties. My teachers were members of The New York School.  I gravitated to Tenth Street, the Cedar Tavern and The Club, a gathering place for the “painting obsessed artist.”

The abstract expressionists were all older than me, and I struggled with what was abstract and personal.

Narrowing what could be included in the picture until it was reduced to the sheen of its surface. Or repetition of the gesture, turning the spontaneous into a tool. The “DRIP” was used to make neo-classical heads. The art world had a new academy.

From the beginning, my work conveyed my thinking; whether it starts as something I have seen or evolved through the act of painting - it is my intention to show my thoughts with paint on a canvas.

In Out of The Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School, my studio at 645 Broadway is mentioned.

In Club Without Walls by Philip Pavia, I am the unidentified figure in the photo with Emanuel Navaretta, Paul Jenkins, Milton Resnick, unidentified, Michael Loew. (Page50)

In Fred McDarrah’s The Artist World in Pictures with Al Held, Peter Sander and me (Page56).

These photos are my degrees.

I worked under Hofmann on two of his mosaics. And, yes, I did carpentry, plumbing, moved furniture, painted houses, and shingled Bill De Kooning’s house.

Max Spoerri 6.22.2009

Studied:
1956-58 Hans Hofmann’s Provincetown and New York Schools
1955-57 Art Students League
1954-55 Cooper Union
1952-53 Adelphi University 

Teaching:
2003-05 Teaching mentor – The Art Institute of Boston – Lesley University
1971-83  Director of Fine Arts, Bayonne Jewish Community Center
1972 Brooklyn College
1971 Guggenheim Museum 
1970 Adelphi University
1966 University of Oregon 

One Man Shows 

2009 Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden “Three Traditions of Painting”
2007 Windsor Whip Art Gallery, Windsor, New York
2005 Windsor Whip Art Gallery, Windsor, New York
1999 De Kattendans, Bergeijk, Holland 
1998 Morgan Rank Gallery, East Hampton
1998 De Drie Swaentjes, Oisterwijk, Holland
1992 Gallery Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1991 Gallery ‘t Weefsel, Nuenen, Holland
1989 City Hall, Lage Mierde, Holland 
1986 NY Botanical Garden-Cary Arboretum, Millbrook, NY
1985 Woonadviescentrum Samen Sterk, Houten, Holland
1984 De Museval, Emmen, Holland
1983 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland 
1983 Gallery Frans ter Horn, Winschoten, Holland
1981-79 Gallery De Heer, Tilburg, Holland
1977 Landmark Gallery, New York City
1975 Rabinovitsch & Guerra Gallery New York City
1973 Spiral Gallery, Boston 
1969 East Hampton Gallery, East Hampton
1966 Musee Municipale d’Antibes, France
1966 University of Oregon Art Museum
1965 Great Jones Gallery, New York City
1963 Griffen Gallery, New York City
1961 Great Jones Gallery, New York City
1958 Sun Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts 

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