San Diego Hosts Wolves

Max Springer, the native Californian artist, is now returning from northern Europe after several major European exhibitions which premiered at the Museum voor Hedendaags Kunst in Utrecht, Holland.

The show consists of his series of wolves that he has been producing for nearly eight years now. He uses the wolf as a symbol of the love behind the violence of nature. The nurturing part of the wolf is similiar to that of the human. Although wolves kill, they do so in order to survive. The symbol of the wolf can be put into many contexts -- at times, it is dangerous, at times, benevolent.

A native of Los Angeles, California and current resident of San Diego, Max also has lived and worked in his atelier in Utrecht, Holland since 1990. he was born in 1954. He received scholarships to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he studied technical drawing, anatomy, and painting. He began living independently at 17, and in concentrating on his design studies, he focused on conceptual art. In the early 1970's he immersed himself in musical education, receiving scholarships for his work in electronic and ethnological music. Continuing to produce visual work, the music became an important influence on his conceptual work in art. "Sound and light have many commonalties," he observes. "The ideas of frequency, harmony, pattern, rhythm, the beat, etc., govern guidelines within all Arts, especially non-objective art."

His most recent works have examined fetish issues and the dark, repressed aspects of human nature. Many of his other works include non-objective and figurative painting, drawing, sculpture and sculptural painting. Examples were featured in a recent exhibition "Passages" which is a series of sculptural and painted three dimensional works, presented at the Museum voor Hedendaags Kunst in Utrecht in 1993.

A musician as well as a visual artist, Max appeared on his first CD 'Incoming', which was released out of Germany in 1994 . 'The Crackling', a collaboration with John Duncan (due for release in 1995), features Max's ability to transform sampled sound from the accelerator at Stanford University, Palo Alto, into exquisite explorations of sonology. Max is currently collaborating on 3 other CDs, two CD-ROMs, and the video to accompany 'The Crackling'. Integration of the computer as a digital tool is becoming more and more the overwhelming focus for Max Springer.