About Kevin Max

Visual punk rock.

Kevin paints mainly with acrylics and oil stick on canvas and his style has been described as ‘Abstract Figurative meets Primitive Pop.’  Max started painting with art therapy, but later realized he had an affinity for the visual arts that had developed over the years through experiences traveling abroad. His influences include Paul Klee, Egon Schiele and Basquiat, although he paints within time constraints and likens the process to ‘visual punk rock.’ ‘I like everything to form fast and without too much contextualizing, Art to me is immediate and mysterious.’

Max is 57 years old and lives in Arrington TN with his wife Amanda, 4 children and 2 cats. 

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  • Kevin has always been on his own planet of art for as long as I’ve known him, which is over two decades now. So to see his genius now spilling out onto canvas seems like a foregone conclusion. It’s beautiful and brilliant and I can’t wait to see where it takes him next.

    - Jeremy Cowart | Artist and Photographer

  • More than a few musicians and singers have taken up painting, usually with mixed results.Kevin Max is different. It is as though his paintings have been waiting in his soul all these years.He has found his voice in Art, one as original and distinctive as his voice in contemporary music.He paints with conviction and purpose and is building a truly significant body of work.

    - Del Rey Loven | Artist and Art Professor

  • Everything Kevin Max creates is infused with his signature verve. As a painter, his eclectic, ever-shifting art style is endlessly paradigm-shifting, effervescent, breath-taking and gloriously unpredictable.

    - Keith Giles | Quoir Publishing

  • Kevin Max has recently found a new way to express his voice. Through his paintings, often stylized figurations of humanoid beings, he tackles the ecstasy and anguish it is to be— a continuation of his interest in what is evident, what is imagined, what is corporeal, and what is alien.

    - Joshua Bennett | Manager of Tinney Contemporary Gallery Nashville

  • Kevin’s work is like De Kooning and Basquiat had a baby and Paul Klee is the Godfather.

    - Normon Jean Roy | Photographer

  • Like Blake, Bowie and Beck, Kevin Max gets it: Some crises call for art.

    - David Dark | Author, Professor at Belmont University