Fine Art Portfolio
Selected Works
Max Del Bosque's work marries his innate understanding of color with a deep love of layered line and form. Mixed material media and collaged ephemera act as signifiers of daily existence. Incorporating intentionally saved material is visual documentation of the very process of paying attention. Text and language are frequently used to create narrative rhythm. It is always pared down, thoughtfully simplistic—direct stylistic nods to his love of childhood picture books and post-colonial Mexican Ex-voto tradition of paintings.
Max's art suspends and distorts both time and space, harkening to both Dreamtime and direct reference to Latin American literary magical realism. This is evoked through his deliberate distortions of scale and space, use of symbol and metaphor, as well as in oblique hints of story and dialogue. He creates scenes that never blatantly “tell” but remain forever open ended—intentionally done to allow his viewer to enter these dream like spaces and tap into their own associative meaning.
A common theme that runs through his work is identity. Identity as it relates to gender and gender roles, ethnicity, class, and race, as well as the internal experience of home as both physical and psychic place. As such, his art is intended as a remedio. A healing response to the disconnect of post-colonial wanderings. A refugio for finding one's center amid the diaspora. Max Del Bosque's art serves as a bridge that can carry us to and from the liminal spaces we inhabit, long to arrive at, or wish to leave behind.
