Max Talley started painting at the Art Barge near Montauk, Long Island (1. Space Sirens & Men of Leisure), then studied painting with Leatrice Rose at the Art Students League in the ’90s. Since then, he has been featured in group and two-person shows in Manhattan, as well as in California. His art has appeared on CD covers, books, and journals–most recently on Young Ravens Literary Review #7, on Santa Barbara Literary Journal Vol.3 & Vol.9, and on Dames & Doppelgangers, My Secret Place, & Where The Night Breathes Electric books, with art featured in Watershed Review 2019.
Talley’s work has been called “Literary Art” and “Primitive Surrealism.” His early influences were all the surreal artists and German Expressionists like Max Beckmann and George Grosz. His mother and aunt exposed him to Joan Miro and Picasso’s art as a child, and they remain favorites. He paints, mainly in oil over acrylic underpainting on canvas, and lives on a heavily-guarded rocky isle off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.
2. Don’t Stop the Dance 3. Orphans of the Storm
4. Kingdom Come Undone 5. From the Mouth of a Monster 6. Strike Up the Band
7. Theresa in a Jigsaw Sky 8. Kind of Blue My Mind 9. Lady Autumn
10. Don Knotts’ After-Party 11. Napoleon in Rags 12. Bookstore Event
13. Soft Explosion of Fall 14. The Wine Drinker 15. The Night Breathes
16: City Gates at Dawn 17. I Ain’t Scared 18: Do Electric Rabbits Dream of Androids?
19. Shell 20. 1970s Drive-In Movie 21. Sleeper Awakes Into a Dream
22. Destroy Me Gently, Please 23. Santa Fe Psychosis 24. A Desert Forest
25. Difference of Opinion 26. Entranced 27. Trinity Rising
28. A Night Forest 29. Trinity at Trinity, NM
30. Violinist in Weimar Republic 31: Sigmund Freud Marathon 32: Hello-Goodbye
33. Argument at Breakfast 34. Demons of Distraction
35. Approaching Mingland 36. Raptures of the Deep 37. The Inflamed Conductor
