From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the Great Salt Lake, he was struck by the inescapable solitude of the vast stretches of this area, from the absolute flatness of the salt flats to the surreal quality of the marshes. It was this desolate landscape he began to paint in college.
Earning a BFA at the University of Utah, Hammond was formally trained, emphasizing classical figure drawing in addition to his love for landscapes. After winning a trip to Mexico for six weeks, this rural boy was struck by the way the Mexicans used undiluted colors to bring life to what appeared to be stark living conditions. It was at this point that color began to take on a new life in his paintings.
Hammond left Utah to begin a M.F.A. in painting at Arizona State University where he won the prestigious Nathan Cummings Travel Award throughout Latin America, where he was again saturated in a world of color and ancient abstraction. Following his thesis show, he was invited to join the Elaine Horwitch Galleries where he met with instant success.
Hammond’s work is widely collected, and appears in the permanent collections of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Finova Corp., the City of Scottsdale, and the City of Mesa among others. He has had solo shows nearly every year for the past 25 years. His current work occasionally returns to the figures he originally painted where he weaves in and out of abstraction, sometimes almost recognizable, then blurring to pure color, form and texture.
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"Mise En Scene"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old, Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the...
Canvas, Oil
"The Little Red Dress"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old, Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the...
Canvas, Oil
"A Study of Clouds"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old, Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the...
Canvas, Oil
"Rainclouds Over Park"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old, Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the...
Canvas, Oil
"The Uninhabited"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old, Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the...
Canvas, Oil
"Close Call"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Illogically Logical"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
$5,000
H 48 in W 60 in
Peter Walsh 'An NYPD Facial Recognition ‘AI’ Dreams of a Walk in the City'
Located in New York, NY
If a police facial recognition system gained consciousness, wouldn’t it dream of having a physical body to simply stroll in the city instead of monitoring people’s whereabouts? An N...
Canvas, Oil
Peter Walsh 'The Painter at Work'
Located in New York, NY
An incandescent portrait of a painter, morphed into a multiplicity of bodies, based on several Goya etchings. The Painter at Work, 2025 Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas 11 x 1...
Canvas, Oil
$17,975
H 51 in W 48 in
Lime Green with Coral - large, floral, abstracted still life, oil on canvas
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A joyful tapestry of colour greets the viewer’s eye in this oil painting by Jennifer Hornyak. Her series of lovely floral still life’s re-imagine the form and colour palette of tradi...
Canvas, Oil
$7,500
H 22 in W 20 in
"Thelo #5" Diana Kurz, circa 1959 Gestural Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz Thelo #5, circa 1959 Oil on canvas 22 x 20 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to Englan...
Canvas, Oil
Weight Of Air VIII
By Andrew Francis
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Weight of Air VIII, 2019 Oil & wax on deep-fame canvas
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Peter Walsh 'Dataset: Terra Cotta, Marble, Jpeg'
Located in New York, NY
An jarringly colorful abstraction built from images of a terra cotta portrait sculpture, an ancient roman marble bust, and the back of a person’s head in a digital photo. Dataset: T...
Canvas, Oil
Peter Walsh 'Stacked Crowd II'
Located in New York, NY
A candy-colored fragmented walk through urban space. Stacked Crowd II, 2025 Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas 42 x 36 in / 106.68 x 91.44 cm Brooklyn-based artist Peter Walsh ...
Canvas, Oil
$20,000
H 53 in W 41.5 in
"Red Chair" Diana Kurz, 1962 Figurative Expressionist Painting New York School
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz Red Chair, 1962 Signed, titled, dated on verso Oil on canvas 53 x 41 1/2 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family...
Canvas, Oil
Peter Walsh Star-Stuff'
Located in New York, NY
Goya etchings are reworked into a physical abstraction that transforms the painted panel into a bodily surface. Star-Stuff, 2025 Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Panel 14 x 11 in / 3...
Canvas, Oil
$24,000
H 22 in W 30 in
"Cave Drama" Boris Margo, Abstract Surrealism, Surrealist landscape, Modernist
By Boris Margo
Located in New York, NY
Boris Margo Cave Drama, 1938 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 22 x 30 inches Best known as a painter of surrealist imagery, Boris Margo was born in Wolotschisk, Ukraine, i...
Canvas, Oil
$18,000
H 51 in W 48 in
Bronze Leaves with Black and Red - large green, mauve, brown abstract oil
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Expressive layered passages of bronze, periwinkle, red and turquoise with highlights of yellow are framed by dark green foliage in this rich oil on canvas. Poised between abstraction...
Canvas, Oil
Weight Of Air VI
By Andrew Francis
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Weight of Air VI, 2019 Oil & wax on deep-fame canvas
Canvas, Wax, Oil
"La Manchina"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Stackin' Up Stones"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Oil, Wood Panel
"Delphyne"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Wood, Oil
"A Couple of Little Monsters"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the Great Salt Lake, he was struck by the inescapable solitude of the vast stretches of this area, from the absolute flatness of the salt flats to the surreal quality of the marshes. It was this desolate landscape he began to paint in college. Earning a B.F.A. at the University of Utah, Hammond was formally trained, emphasizing classical figure drawing in addition to his love for landscapes. After winning a trip to Mexico for six weeks, this rural boy was struck by the way the Mexicans used undiluted colors to bringlife to what appeared to be stark living conditions. It was at this point that color began to take on a new life in his paintings. Hammond left Utah to begin a M.F.A. in painting at Arizona State University where he won the prestigious Nathan Cummings travel award throughout Latin America, where he was again saturated in a world of color and ancient abstraction. Following his thesis show, he was invited to join the Elaine Horwitch Galleries where he met with instant success. His work is widely collected, and appears in the permanent collections of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Finova Corp., the City of Scottsdale, and the City of Mesa among others. Hammond has had solo shows nearly every year for the past twenty five years. His current work occasionally returns to the figures he originally painted where he weaves in and out of abstraction, sometimes almost recognizable, then blurring to pure color, form and texture. Max Hammond Scottsdale, AZ Education 1989-1992 M.F.A. Arizona State University Painting 1988-1984 B.F.A. University of Utah Painting...
Wood, Oil
"Late, I'm Late, Said the White Rabbit I"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Adrift I"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Sit Down..."
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Sunflower"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Get Your Shoes, I Want to Buy You an Ice Cream II"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Wood, Oil
"Get Your Shoes, I Want to Buy You an Ice Cream I"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Wood, Oil
"She Put Her Head Back and Closed Her Eyes I"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil
"Echo"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Canvas, Oil