Max Talley started painting at the Art Barge near Montauk, Long Island (1. Space Sirens & Men of Leisure), then studied painting with Leatrice Rose (2. Peace, Love & Haight) at the Art Students League in the ’90s. Since then, he has been featured in group and two-person shows in Manhattan and California. His art has appeared on CDs, books, and journals–most recently Young Ravens Literary Review #7, on Santa Barbara Literary Journal Vol.3 & Vol.9, and on Delirium Corridor, 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.
3. Don’t Stop the Dance 4. Orphans of the Storm
8. Kingdom Come Undone 9. From the Mouth of a Monster 10. Strike Up the Band
11. Theresa in a Jigsaw Sky 12. Kind of Blue My Mind 13. Lady Autumn
14. Don Knotts’ After-Party 15. Napoleon in Rags 16. Bookstore Event
17. Soft Explosion of Fall 18. The Wine Drinker 19. The Night Breathes
20: City Gates at Dawn 21. I Ain’t Scared 22: Gargoyle A-Go Go
23. Shell 24. 1970s Drive-In Movie 25. Sleeper Awakes Into a Dream
26. Destroy Me Gently, Please 27. Santa Fe Psychosis 28. A Desert Forest
29. Difference of Opinion 30. Entranced 31. Trinity Rising
32. A Night Forest 33. Trinity at Trinity, NM
34. Violinist in Weimar Republic 35: Sigmund Freud Marathon 36: Hello-Goodbye
37. Argument at Breakfast 38. Demons of Distraction
39. Approaching Mingland 40. Raptures of the Deep 41. The Inflamed Conductor
