max l adams

Max Adams is a practising artist from the American Midwest. He spent his formative years between the Detroit and Chicago metropolitan areas where he studied arts and crafts. He later apprenticed within the Leach studio tradition at East Fork pottery in Asheville, North Carolina.

His fine art practice is informed by these same craft sensibilities. A career in production pottery has emphasised a concern for volume and form, the mark of the hand, precision, consistency, and a rigorous attention to detail. This technical refinement allows for the broader articulation of his artistic vision, whether in sculpture, illustration, or digital design. He explores both figurative and abstract idioms alike.

Systems, patterns, and typologies underpin his creative investigations, especially mechanics of motion and time. His compositions are reiterative; his compositions are sequential. Rather than delineating the figure in motion, Max is drawn toward broader social choreographies—the body politic in motion.

These methods are part of a continued interrogation of the art historical canon—its motifs and archetypes. His stylistic register shifts as it dialogues with a variety of artistic movements. He is particularly drawn to the Spanish masters, American minimalism, comic books and animation.

He currently lives in London after completing an MFA program at the Royal College of Art.