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hotography is an art form that Max Shuster has made his own. Us- ing found objects that most would consider garbage, Shuster creates unique sculptures that challenge our ways of seeing the world. “I’m constantly amazed by the interpretations others have of my work,” says Shuster. “There’s always been a curi- osity in myself to find more meaning, more conceptual identity in my art, so I enjoy the process of learning.”

A bold surrealist and conceptual artist,

Shuster’s work makes statements about the interaction and coexistence of life forms and technology. Objects like televisions, phones, light bulbs, guns, and sleeping pills are juxtaposed with animal life to illustrate the relationship between the technical and the material, the living and the dead. Originally from Nashville, Shuster has permanently relocated to Los Angeles., drawing on the energy and the pace of a city constantly fighting its own course as it relates to destruction and construction. “We are only dimensionally positioned within the construct of our tangible things on a sensory level, among other ideologi- cal concepts, and accept the rational fate that they bestow on us,” says Shuster. “I am interested in the object’s misinterpre- tation- or more specifically, the object’s anti-defining placement inside it’s other meaningful world.”

Viewers are often viscerally drawn to Shuster’s work, finding themselves

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preting his imagery within their own rela- tion to its subject matter. The interactions and stories that unfold in each of Shuster’s pieces is truly unique and exciting.

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