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About Max Sugar

After a longstanding interest in art, which I fulfilled by doodling, visiting galleries and museums, collecting a few pieces, and thinking about taking oil painting classes, I decided that I’d better get going or I’d never get started.  I had practiced child psychiatry in New Orleans for many decades, and figured that retirement might not be decades away, so I’d “better make hay while the sun shines.”  
 
This led me to take night classes for several years, studying drawing, composition and representational oil painting at Tulane University and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
 
My focus shifted when I became aware of the Henry Hensche approach to impressionism painting. Hensche followed in Monet’s footsteps, emphasizing the light key and the full spectrum of color.  He taught this for forty years as director of the Cape Cod School of Art.
 
The search to learn this approach to impressionism led me to plein air painting with instruction and workshops with Hensche students:

Rob Longley  Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, MA
Sammy Britt  Studio One, Gray, LA
Chuck Ceraso Broomfield, CO
Susan Sarback Fair Oaks, CA
John Ebersberger Annapolis, MD
Hilda Neely Provincetown, MA
Diane Trevino New Orleans, LA; weekly for seven years

My work includes landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and still-lifes done in oils, giclees and gouaches.
 
I’ve had the good fortune to be in a number of exhibits in a variety of locations.

Selected Exhibitions

Chez Artiste Theater, Denver, CO One Man Show, April 2010
 Arapahoe County Justice Center, Englewood, CO March 2010
Lakewood Arts Council and Gallery, Lakewood, CO February 2010
Aurora History Museum, Aurora, CO December 2009
Republic Plaza, Denver, CO August-November 2009
Depot Art Center, Littleton, CO August 2009
Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, WA April 2009
Art Raw Gallery, New York, NY February-March 2009
Goodson Recreation Center, Centennial, CO December 2008
Fosters 821 Gallery, Denver, CO December 2007
Aurora History Museum, Aurora, CO October 2007
Art Students League, Denver, CO September 2007
Angler Gallery, Denver, CO August 2007
Buell Theater, Denver, CO December 2006
Ochsner Hospital Art Walk, New Orleans, LA One Man Show, November 2006
Bennett Public Library, Bennett, CO One Man Show, August 2006
Aurora History Museum, Aurora, CO October 2005
Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, LA One Man Show, January 2004
Ochsner Hospital Art Walk, New Orleans, LA One Man Show, October 2003
Ochsner Hospital Art Walk New Orleans, LA One Man Show, January 2003
Longmont, CO July 1998

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