“In my view, one’s strengths are incredibly important. That’s where people should go, not to their weaknesses, not to the things they have the greatest difficulties with unless, for some reason, they must.”

Max Ginsburg

In the June 2013 issue of Artist’s Magazine, Maureen Bloomfield explores the art of Max Ginsburg.

A Signature Forged in Wrought Iron

When I describe the invitation I received from Ogilvy & Mather to create a sculpture for the lobby of their worldwide headquarters two words come to mind — authenticity & serendipity. It was 2009 and the global advertising agency was moving their worldwide headquarters to 636 Eleventh Avenue on the far west side of midtown…
Half the time my studio looks like a science lab. I like to call it my work in progress. Located in a quiet neighborhood in Brooklyn surrounded by trees, it’s is not far from the Brooklyn Museum. This area has been home to my work for about ten years. Its constant metamorphosis from one project…
My current studio, the fifth studio forge I’ve set up in New York, is located in Orangetown, New York, twenty minutes north of the George Washington Bridge on Palisades Parkway. I’ve been here since 2009. The forge sits outside on a steel plate platform with the equipment I use to form and fabricate stored both…
Ronnie Landfield is one of four painters included in New York Color Field, which explores the “lyrical, color-focused direction” of this important post-Abstract Expressionist movement. At the LewAllen Galleries (Scottsdale, AZ), April 18–May 25, 2013.  
My studio is in a loft in the middle of Hell’s Kitchen in New York City.I have lived and worked here since 1974. I work everyday, or at least every day that I am not teaching. I have models come to my studio, and everything I do is from life. The best parts of the…