Max Van Pelt

Maxwell Van Pelt grew up in Boulder, Colorado. In 2011 Max graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College, where he studied Studio Art with a concentration in Architecture. His Honors Thesis - in sculpture and drawing - was awarded the Jonathan B. Rintels Prize for the outstanding undergraduate th…

Issuing from observation, my work draws a language of abstraction to realize meaning through the acts and processes of making. I promote the unfamiliar and demote balance, continually pushing to see my work with fresh perspective. My curiosity about the meaning and fabrication of objects lies in how…