Meet Max Mather

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Max Mather. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Max below.

Max, thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?

I keep my creativity alive by cultivating a visual language that feels distinct and true to my practice. Consistency with my aesthetic allows me to experiment freely with new concepts and techniques, while still producing work that feels recognizably mine. I’ve intentionally built an expansive art practice — blending digital tools with traditional methods, continuously exploring ways to collage these approaches into something new. I research emerging technologies and media, and pay close attention to artists whose work resonates with me, reflecting on how their methods or themes might intersect with my own. Staying creatively engaged means constantly being in conversation—with materials, with community, and with the evolving world of digital and traditional art.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I’m a multimedia artist whose work explores the intersections of body, technology, and mythology. My practice collages digital software, code, and 3D scanning with tactile, traditional art-making processes. By scanning my own body and manipulating those scans in digital environments, I create characters who move through my work as digital avatars, sculptures, and prints—forming a mythological thread across mediums.

These characters emerge in CGI animation, interactive installations, sculptural forms inspired by 3D printing, and traditional printmaking. My work has been featured in exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum, Meow Wolf Convergence Station, Sie Film Center, CU Denver Experience Gallery, and the Evans School. Many of these exhibitions center public storytelling and identity, and often blur the line between viewer and participant through immersive, community-driven experiences.

Beyond exhibitions, I also work in visual branding. In 2022, I designed the permanent visual identity for Denver Startup Week, the state’s largest entrepreneurship event. My work appears annually across digital platforms and on large-scale event banners and installations, shaping and informing attendees’ experiences across the week-long event.

Most recently, I opened my first solo show, through the portal to the horizon, at Deep Space Drive-In. The exhibition weaves together real-time projection mapping, interactive motion tracking, CGI animation, and physical sculpture to imagine the dance floor as a site of queer memory and myth-making. It explores how fleeting moments—on the dance floor, in the body—can be preserved, expanded, and mythologized through digital and physical forms.

I’m currently focused on expanding my sculpture and printmaking practice, with recent group exhibitions in both Denver and Chicago.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Three qualities have been particularly impactful in my journey include adaptability with technology, a grounded understanding of my local arts community, and the cultivation of a unique artistic voice.

Being adaptive with technology has allowed me to continuously evolve my practice, whether that means learning a new piece of software or integrating emerging tools like motion tracking and projection mapping. Staying curious and flexible with tech keeps my practice open and exploratory, and often introduces me to opportunities I may have otherwise overlooked.

Developing a deep understanding of my local art scene—its rhythms, values, and the people who shape it—has been essential to my growth. Prioritizing authentic relationships grounded in mutual respect and shared creative vision, rather than transactional exchanges, has allowed me to build a community that feels both supportive and inspiring. Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and building relationships within a creative community has helped me find meaningful opportunities, collaborators, and audiences.

Finally, developing my own voice has been the foundation for everything. It’s easy to get pulled in a thousand directions, but consistently returning to what matters to me—both aesthetically and conceptually—has helped me create work that feels resonant and intentional.

My advice for others: stay experimental with materials and techniques, get to know your community by finding shared points of connection, and trust the slow development of your own perspective. Your unique point of view is your most powerful asset.

How can folks who want to work with you connect?

I’m always open to collaboration—especially with folks working at the intersections of art, community, and live experience. I’m particularly drawn to projects involving environmental and spatial design, with a focus on immersive event and entertainment spaces. This includes stage design and interactive installations for live music events, large-scale decorative environments, and visual branding for local businesses. I’m especially excited to collaborate with restaurants, coffee shops, and bars looking to incorporate original artwork that activates and energizes their space.

If you’re interested in working together, feel free to reach out via Instagram: @max.math.art.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://maxmatherart.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/max.math.art/