Max Shertz was an American contemporary artist. From the time that Max Shertz studied at the Art Students League in New York with Hans Hofmann, the renowned American-German artist teacher, Max created his art in a spontaneous manner with no pre-conceived ideas – what Andre Masson termed “automatism.”  Never veering away from this approach, Max’ art went from figurative works in the 60’s and 70’s to semi-abstracts in the 80’s to mostly abstract works starting in the early 90’s with a new process, calling his work “Art of the Unconscious” and wrote a series of essays about his new artistic process tiled “Frontiers of Ecstasy”, excerpts of it are inserted in this website. Throughout his artistic career Max befriended many well-known artists of his time, to name a few, Boris Deutsch, Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, William de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Dickenborn.