An amalgamation of the academic and the modern.

Born in Hartford in 1954, Max Coyer studied at Trinity College before moving to New York, where he found himself well-suited to its half-bohemian, half-modernist feel. His work — exhibited at the Harm Bouckaert Gallery in New York, the Dalsheimer Gallery of Baltimore, and the Louis Newman Galleries of Beverly Hills — drew equally on academic and modernist traditions into what he called “synthetic art.”