Max K Elias

Sculptor Max K Elias

Max K Elias in front of his studio in the mountains near Frederick Maryland--close to the Appalachian Trail. Note his welding mask on the right of photo. Most of Max’s sculpture is made from welded steel.

Born into an artistic family, Max K, before college, learned welding at a vocational school and began making sculpture out of welded steel and wood. His later works are almost exclusively made of welded steel with etched or incised details.

Max K began exhibiting in 1960 in local galleries in Washington D.C., and began a long and productive relationship with prestigious Georgetown Day School. During the summers while the school was on hiatus, GDS sponsored art shows which included his artwork, work of his family members, and works by other well-known artists associated with the school as parents or faculty (including Ken Nolan, Dante Radice, David Smith, and Pietro Lazzaro). Recently, the school featured Max K's work in 2 alumni art shows. He also taught Science at GDS, and Myra Elias, his mother, for years headed their art dept . A number of Max's sculptures were purchased by, and hang in, the school.

​ Max K also exhibited, among other venues, in Rotunda shows at the National Gallery of Art (Smithsonian) in D.C., and at annual Society of Washington Artists shows. His home gallery was the Obelisk in Georgetown, which hosted several of his solo shows.

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