Max Ginsburg is a social realist painter in form and content, drawing his inspiration from the energy of New York City and its people. His art expresses his belief in social justice and peace throughout the world.

Ginsburg has exhibited widely. His next one man show will be in September, 2008 at the Martin Luther King Labor Center Gallery 1199, 310 W. 43 St.,N.Y.C. He has won many awards, and is included in museum and private collections. He is also one of America's leading illustrators.

Ginsburg has taught drawing and painting for forty years, first at the High School of Art and Design and later at the School Of Visual Arts, and at the Art Students League of New York where he recently gave a Painting From Life Workshop.

My work is a reflection of my personal and most deeply felt feelings about people and society. I am concerned with both the joys and sorrows, injustices and ironies of life as I see it. I try to follow, in my own way, in the footsteps of the great social realist painters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier, L'hermitte, Repin, and Kollwitz who, for the most part, did not compromise their integrity to conform to the wishes of the establishment of their time. Likewise I am committed to realistic art because it better reflects the dignity of humanity and for this reason I have resisted conforming to the pressure of the art establishment's abstract world of the twentieth century.