NEW ART, NEW WEBSITE
Welcome to our new, improved website! We are still working on certain sections, but wanted to launch the new site now! Nicole Huff has done a really great job working with me on this new website for almost a year. It is an artistic creation in itself!
Viewer Warning: This website is not your normal, “commercial” website! It is much more. It can touch your spirit. We have hundreds of letters to prove this is true. Yes, the website catalogs my art and creative process, but it goes much deeper. This site shares my artistic and spiritual understanding of imagination, life and God. We want this website to be functional, beautiful, informative, educational and inspirational. We also want it to be a genuine blessing to everyone who visits, for a variety of reasons. If you need art, we can help you. If you need God, we can help you.
You can spend minutes, or days on this website since it features a lifetime of creative and spiritual experiences. You will find my writing, photography, architecture, drawings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry and a variety of high quality art gifts, created from the imagination of one artist. My two dimensional art mediums include oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pen and ink. My sculptural mediums include gold, silver, bronze, brass, copper, steel, pewter, zinc and resin. My artistic styles vary from realistic to impressionistic, abstract to surrealistic. My artwork ranges in size from 3/4” to 77’7” tall; from one ounce to 70 tons. Art prices start at $4 and go to over a million dollars. However, no matter the size, medium or price, my goal has always been to create meaningful artwork of exceptional quality design, at competitive prices.
God made me an artist and designer when I was born in 1951. Thanks to great parents, grandparents, teachers and mentors, I learned to use my God-given “natural” gifts. In the spring of 1978, my wife, Sherry and I started our own “fine art” business in Woodville, TX. We haven’t had a “real” job since, but we have eaten a lot of squirrels, venison and potatoes!
By the grace of God, my artwork is now collected in all 50 states and more than two dozen countries. It is owned by Presidents, Governors, leaders of business, and the stars of TV, movies, music and sports. Many well known Christians have owned my art. These include Pope John Paul, Billy and Franklin Graham, James Dobson, Rick Warren, Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts, Bill Bright, and Paul Crouch to name a few. Today, my art is primarily sold though this website, by direct mail and at selected art shows. Currently, several of my Christian sculptures are in the “Let There Be Light” traveling exhibition which ends in Paris, France, after shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas and Atlanta.
Reader, please understand, any success I may have achieved during my lifetime is only possible because of God’s gifts, favor and grace. Sherry and I stand amazed at what God has done for us over the years. Know this, what God has done for us, He can do for you, if you seek and obey Him. God has a great plan and a destiny for your life, but it won’t happen until you yield your will to His. Click here to learn more about discovering your spiritual inheritance.
BACK AT THE RANCH
Sherry, (who caught me back in 1970 and married me in August of 1975) no longer HAS to work in our family business. These days, you are more likely to find Sherry hugging some animal, most of whom are wild. Click here to see “Sherry’s Animals”. She is a modern day “Elly Mae Clampett”, Mrs. Noah, or Eve! Sherry has a God-given anointing with the wild animals. The Lord has given her the desires of her heart!
In the old days, Sherry used her bow and arrow to hunt wild animals with me. Now she just prays them up and then hugs them! Sherry also has a rule at our 126 acre ranch: “If it is named and tamed, it can’t be aimed!” This has really messed up my archery hunting, but I must admit I love seeing the great variety of wild creatures everyday, just a few feet away!
Thankfully, we now have some great employees who help us run our art/design business, and hundreds of others at foundries who work on my art. We do our work here at our “not-open-to-the public” studio, shop and office, located on our Hill Country ranch. Production Manager, and good friend, Jose D. Mendoza, has worked for us since 1987. Ryan Huff, our Office Manager does a great job, while his wife, Nicole, works with me on graphics and building our website. (If you would like a “Virtual Tour” of our ranch and passive solar “green” art studio/home, which I designed, Click here.)
Regarding our family, Diana Shay, our only child, married a great young man in 2007, Justin Evans. They are currently living in the Dallas area. They are teaching school and raising a couple of dogs. We miss them, (not the dogs) and hear back every time there is a problem! If you get a chance, visit Justin’s website: www.basketballtruth.com to see how the Lord is using him in a great way.
By the grace of God, and because of your support, our business has survived this poor economy! I told Sherry that if things got really tough, we would have to eat her pet animals! I got the impression it might be my “last supper”! So, Sherry and I (and her animals) want to thank all of you who have purchased my artwork and prayed for us over the years! We hope that my artwork has been a blessing to you, your families, churches and friends!
VICTORY AT "THE EMPTY CROSS"™!
The past five years have been very challenging for me, as we have tried to obey God and build the Sculpture Prayer Garden “vision” the Holy Spirit birthed in us, on 12/9/01. Things got really difficult in December of 2008, when the non-profit ministry we founded, The Coming King Foundation, was sued to stop “The Empty Cross” sculpture from being erected in the 23 acre Sculpture Prayer Garden. The Garden is located on beautiful, private land overlooking Interstate 10, at the main entrance of Kerrville. By the providence of God, it looks like the Holy Land and happens to be at the same latitude as Israel!
“The Empty Cross” is my largest and most ambitious sculpture to date. The sculpture’s exterior (skin) is Cor-tin steel. It will have a permanent, red/brown (blood) colored patina. The 77’7”symbolic cross sculpture, with its seven story 7’ wide center space, and 40’ cross arm, speaks to the Resurrection of Christ, the Narrow Gate, the Light of the world and the Door to eternal life. It is the centerpiece of the free Sculpture Prayer Garden, where visitors will have the opportunity to give their lives to Jesus Christ, after reading the Gospel in multiple languages on 16” “Scripture Tiles.” Sherry and I have donated my art, time and resources for the glory of God.
Since 2005, when the project was first publicly announced in the newspapers, atheists and other opponents of the cross have done everything possible to kill the evangelistic art project and discredit me. On December 8, 2008, our arts foundation was sued in an effort to stop the $2,000,000 (finished) cross sculpture from ever being erected on its $100,000 concrete foundation. The lawsuit ended successfully on March 1, 2010, however it cost our non-profit foundation $200,000 and 15 months.
This frivolous lawsuit was just the latest tactic in a series of unethical, immoral and even illegal attacks against us, our ministry and the cross of Jesus. Expressing faith in Christ publicly is no longer welcomed in America.
By the grace of God, “The Empty Cross” is going up, and millions of people now know about The Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden, because of the lawsuit. Please pray donations come in soon to raise the cross and finish the entire 23 acre, Christ-honoring garden! We are building the Garden on faith, without debt, and trusting that the Lord will finish what He started! After all, the evangelistic Garden was His idea, not mine! Thanks for your financial support and prayers.
Click here for more information on
The Coming King Foundation.
Click here to read the latest News Release about the Sculpture Prayer Garden. |
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Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family came to the Kerrville Garden on 4/5/08 with the CEO of Coca Cola Bottling Consolidated, Frank Harrison; and Chick-fil-A Training Vice President, Mark Conklin. The men prayed for the success of the Kerrville Sculpture Prayer Garden.
(Pictured Max & Sherry Greiner, James Dobson, Justin & Diana Shay Evans.)
Max's newest sculpture composition is the "Lion of Judah" ® The artist is pictured here with the 105% life-size foam carving and his 1/6 life bronze sculpture, which features the
Ten Commandments.
Max's largest sculpture, "The Empty Cross" ™ will soon be erected in "The Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden in Kerrville, TX, over looking Interstate 10.
The 70 ton, 77' 7" cor-tin steel cross was created by Eagle Bronze of Lander WY, at their actual cost, as a gift to God. The cross was delivered to the garden on 10/30/09. Max and Sherry are pictured here with foundry owner and long time friend, Monte Paddleford.
In April of 2010 "The Empty Cross" ™ was sandblasted, as a gift, by painting contractor Randy Choat, with the help of the men from his Kerrville church, Living Waters Assembly of God. This "scourging" of the Cor-tin steel "skin" was necessary so the "pores" of the "metal" could "bleed" and achieve the ultimate red/brown "blood" colored patina. |
