FAMILY. 5’ X 6’, MAHOGANY WOOD CARVING

Maxi St. Felix was born in Aquin, Haiti. He began to study art at the age of 19 under his cousin Ludovic Booz who is a well-known sculptor and painter in Haiti. In 1969, St. Felix entered the Haitian Academy where he began his formal art training. He also studied at the Lope de Vega Institute, where he excelled as a sculptor. After five years of study, he opened his studio in Port-au-Prince.

(Medgar Evers College. (19–). The Medgar Evers College art collection. Brooklyn, NY: MEC)

Maxi St. Felix, a student and distant cousin of Mr. Booz’s, displays a number of well-conceived and executed wood carvings. In all of his art, Mr. St. Felix brings an uncanny sense of pride and honesty to his characteristic Haitian style. In ”Birds” (1982) in particular, he conveys a fresh approach, which mixes some of the expressive tendencies of African art, with the spatial and tensional concerns of the early Modernists. (Source)