KEITH MADDY Maddy’s imagery begins with familiar vintage materials, such as reproductions of oil paintings, patterned cloth and ephemera. Responding to the material’s lines, forms, color and texture, he sands down surfaces and builds up layers with collage, drawing on top of them with graphite, gesso, a wood burning tool and, in some cases, a blow torch. He edits out portions of the original source material, and then incorporates other elements, creating a new, playful abstract work in which subtle layers overlap each other, and organic shapes flourish and interact. Maddy effectively reinvents his materials and challenges the viewer’s power of perception and recognition. Maddy has exhibited extensively on the east coast at venues including the Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery, and Logan Airport, all in Boston, MA, the Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, the Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, and the Kentler Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY. Maddy’s work can be found on a line of candles by Aunt Sadie’s and will be featured in a new book, Mixed Media Collage, Quarry Books, 2007. He holds a BFA with distinction from Massachusetts College of Art and is the recipient of several Massachusetts LLC Visual Arts grants. In 2003, Maddy was awarded second place for his work in the Brickbottom Gallery exhibition voted Best Show in an Alternative Boston Gallery. Maddy is a Boston based artist working out of Vernon Street Studios, Somerville, MA. Click on image for larger view
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Swimmers
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