Keith Maddy

Untitled
Collage
[5 x 6.25]

Collage, Mixed media, abstract

Vernon Street Studios
20 Vernon Street 7th Floor West

MAP # 57

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Web Site
www.keithmaddy.com

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I work from familiar, domestic materials as the foundation from which to create new images. In each case the process is the same but the materials, usually vintage, vary from textiles, placemats, children’s books and wallpaper to lithograph reproductions of paintings. I choose the materials based on color, pattern and the potential I see within them to be transformed. Drawing over the chosen surface first with graphite then with a woodburning tool, I select parts of the original image to keep creating new shapes and patterns. I edit out what I no longer want by sanding, and covering it. The resulting images are organic, playful and simplified, reminiscent of cells and elements in nature.

Keith Maddy is a Boston-based artist working out of Vernon Street Studios, Somerville, MA. He holds a BFA with distinction from Massachusetts College of Art and is the recipient of several Massachusetts LLC Visual Arts grants. He won second place Best Show in alternative Boston gallery for Surrounded at Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, by the International Association of Art Critics. He has exhibited throughout New England and extensively in the greater Boston area, including the Boston Center for the Arts, City Hall, Logan International Airport, Hynes Convention Center, Mills Gallery, The Distillery, Somerville Museum, Harvard University, Tufts University, Attleboro Museum, and the Danforth Museum, as well as the William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH; Vermont College; and Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY. Several of Maddy’s collages are featured in Mixed Media Collage by Quarry Books, 2007 and in the upcoming 100 Boston Artists by Schiffer Publishing. Two pieces of his were recently acquired by MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Maddy teaches collage workshops at The Provincetown Art Association and Museum as well as his studio. He is represented in the Boston Drawing Project at the Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston and at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.