Keith Maddy

mixed media

email : keith.maddy@comcast.net
web : www.keithmaddy.com

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statement

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. I draw over the chosen surface and 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 that flourish and interact all around us.

biography

Keith holds a BFA w/distinction from Massachusetts College of Art and is the recipient of several Massachusetts LLC Visual Arts grants. The exhibit Surrounded, at Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville, that he co-curated and participated in, won 2nd Place, Best Show in an Alternative Space, Boston, MA 2004 by the International Art Critics Association. He has exhibited extensively in the greater Boston area including Logan International Airport, Boston Center for the Arts, City Hall, Mills Gallery, The Distillery, Somerville Museum, Harvard Univ., Attleboro Museum, Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, Nahcotta in Portsmouth NH, Vermont College and the Kentler Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY. Keith is represented in the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery, 38 Cameron in Cambridge and at William Scott Gallery Provincetown where new work can be seen May - October 2009.

www.keithmaddy.com
www.williamscottgallery.com