KEITH MADDY holds a BFA w/distinction from Massachusetts College of Art and is the recipient of several Massachusetts LLC Visual Arts grants. He won 2nd Place Best Show in an alternative Boston Gallery for Surrounded, 2003 at Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville by the AICA. 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, Mills Gallery, The Distillery, Somerville Museum, Harvard Univ., Tufts Univ., Attleboro Museum, Danforth Museum, Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, Nahcotta in Portsmouth NH, Vermont College, and Kentler Drawing Space Brooklyn. Several of Keith’s collages are featured in Mixed Media Collage by Quarry Books, 2007.

Keith works from familiar, domestic materials as the foundation from which to create new images. In each case the process is the same but the materials, often vintage, vary from textiles, placemats, children’s book and wallpaper to lithograph reproductions of paintings. Materials are chosen based on color, pattern and the potential he sees within them to be transformed. Drawing over the chosen surface and selecting parts of the original image to keep, he creates new shapes and patterns. Keith edits out what he no longer wants by sanding, and covering it with gesso, graphite, acrylic, collage and resin. The resulting images are organic, playful and simplified, reminiscent of cells and elements in nature that flourish and interact all around us.