The New York Sun
January 16, 2023
Gallery Shows Focus on Medium That Best Fits Our Times: Collage
MARIO NAVES
It’s become something of a truism that contemporary life has taken on the character of collage, the artistic medium that had its origins in China more than 2,000 years ago but that took on a startling independence in the 20th century…
Complex Muses
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
May 18 - September 4, 2022
Complex Muses assembled the work of 12 collage-based artists invited to respond to objects from the permanent collection in honor of Art Complex Museum’s anniversary exhibition, ACM @ 50+1
146 Cats, 4 Mice, 4 Fish and 1 Bird
Cats at the Window, 1929, 2.875 x 3.81 inches
I responded to a very small and wonderfully detailed wood cut, Cats at the Window, by children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag. The delicacy of line and attention to detail spoke to me of my own collage process. Paying homage to Gag’s piece, I began sourcing as many familiar, and not so familiar, images of cats from our collective consciousness. Meticulously cutting out the interior and exterior of these figures from vintage children’s books, I created hundreds of lace-like outlines from which to create 146 Cats, 4 Mice, 4 Fish and 1 Bird — honoring not only Wanda Gag: her art, her love of cats and her penchant for storytelling, but also those illustrators who have bemused us with their fantastic felines and of course, to those playful, mischievous and humorous cats themselves.
Heart Strings Violin Project
October 2022
Johnson String Instrument of Newton, MA recognized Breast Cancer Awareness by celebrating the courage of breast cancer survivors and honoring the memory of those lost to the disease. Six Boston area artists were invited to transform an existing violin to bring attention to a disease that claims nearly 42,000 lives each year in the United States. The unique instruments presented were auctioned off with 100% of proceeds benefitting Beth Israel's Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Greater New England Dog Rescue Fundraiser
December, 2022
Original collage “Best of Show” donated and auctioned off with all proceeds benefiting this great cause! Great Dog Rescue New England (GDRNE) is a 501(C)(3) non-profit, shelterless, all-breed rescue group headquartered in Massachusetts. Comprised of volunteers from all over New England who love dogs and want to help those that end up homeless through no fault of their own. Loyal and loving dogs turn up every day in New England and Southern shelters, as owners turn them in or they’re found roaming the streets after being dumped.
To the best of their abilities, evaluations are made on all rescues’ temperament and suitability for living with other dogs, cats, and children. Dogs’ health is checked, shots are up-to-date as well as spaying and neutering. Then they are placed in loving foster homes until they find their very own family. GDRNE’s goal is to meet the needs of each dog as an individual and to assure proper placement in a loving forever home.
Feeling and Memory :: Boston-Based Artist Keith Maddy
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Staff Reporter
Thursday October 31, 2019
Gentle blues and reds stand out against warm, calming tones while striking shapes nestle within loops and arcs and lattices, looking like the products of impeccably-drawn line work. But these artworks are not produced using pen and ink; nor do brushes and paints figure into their creation; and, as easy as it might be to revert to 21st century options like a computer and high-quality printer, Boston-based artist Keith Maddy won't settle for anything that's not palpable in a tactile, as well as visual, sense.
In our modern era of digital media, there are endless possibilities for producing imagery of any kind. Maddy, meticulously cutting and pasting, is indifferent to all that. As a child, colouring books full of characters caught still in motion were a retreat from the outside world to an inner sanctuary of unfettered imagination where play, adventure, and the joyful act of colouring and mark making were intertwined. As an artist, this place inspires him to delve deeper, deconstructing and transforming the material into the creation of new work, equally exuberant and uniquely contemporary. In doing so, he humbly embraces previous generations of Masters inserting and challenging contemporary art of their time with the cutting edge of paper.
Young Masters Art Prize
People’s Choice Award Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
October 7, 2019
Boston Voyager Interview
Today we’d like to introduce you to Keith Maddy.
Keith, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
Always have been a creative person from childhood. Pursued theater in high school and college taking me all the way to London for studies and ultimately returning to the Boston area and applying to Massachusetts College of Art where I received a BFA w/distinction in 1994. Since then I have continued to work various jobs in retail management, including the Artful Hand Gallery in Boston, restaurant/catering work, 2010 US Census and now am a licensed massage therapist the whole time maintaining an art studio first at Vernon Street in Somerville and now at the historic Fenway Studios in Boston pursuing my own creative and unique art…..
August 13, 2018
kolaj #17 2016
Keith Maddy’s collages are a wild ride. Many collage artists work flat and the fragments present themselves arranged on a plane; the occasional overlapping of paper may suggest depth or may simply edit the fragment being covered. Maddy works deep. He builds a plane of images from comic books, old childrens’ stories, and old text books, and works out from there, adding lines and intricately cut out illustrations. The result is a collage that comes at the viewer like a rolling semi-truck in a 3D action movie…
2016