Working Deep

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ARTIST PORTFOLIO

Keith Maddy
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

A portfolio of Maddy’s work appears in Kolaj #17. To see this portfolio and others from the issue, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.
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My collages are complex exercises in precision, detail, composition, colour, movement and a sense of joy and playfulness

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A native of Massachusetts, Maddy works out of the historic Fenway Studios in Boston. He is a product of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has exhibited extensively in the greater Boston area. Several of his collages were featured in Mixed Media Collage by Quarry Books in 2007; 100 Boston Artists by Schiffer Publishing in 2012 and Cloth Paper Scissors by Interweave Press in 2013. See more of his work in the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory.

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Images by Keith Maddy

Top: Moving Still (11″x11″; collage; 2015)

Centre: Moving Still (detail) (11″x11″; collage; 2015)

Bottom: Touch of Yellow (11″x11″; collage; 2014)