Chris Maddocks  

clmaddocks@gmail.com         

STATEMENT        

No object stands alone or original; every object is preceded – in either our perception or creation. Every image I create is informed by the overlap and interference of culture, experience, history, and perspective.  I am inspired by the collision of competing visions and ideas and portray that clash.  

Often I will begin a work with heavily layered and collaged materials.  With that basis, image making is a process of seeing, discovery and discernment, opposed to a predetermined path to composition and subject/form.  Via this method, I rarely work with isolated figures, instead exploring the result of competing and overlapping forms, narratives and meanings.  The result is an art object that is often unpredictable, schizophrenic, yet beautiful.         

EXHIBITIONS      

2014   

Engendered, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston

Voyage, Golden Thread Gallery, Hartford, CT

Art Speaks, Unframed Gallery, New Paltz, NY

Open Studios, 1581 Gallery, Brookline MA

2007

Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2006

AAF Art Fair - Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY 

Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Silver Whale Gallery, New York, NY

2005

B.A.G Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

White Space Gallery, New Haven, CT

Nurture Art, Spike Gallery, New York, NY 

FdLM Studio, Weehawken, NJ 

Project Creo Gallery, The Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL 

J. Caputo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

SOHO 323, New York, NY 

2004

Silver Whale Gallery, New York, NY 

Dialogue - City Gallery, New Haven, CT