Solo Exhibition at Sundance Cinemas Gallery
Photographer Robert Madden selected by Sundance Cinemas
via StudioVox for exclusive Gallery Exhibit
StudioVox is a Los Angeles-based online network for creative professionals and artists. StudioVox serves as the chosen submission and curation platform for artwork to be exhibited at Sundance Cinemas' fine art galleries.
LA BELLE EPOQUE - Robert Madden
via StudioVox for exclusive Gallery Exhibit
StudioVox is a Los Angeles-based online network for creative professionals and artists. StudioVox serves as the chosen submission and curation platform for artwork to be exhibited at Sundance Cinemas' fine art galleries.
LA BELLE EPOQUE - Robert Madden
LOS ANGELES - April 7, 2015 - PRLog -- Fine Art Photographer Robert Madden was selected by Sundance Cinemas Gallery of Robert Redford's Sundance Group for an exclusive exhibition at their Sundance Cinema Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The artist’s work was chosen from a group of local artists who submitted their work for consideration to Sundance via an exclusive partnership with StudioVox.
Robert Madden’s exhibition entitled "La Belle Epoque" will run from late March through June 2015. The exhibit is representative of the artist’s emergence into the light of his own purpose and his hope that like the previous era of La Belle Epoque, the modern age of art and its accessibility to viewers will enable all artists to flourish. The exhibit features large-scale, emotionally charged, abstract printed images that have been captured close up in their natural state, with nothing staged or arranged by the photographer. The resulting works are painterly compositions of everyday objects transformed into new meaning and given new purpose.
Robert Madden cites his main influences being the painters of the Renaissance period, the Dutch Masters, the Impressionists and the Modernists for their emotional observations of subjects and their ability to offer perspectives beyond the perception of what is presented physically. The artist’s process involves a period of quiet introspection and observation, allowing the subjects to appear in their natural state. He says this creates deeper meaning and broader possibilities, “I wander into imagination, expanding my understanding and other worlds open to me through scratches, scrapes, dents, and smudges, in rust and decay and things tossed aside. Mountains, forests, plains, oceans and beaches, otherworldly landscapes and beings that inhabit them begin to appear. This stimulates me and connects me emotionally to something I remember, or desire to experience or strive to be.” A reception for the artist will be held on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7:30PM PST at the Sundance Cinemas Gallery, 8000 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046.
Sundance Cinemas VP of Marketing and Gallery Curator, Nancy Gribler selected Robert to exhibit after having an immediate definitive reaction to his work, "Each and every piece of Robert Madden’s work takes one by surprise. His mixture of mediums neither jar nor shock, but cause one to look closer as each time you see something different." StudioVox CEO, Amanda Slingerland said of Robert’s work, “Robert’s photographs have the dramatic effect of large-scale abstract paintings. His beautifully balanced works move beyond perception contrasting form, color, and texture giving birth to something new and exciting. We are so happy Sundance selected his work for exhibit.”
StudioVox is a Los Angeles-based online network for creative professionals and artists. StudioVox serves as the chosen submission and curation platform for artwork to be exhibited at Sundance Cinemas' fine art galleries in West Hollywood, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and Madison, Wis.
Find more of Robert’s work at https://studiovox.com/members/rlmadden09
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Contact
Denise Alvarado, Dir. of Communications, StudioVox
***@studiovox.com
Robert Madden’s exhibition entitled "La Belle Epoque" will run from late March through June 2015. The exhibit is representative of the artist’s emergence into the light of his own purpose and his hope that like the previous era of La Belle Epoque, the modern age of art and its accessibility to viewers will enable all artists to flourish. The exhibit features large-scale, emotionally charged, abstract printed images that have been captured close up in their natural state, with nothing staged or arranged by the photographer. The resulting works are painterly compositions of everyday objects transformed into new meaning and given new purpose.
Robert Madden cites his main influences being the painters of the Renaissance period, the Dutch Masters, the Impressionists and the Modernists for their emotional observations of subjects and their ability to offer perspectives beyond the perception of what is presented physically. The artist’s process involves a period of quiet introspection and observation, allowing the subjects to appear in their natural state. He says this creates deeper meaning and broader possibilities, “I wander into imagination, expanding my understanding and other worlds open to me through scratches, scrapes, dents, and smudges, in rust and decay and things tossed aside. Mountains, forests, plains, oceans and beaches, otherworldly landscapes and beings that inhabit them begin to appear. This stimulates me and connects me emotionally to something I remember, or desire to experience or strive to be.” A reception for the artist will be held on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7:30PM PST at the Sundance Cinemas Gallery, 8000 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046.
Sundance Cinemas VP of Marketing and Gallery Curator, Nancy Gribler selected Robert to exhibit after having an immediate definitive reaction to his work, "Each and every piece of Robert Madden’s work takes one by surprise. His mixture of mediums neither jar nor shock, but cause one to look closer as each time you see something different." StudioVox CEO, Amanda Slingerland said of Robert’s work, “Robert’s photographs have the dramatic effect of large-scale abstract paintings. His beautifully balanced works move beyond perception contrasting form, color, and texture giving birth to something new and exciting. We are so happy Sundance selected his work for exhibit.”
StudioVox is a Los Angeles-based online network for creative professionals and artists. StudioVox serves as the chosen submission and curation platform for artwork to be exhibited at Sundance Cinemas' fine art galleries in West Hollywood, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and Madison, Wis.
Find more of Robert’s work at https://studiovox.com/members/rlmadden09
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Contact
Denise Alvarado, Dir. of Communications, StudioVox
***@studiovox.com
CREATIVES YOU SHOULD KNOW by STUDIO VOX
CREATIVES YOU SHOULD KNOW by Studio Vox
Robert Madden is a Los Angeles, California based fine art photographer with solid grasp on his life’s purpose, ”Art is the most important thing I do in my life”. For Robert, his art is a culmination of everything he’s done up to now, from sitting with his dad as a child, watching him develop his own film to the art magazine he published celebrating famous and newly emerging artists. When his world seemed to shift on its access, Robert took that as an opportunity to look at things from a different perspective. He says, “I found beauty in ordinary things that others would say needed to be discarded or fixed. I've learned that my experience is determined by my willingness to see beyond the perception presented by my physical eyes. It intrigued me how multiple random encounters, by various forces unknown to each other, would come together over a period of time, to create an entirely independent, fanciful story, populated with creatures, characters and other beings”.
The artist cites his main influences being the painters of the Renaissance period, the Dutch Masters, the Impressionists and the Modernists for their emotional observations of subjects and ability to offer perspectives beyond what is presented physically. Robert’s process involves a period of quiet introspection and observation, allowing the subjects to appear in their natural state, “I wander into imagination, expanding my understanding and other worlds open to me through scratches, scrapes, dents, and smudges, in rust and decay and things tossed aside. Mountains, forests, plains, oceans, otherworldly landscapes and beings that inhabit them begin to appear. This stimulates me and connects me emotionally to something I remember, or desire to experience or strive to be.” The process has its roots in childhood, as he remembers always seeing micro worlds and having a heightened awareness of whole worlds in small things. His hope is that viewers of his work will also be inspired to change their focus to look at their world and consider it through different perspectives.
When drawn to an area to shoot, Robert establishes an almost Zen approach to his surroundings and allows for a natural state to occur. He says, "I generally approach, observe and allow the subjects to appear. This quiet time in the presence of the prospective subject matter, opens me to deeper meaning and broader possibilities." His work features large-scale, emotionally charged, abstract printed images that have been captured close up, with nothing staged or arranged by the photographer. The resulting works are painterly compositions of everyday objects transformed into new meaning and given new purpose. Robert is currently exhibiting his work at Sundance Cinemas Gallery in Los Angeles. You can also see more of his work on StudioVox and his website.
When drawn to an area to shoot, Robert establishes an almost Zen approach to his surroundings and allows for a natural state to occur. He says, "I generally approach, observe and allow the subjects to appear. This quiet time in the presence of the prospective subject matter, opens me to deeper meaning and broader possibilities." His work features large-scale, emotionally charged, abstract printed images that have been captured close up, with nothing staged or arranged by the photographer. The resulting works are painterly compositions of everyday objects transformed into new meaning and given new purpose. Robert is currently exhibiting his work at Sundance Cinemas Gallery in Los Angeles. You can also see more of his work on StudioVox and his website.
Is it fine art or is it photography? The question was tickling me all over as I walked alongside Robert Madden down Hollywood Boulevard. He had a camera casually held in one hand and he'd stop at piles of old furniture dumped on the side of the road ready for collection, to shoot it's nooks and crannies. "I shoot things real up-close, markings, dents and then blow them up and you get the look of an abstract painting." He circled a bookcase leaning against a skip for a while, back and forth, round and round, before finally going in for the kill. "My friends say I must be crazy to see the things I see, I guess they're right."
Having a photographer Dad is bound to unlock the Pandora's box about your iris. Robert spent the 90's producing PROVOCATEUR - a fine arts magazine that received worldwide recognition and five Awards of Excellence - before he went on to produce and package fine art quality photo books. His extra-large pieces are now hanging in private collections all over the US; from Dallas to New York, Provincetown, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco and even in London. Now it's available here. So, what do you think - is it fine art or is it photography? |
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"Robert takes extreme close-up photographs of things we pass by or dismiss everyday, and turns them into painterly compositions that boggle the mind. What you see will blow you away. For example, this image is actually a painted traffic cone." -- James Saavedra
ART TAKES MANHATTAN
Won a competition and had the below two images displayed on the lighted billboards of NYC 's Times Square for a 24 hours period.
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WE MUST WORK TOGETHER
Winner of STAFF WINTER SELECTION 2015
Winner of STAFF WINTER SELECTION 2015
TROJAN WARRIOR
Winner of MEMBER SELECTION AWARD
Winner of MEMBER SELECTION AWARD
BUSY BRANCHES
Awarded for SUPERB COMPOSITION,
OUTSTANDING CREATIVITY and PHOTO TRIFECTA!
Awarded for SUPERB COMPOSITION,
OUTSTANDING CREATIVITY and PHOTO TRIFECTA!