GALLERY BERSHAD
PETER MADDEN
Artist's Statement
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My work is an ongoing, visual journal of everyday reflections, musings, obsessions and memories. I don’t really see myself as an artist, but more as a diarist, inventor, biographer, exhibitionist, archivist, narrator, antenna. Much of the content of my projects evolves from a desire to relate stories: histories, memories, dreams and biographies. I tell these on a small scale appropriate to the intimate subject matter and the detail of the work. Even my larger constructions are composed of several smaller, individual components. I work with the least promising materials: rusted metal, brown paper bags, rubbings, weathered wood, ash, old flowers. I’ve found that common place materials with a past life enrich my work with the mysteries they inherently carry. I enjoy the challenge of taking what we see everyday and reorganizing,transforming, and re-presenting it in a new light, in a manner that poetically charges it. I often use the book format because it allows me to incorporate my interests in collage/assemblage, writing,photography and moving pictures.Generated by a desire to reminisce, teach, preserve and collect, most of my books fall into one of three basic categories: biographies, travel logs and scrap books. For me they area means of expressing admiration and postponing loss,whether of places, events of individuals. |
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Exhibitions (selected)
2000
Between the Lines, Artists’ Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA (one person)
2000 Naked & Nude, Gallery Bershad, Boston,MA
2000 Prevailing Tides, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset MA
2000 Summer Faculty Exhibition, Fine ArtsWork Center, Provincetown, MA
2000 Past,Present,Future, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
1999 Ex Libris, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
1999 Books, Boxes and Boys, William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA (one person)
1999 KFA Artists, Kingdom Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1998 Recent Work, William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA (one person)
1998 10 Years 1989-1999, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
1998 Autobiographics, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA
1997 Three Book Artists, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1997 Three Lives, Fort Point Channel Artists’ Community Gallery, Boston,
MA 1997 Checkered Past, East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA (one person)
1997 Visual Territory, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
1996 Artists' Books , East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1996 Artists' Books: New Boundaries, Montgomery College, Takoma, MD
1996 Assembled Tales, Cone 10 Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1995 Annual Invitational, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Book Metamorphosis, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
1994 First Loyola Book Arts Invitational, Loyola University, New Orleans,
LA
1994 The Fifth Year, Hellenic College, Boston, MA
1994 Rooms with Views, Newton Arts Center, Boston, MA
1993 Gallery Naga, Boston, MA
1993 Day Without Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1993 Why Artists' Books?, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
1993 Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1993 Self aMUSED, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
1992 Identity + Community, ArtKammer, Boston, MA
1992 Recollections & Journeys, Different Angle Gallery, Boston, MA (one
person)
1992 L x W x H, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1991 Out of the Ordinary, Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA
1991 Summer Group Show, Different Angle Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Active/Reflective, Artists' Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Turning Pages, The Space, Boston, MA
1991 Winter Group Show, Different Angle Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Intricate Narratives, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY
1990 Collage in the 90's, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
1990 Collections, Recollections & Souvenirs, Mass College of Art, Boston,
MA
1990 Pro-Arts Consortium Book Show, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1990 Watch the Sky for Sign of Snow, Alchemy Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Maliotis Cultural Center, Hellenic College, Boston, MA
1989 Fall Video Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1989 Office of Arts and Humanities, State House, Boston, MA
Education
1987-91
Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA
Painting Department. Honors in Painting and Video
1989 Crete Summer Study Program Georgoupolis, Crete
1983-85 Parson's School of Design New York, NY
1982-83 School of Visual Arts New York, NY
1979-81 Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY
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Awards
1996 St. Botolph Club Foundation Fellowship
1991 Artists' Foundation Printmaking Fellowship
1990 Mass Art - Class of 1941 Award
1990 Mass Art - Russell Coleman Memorial Scholarship
1989 Mass Art - Fine Arts 2-D Auction Award
Related Activities
2000
Juror - The Book as Art: Artists’ Books in New England, Cambridge Art
Association
Lecturer - Museum School Faculty Lecture Series, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
MA
Faculty - Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program,Provincetown, MA
Faculty - Fine Arts Work Center Fall Weekend Workshops, Provincetown, MA
Faculty - Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park,Lincoln, MA
Associate Faculty - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Faculty -Non Toxic Printmaking, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Visiting Artist - South Shore Arts Center Summer Workshops, Cohasset, MA
Visiting Instructor - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Artwork Donor - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
1999 - Presenter - Outwrite Convention - Panel on Artists’ Books, Boston,
MA
Faculty Member - Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program,Provincetown MA
Associate Faculty - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Faculty - Non Toxic Printmaking, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Visiting Artist - South Shore Arts Center Summer Workshops, Cohasset, MA
Visiting Instructor - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Artwork Donor - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
1998 - Host - 3 part cable TV series “Artists’ Books”, Mass
Corp. for Educational Telecommunications
Artist in Residence - Massachusetts College of Art Program Abroad, Skopelos,
Greece
Faculty - Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program,Provincetown MA
Associate Faculty - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Visiting Instructor - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Artwork Donor - Ceramic Project, AIDS Fundraising Benefit (Invitational)
Artwork Donor - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
Artwork Donor - Artcetera, AIDS Fund raising Auction (Invitational)
1997 - Artist in Residence - Massachusetts College of Art Program Abroad,
Skopelos, Greece
Faculty Member - Art New England Summer Workshops, Bennington, VT
Associate Faculty Member - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Area Representative - Artists’ Books & Multiples-School of the Museum
of Fine Arts
Visiting Instructor - Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1996 - Associate Faculty Member - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
MA
Substitute Faculty Member - Art Institute of Boston, (Fall Semester) Boston,
MA
Guest - "Michael Chase Show", WEZB-FM New Orleans, LA
Artwork Donor - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
1995 - Visiting Faculty Member - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
MA
Co-Curator -"A Gathering of Leaves", Boston Public Library, Boston,
MA
Curator - highlights from the artists' book collection of the Morton R.
Godine Library, Massachusetts College of Art, in conjunction with artists'
book panel discussion
Artwork Donor - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
Artwork Donor - "Anything But Paper Prayers" (Invitational) Benefit
for Pediatric AIDS
1994 -
Visiting Faculty Member - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Guest -"One in Ten", WFNX-FM, Boston, broadcast from the Institute
of
Contemporary Art, Boston, MA in conjunction with "Dress Codes" exhibition
Artwork Donor - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
Artwork Donor -"Anything But Paper Prayers" (Invitational) Annual
Benefit
for Pediatric AIDS Instructor - Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA-Book
Arts Workshop
1993 - Visiting Faculty Member - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
MA
Panelist - Houghton Library, Harvard University-Book Arts Panel Discussion
Actor - Paula Gauthier's "Poisson D'Amour" shown internationally
at film festivals
Designer/Consultant -"Wake Up!"(nonprofit AIDS awareness organization)
designed 12 handmade books displayed at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA for
"Day Without Art"
Artwork Donor - Mass College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
Artwork Donor - "Anything But Paper Prayers" (Invitational) Annual
Benefit for Pediatric AIDS
1992 - Artwork Donor - Mass College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
Artwork Donor - "Anything But Paper Prayers" (Invitational) Annual
Benefit for Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Artwork Donor - Club Cafe-Benefit for Boston Living Center
1991 - Instructor -The Space Gallery, Boston, Weekend Book Arts workshop for
children ages 4-7
Artwork Donor - Mass College of Art Annual Auction (Invitational)
Actor - Christopher Corcoran's "The Nancy Merril Show"- shown often
at Boston film and video festivals and video installations.
Public/Corporate Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Houghton Library,Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Morton Godine Library, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Fidlelity Investments, Rotating Corporate Collection
Duxbury Art Complex Museum,Duxbury, MA
Axis Communications,Washington, DC
Published Work
Making Journals by Hand, Jason Thompson, Rockport Press
The Body of the Book in the 20th Century, Susan King, Idaho State University
Press
Non Adhesive Binding (1999 revised edition), Keith Smith, keith smith
BOOKS
Making Memory Books by Hand, Kristina Feliciano,Rockport Press
New Dimensions in Photo Imaging (2000 revised edition), Laura Blacklow, Focal
Press
Why Artists’ Books?, Department of Printing & Graphic Arts, Harvard
University
Ex Libris:Words and Texts, Catherine Mayes/Alice R.M. Hyland, Duxbury Art
Complex Museum
Collage Art, Jennifer Atkinson, Rockport Press
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