Robert Madden

All of the original pieces are limited to a series of 10. Each piece is unique in content, as much of it is repaired or painted over once I've photographed it. It is all found the way you see it. I consider it to be Abstract Expressionism because what I photograph, I then remove from it's environment, creating an entirely new expression. I don't prep or add to any of my photographs. Out of devastating loss, homelessness and feeling untethered to anything, I found beauty in ordinary things, some would say, needed to be discarded, fixed. Intrigued how multiple, random encounters, by various forces, would come together over a period of time, to create an entirely independent, fanciful story, populated with creatures, characters and other beings, I felt compelled to share what I see. I wander into imagination, expanding my capacity to understand; Whatever one can imagine, exists! Worlds open to me through scratches, scrapes, dents, and smudges, in rust and decay and things tossed aside. This work excites me, stimulates me, causes me to think, laugh, even cry, connecting me emotionally to something I remember, or desire to experience or strive to be. Most of all, it has forever changed the way I see my surroundings.

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
PRLog - April 7, 2015 - LOS ANGELES -- 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 o...