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Arnold Resident is Carving Herself a Niche in the Local Art Scene
Tag?college student?local art scene?artist's work?masks
From?http://www.chinalightindustry.com/
In the world of Amy Maddox, Navy midshipmen and Army cadets are mere pawns. And they're headed for battle in perpetuity on a gridiron of her making.
Ms. Maddox, 33, of Arnold, is known around town for her intricately carved chess sets depicting the annual Army-Navy football battle.
But Ms. Maddox, a college student who ultimately wants to teach art therapy, also carves competition-level birds, folk art pieces like Caribbean Santas and weathered watermen, and jewelry.
"I've been told that if I remove them from the window, people get disturbed," said Sandra Pezzoli, owner of Gallery 1683 in Annapolis, which sells many of Ms. Maddox's pieces. "We are considered the gallery with the chess sets. They're intricate and have a lot of personality."
Ms. Pezzoli's been showing the artist's work ever since her gallery opened more than three years ago. She became a fan after seeing some of Ms. Maddox's work at an Eastern Shore gallery prior to that, and started buying them just for herself.
"I think with the folk art pieces, it's just the whimsy of it," Ms. Pezzoli said. "The joy that she has making them (comes through)."
Ms. Maddox does her work at her parents' home, both upstairs in a living room filled with plenty of her creations on shelves, and in a basement workshop that partly resembles a wooden wildlife sanctuary because of all the carvings of birds and sea creatures on display.
When she works, her two springer spaniels, Otter and Hana, are never too far from her side.
"I like all of it," said artist Jane Ferguson of Arnold, who also exhibits at Gallery 1683. "I think it's just fabulous. It's darling, it's striking, it's creative - and I wish I could do it."
Ms. Ferguson said the lines of some of Ms. Maddox's pieces look simple, but that masks the true complexity ofher creations. Getting things to look that effortless takes a great amount of talent, she explained.
Ms. Maddox said she's constantly trying to improve, looking for new sources of inspiration and "pushing the envelope" of her carving skills. For the birds she enters in competitions, this means getting them to look "lighter than air," and alive.
For her folk art pieces, this means thinking up a new twist on an old theme, like having Santa dressed for the beach. Fans of her work appreciate her sense of humor in these types of pieces almost as much as the skill it took to create them
"You don't meet many women who have that folk art style," said John Day, a Cecil County bird carver who's familiar with Ms. Maddox's work. "It's very different."
About the Author
Tag：college student，local art scene，artist's work，masks
From：http://www.chinalightindustry.com/
Honestly now..would you think I was gay?
If I told you that:
I call things "pretty". I own a copy of Rent. I don't play sports. I talk with my hands a lot. I put a lot of emphasis in my speech. I can't fix a car, except the basics. I prefer to talk about things like people and what's going on in life instead of sports, cars, or girls, although I do like to talk about girls at times. I'm not into video games. I am into science and the discovery health channel though. I like to play chess. I shop at Old Navy and American Eagle. I love to cook. My clothes have to be clean, wrinkle free and match.
Now what if I told you my apartment is a mess. I can't stand shopping (unless it's Old Navy and American Eagle), I like old school atari (frogger and pacman are awesome) I like beer. I like electronic gadgets of all sorts. I LOVE Sharper Image, and I'm pretty good at science and math, and very independent and live alone.
Honestly, you sound like a number of gays I know. You also sound like a number of heterosexuals I know.
There is nothing which you have written that alone or together would lead me to suspect that you are gay.
Incidentally, I rarely use the word pretty. I do not own a copy of Rent. (I saw it and found it boring.) Although I do not play sports, when I was in college, I was one of the top karate students in my karate classes. I do enjoy talking about cars. I am into Ms. Pacman. I do not play chess. I do not shop at Old Navy or American Eagle. I do not worry about clothes being wrinkle free except for work. All of that being said, I am VERY gay.
The point is that you can not tell someone is gay or not gay based on the stereotypical behaviors of gay/straight. You can only know a person is gay if you know that he is attracted sexually to members of his own sex. And even then, he may be bisexual.
