You probably haven’t seen much new fine art photography from Michelle Magdalena Maddox. In the past she’s done political photo essays about the reactor core meltdown at Fukushima, she’s done quiet studies of country roads and sea shells, and nudes, almost exclusively tall, slender women draped all over the landscape of Big Sur or half submerged in pools of milky liquid (Annie Lebovitz style).
“There is a stillness and reverence consistent in the fine art work that I craft,” she writes in an email. “An honest and gentle awareness of the fragility and miracle of life itself.”
She says she left the game for a while to concentrate on commercial photography, advertising and weddings, but is ready to return. This Friday is the opening of a show of new work at Exposed.
But don’t call it a comeback. Resurgence is the title of the show.
“Resurgence is a primal calling to the power of the pure feminine iconography as a bridge to nature itself,” she says.
It’s a return to form: nude women posed in contrast against a craggy rock on a beach, or in front of roughly textured bark of trees. They are compiled in a series of portfolios calledResurgence and The Divine Feminine, priced at thousands of dollars for the international market.
“My art is made for those who appreciate the skills and historical context of the darkroom and the essence of vision that I share,” she says.
The art exhibit, however, is free; as they say the best things in life are.