-My Love affair with the water began as a child. Being a South Carolina native, Summers in Pawley's Island shaped my constant longing to be surrounded by water. When I began painting this series over a decade ago, I spent hours studding my subject until I knew it intimately and could paint it from memory. To depict this water feel many transparent layers are painted revealing a glow of light that plays across the slick surface of my subject. I love the abstract feeling this lends to the canvas, the energy is endless. It has since evolved and taken a life of it's own, it is no longer just reflections in the water, these moments in time have become cause and effect, the balance of the light and darkness, and how we are all connected to nature. Elena Madden
Born:
Columbia, SC
Education:
1993 BFA Savannah college of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Awards:
2000 Best of Show Telfair Museum of Art, Juried Exhibition Savannah, GA
1990 Frances Larkin McCommon Scholarship
1987-1990 Gold Key Art Award, Presented by Scholastic Art Awards
1988 Governor's School for the Arts
Exhibitions
- '09 Pressiton art Gallery Miami
- Chasen Galleries Richmond
- '08 2Cargarage Contemporary art gallery Savannah
- '06 Firehouse Gallery Darmariscotta, Maine
- '05-'09 Reign Gallery Newport, RI
- '05 Savannah Gallery Atlanta
- '03-'09 Center of the Earth gallery Charlotte
- '02 Signature gallery Tallahassee
- '01 RED Gallery Savannah
- '01-'09 I. Pickney Simons Gallery, Beaufort, SC
- '02-'05 Golden Pacific Arts, San Diego
- Fogle Fine Art, Jacksonville
- '02-'08 Fish or Cut Bait Gallery, Edisto Island, SC
- 2000-'07 Tyndall Galleries, Durham, NC
- '02Arnold Gallery, Aiken, SC
- '01 Juried Alumni Ex Libris Gallery, Savannah
- City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC
- 1999-2000 Cameo Art Gallery, Columbia, SC
- 1994-1997 Elkenahs’s Gallery, Jackson, TN
- Midtown Gallery, Nashville
Collections
- SCRUB Island Resort British Virgin Islands
- Westin Resort Savannah
- Marina Del Ray Ritz Carlton
- SAS Institute
- The Columbia Convention Center
- JW Marriott in Minneapolis, MN
- JW Marriott Newport Beach, CA
- Chicago Four Seasons
- Memorial Medical Center, Savannah, GA
- Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
- Paula Wallace, Savannah, GA
- Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, Columbia, SC
- The Tennessee Valley Authority
- Strategic Resources, Columbia, SC
- Piedmont Technical College, Greenwood, SC
- Allegra, Columbia, SC
- Wilder Realty, Chapin, SC
- KMC Telecom, Columbia, SC
- Bell South, Columbia, SC
- Capital Associates, Cary, NC
- ALLTEL Stadium Jacksonville,FL.
- Jacksonville Port, Jacksonville, FL.
- Liberty Property Trust, Horsham, PA
