Both natural and man-made environments define visual parameters of our surroundings and shape up our perceptions and emotional reactions. We learn from the nature. We still have a long way to go to catch up with nature’s performance. We appreciate natural environment as a place to escape from crowded artificial environments we create – still we do little to preserve it or to save it. Thru my artwork I would like to call our attention to some of the issues we are faced with today such as global warming and associated disasters of earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis or other causes inflicted by us such as over development, deforestation, mindless exploitation of existing resources or possibility of a nuclear holocaust.
Voy has been active in the Chicago architectural arena since 1966. When he came to Chicago from Paris, – where he participated in many group and one man exhibits, he secured himself a job with the prominent architectural firm of C.F. Murphy and Associates and the following spring he staged a show of oil paintings in the First Federal’s Gallery devoted to the landscapes of Utah and Arizona. These rocky formations of the “Wild West” have made a deep impression on Voy’s imagination. He found them to be the ultimate examples of perfect architecture.
Voy Madeyski – Forest City
Forest City, 2008
I saw Voy Madeyski at Gallerie MK on the Annual CADA Art Walk, May 2010