Scott Madison

Scott Madison is a native of Dallas, Texas.  He received his BA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.  Scott was a founding member of 500 Exposition Gallery in Dallas.  Scott moved to Hoboken, NJ in 1982 and opened a design and fabrication business.  He has designed and fabricated work for Barney’s of New York, Chanel, Cartier, Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Bulgaria and others.

In 2010 he was employed by Harry Winston, Inc. to make a presentation jewelry case for the reseting of the Hope Diamond on the 50th anniversary of its presentation to the Smithsonian Institute.

Scott has received several New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowships in sculpture and metal craft.

Many of Scott’s  boxes are  made from solid aluminum flats.  The drawers rotate around an internal shaft. The interior of each drawer is milled away and the exteriors have milled and sanded decorative patterns.

His pieces are part of the tradition of decorated furniture, although the functionality is not obvious.  Scott uses shape and light to obscure function so that his boxes appear more sculptural than functional, thus shifting the boundaries between sculpture and craft.  

Scott has made sculptural objects from steel, stainless steel, bronze and aluminum in sizes varying from pieces that you can hold in one hand to some six feet tall.  Many are formed from sheets with shapes pressed into them, then shaped, cut and welded together in an additive process.  Others start as a box and are cut, milled and sanded into shape.

Scott has chosen to work in metals because he likes the durability, the feel, the visual presence and the large variety of techniques available to form them.

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