Madlyn Petty - 2021

Artist's Statement

Madlyn, or “Madi” Petty, is a current BFA student at Utah State University studying photography. Her work has evolved from live music and concert photography, into a focus on Fine Art photography. Madlyn’s work is an example of where individual aesthetics and political, social, and environmental activism meet. Her work has underlying tones of Surrealism and abstraction, often collaging and blending images together into one.

Often photographing and discussing things that can fall into environmental photography, Madlyn’s images of bodies, landscapes and the relationships between the two, often undergo digital manipulation and construction, in attempts to fool the eye and invite the viewer to explore realities and thoughts beyond their own.

Madlyn has discussed topics such as movement and rhythm in a given environment, the human population’s role in climate change, and also the lasting effects of the human hand within our environment. All of Madlyn’s work aims to disclose the connections we have in the world. Madlyn continues to aim to explore important political, social and environmental topics and issues through observing and photographing the way the human hand has a role in it all.