This body of work make use of imagery from corporate brochures, logos, promotional photography and digitally-manipulated photos. The utilitarian, the familiar, the everyday associations are stripped from this iconography by shifting and varying the shapes and hues of these source materials. Some themes have recognizable elements; however, they do not exist in an illusory space. These accumulations of disparate images are on different planes, often melting into the compositional dynamics. Sometimes they grow out organically from the painting process. Geometry takes on a gestural twist, as it becomes a pictorial language. The painting's structure and lyricism coexist as they merge on an elastic plane.

Madarasz was the Director of the Tate Chelsea Gallery in New York, was the author of various videos, including the Venice Printing Workshop, held teaching jobs at the Cooper Union,the Harlem School of the Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He also worked in the summer residency at Saint Michael College, Berlington, Vermont. He was born in Hungary, lives and works in NewYork.

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