Imagery from corporate brochures, logos, promotional photography and digitally-manipulated photos, "selected, edited, and pieced together separate sections, fragments of pictures, to form a continuous whole, a new composite." (Dictionary) 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 coexist, often melting into the compositional dynamics. Sometimes they grow out organically from the painting process. Geometry takes on a gestural twist, as it becomes pictorial language. The painting's structure and lyricism coexist. 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, Burlington, Vermont. He was born in Hungary, lives and works in New York.

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