The first time I saw Jeremiah Maddock's work was in 2008 atBushwick's Factory Fresh Gallery. Maddock's pieces are hand-drawn inmarker and involve patterns that useheads, mouths, hands, lines and shapes so intricate and steadythey look like stamps. These patterns are woven together viaentrancing, washy pastels onto pages from old books.  I finally got to visit the press-shy Maddock in his studio when he recently put up his newshow "SEENOEVILSEENOEVILSEEEVIL" at the same gallery. Actually speaking with Maddock about his work, however, was a different story.  

The tiny, lofted studio, which felt more like a nest, had oldbriefcases lining the walls which hold all of the vintage paper Maddockcollects as canvases. About 200 markers were dumped onto a pile on thefloor. The walls were lined with his drawings, most of them in process-- Maddock says he creates and puts finishing touches on largerpaintings at a different studio. He declined tell me where it'slocated. He also declined having any visual or artistic influences, andwhen I asked him about his process he told me that he doesn't start hispieceswith a narrative in mind.

So, yes, Maddock is a man of few words. In fact, he toldme just a couple minutes before I arrived at his studio tointerview him, that he had contemplated fleeing and having a friend show mearound the space instead. His awkwardness, however, made sense afterhe told me he has spent stretches of time living on aremote island off the coast of Oregon.  For him, the process ofcreating is his "poor man's vacation," in which his one self getsto watch the other self as it composes the art. (A sort schizophrenicvoyeurism, if you will.)

Take your own poor man's vacation to Bushwick this weekend, where Maddock's work will be on display at Factory Fresh until Sunday alongside pieces be Daniel Trocchio and Amanda Wong.

Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Ave., Bushwick, Brooklyn. Open Wed-Sun, 1 p.m. -7 p.m.