Vista Art Night with Sean Madden

Name: Vista Art Night with Sean Madden
Start: 2025-11-21T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 1051 Greene St, Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29201

Schedule

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1051 Greene St, Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29201 | Columbia, SC

As a member of the Vista Guild Association, the Koger Center for the Arts is proud to partner with the Jasper Project in Third Thursday Art Night. We feature a different artist every month with an opening reception on the Third Thursday of the month — but THIS month we’re hosting our opening reception on Friday, November 21st. Our featured artist of November is Sean Madden.
Artist Bio:
Sean Madden is a multimedia artist who captures landscapes and portraits of Columbia in such a way that makes the images both familiar and fresh at the same time.
Both Madden’s parents were artists, so creating was never foreign to him. His mother was an accomplished oil painter, and his father was a master carpenter, scratch painter, and sculptor. Though art came naturally, it was music that first captured Madden’s interest.
“The influence of my parents came full circle in the early 2000s when I began working for a piano and antique restoration company,” Madden says. “And my knowledge of wood carving and ability to work an artist’s brush proved invaluable.”
However, it was after the loss of his mother in 2019 that Madden was moved to “return to [his] roots” and begin painting once more. This time, it stuck, and he now finds it hard to pull himself from whatever surface he’s sketching on during any free time.
Madden’s inspirations come from all around him, from the world he traverses each day. Though he began capturing these scenes with oil, he embraces all mediums, including gouache, acrylic, watercolor, graphite, and ink.