Taking from my immediate surroundings, I create representations of the land spaces I inhabit. I explore the space where humans and nature interact, where built and natural environments collide to create a negotiated interspace of the urban environment. Through painting, photography, textiles, and drawing, I represent the land and my exploration of it. I am motivated by my own human-nature and the impulse to represent, recreate, capture, and cultivate natural things. My work delves into the tactility of land and reveals a yearning for an engagement with the physical. Through multiple mediums, processes, framing and reframing, I move closer to identifying a contemporary ideology of landscape representations while defining my personal relationship to the landscapes I encounter.

BIO

Madeline Marak is from Shreveport, Louisiana. She received her Masters of Fine Art from the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis and her Bachelors of Fine Art from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has exhibited at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Meadows Museum of Art in Shreveport, Louisiana, Des Lee Gallery in St. Louis, UNO Gallery in New Orleans, Carol Gallery in New Orleans, and more. She has been an artist in residence at Mildred Lane in Beach Lake, PA, Forest Park Forever Artist Residence in St. Louis, MO, Casa Na Ilha Art Residence in Ilhabela, Brazil, Burren College of Art Residency + Programme in Co. Claire, Ireland, and Shreveport Regional Arts Council Summer Artist Residency. Aside from her art practice, Marak has been dedicated to serving her community by teaching for the Noel Methodist Community Art Program, Bossier Parish Community College, serving as Executive Director of the Marshall Regional Arts Council, and Executive Director of the North Louisiana Arts Council. She has recently moved to Kansas City to join the vibrant arts community and continue as a practicing artist.