"A Walk in the Flatlands" Exhibition by Jamie
Madison runs Jan 12 to Feb 26, 202
Join us at the John Natsoulas
Gallery for Jamie Madison's
landscape exhibition: "A Walk
in the Flatlands".
She received a Bachelor of
Arts in painting and
printmaking at UC Davis,
studying with Wayne
Thiebaud and Roland
Peterson.
She returned full time to
painting in 2017 and has
recently studied with Fran
O'Niell, and Enrique
Martinez Celaya.
Madison's focus is primarily
on making, particularly on
process and choice of
materials.
She often works on paper,
sometimes collaging
handmade monoprints onto
acrylic paintings.
The paint slides on easily, dries quickly,
and, as she says, "Welcomes the next
layer with open arms." In creating work
for this exhibition, Madison gravitated
toward larger, sturdier formats, first
wood panels, and then stretched linen.
As she worked on the panels,
hot pinks and bright reds began
to emerge over the slick
surfaces, a reflection of the
orange sky of the distant
wildfires.
When she switched to oils on
stretched linen, a softer, more
forgiving surface, she
encountered an unexpected
shift: a cooler, soothing palette
materialized.
Madison's striking paintings from
the last eighteen months do not
merely chronicle changes in the
landscape but crystallize her
reverence for the humming web of
life that she has discovered in the
flatlands.
She is a witness to the
landscape's inexorable
fragility in the face of
industrial man's epic battle
against nature.
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