My paintings mimic interconnected patterns, light, atmosphere, and pressure found in natural and urban environments. I explore these formal elements through my photography practice, which I see as a cataloging of events or situations that I can draw upon. The matter of factness of my photographs and their peculiarity in relation to their subject sets up an obstacle for me to work through in my paintings.Through the process of painting, I transform these cropped realities into their own particular environments. I am interested in collapsing space as well as opening up deep dimensional sections; disrupting with gesture and weaving in material changes to dodge initial expectations. 

Bio

Madeline Peckenpaugh (b.1991, Milwaukee, WI) lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. She has exhibited with Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solos); Avery Galleries, Philadelphia, PA; Scope New York, NY; Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, R.I; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, R.I; and Gelman Gallery, Providence, R.I. She received the Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship, The Philadelphia Mayor's Award, and the KCAC Nepal Museum Artist Residency, granted by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Peckenpaugh began her arts education at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, earned her BFA and Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2015, and received her MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, Brown University, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been placed in private collections internationally, including Dubai, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia.

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