Born within the Utah desert, artist Madeline Rupard spent her youth in Silver Spring, Maryland and Augusta, Georgia. She acquired her BFA in Studio Artwork from Brigham Younger College and an MFA in Portray from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York the place she presently resides. Rupard’s work contemplate the American panorama as one who has moved by way of it ceaselessly. A way of surprise and transient commentary is instilled in her footage. Her work discover the tensions between the suburban and the chic, the sacred and the mundane. For Rupard, artwork is a reconciliation between the romantic and the realist. “Trendy Land” is Rupard’s most up-to-date physique of “non-comic” work:
“On the finish of 2021, I packed all my possessions into my 2002 Subaru Forester and drove throughout the US from Utah again to New York Metropolis. It was a bittersweet time: the tip of a relationship and a job I beloved, silver-lined with the sense of recent beginnings and the fun of the unknown. The swiftly shifting American freeway appeared to reflect my inner wrestlings of freedom and heartbreak. Passing by way of deserts and plains alone, I felt linked to a better collective reminiscence of the American panorama and the those that have handed by way of earlier than me. How and the place, exactly, does the private faucet into the common? Why is it that we really feel a sure pang driving by a desert gasoline station at twilight? And the way can ambiance and colour interact our feelings? Resuming life as an artist within the metropolis, I started to discover by way of portray that state of surprise I felt as a transient observer simply passing by way of. A buddy just lately really useful a movie by Hong Sang-soo referred to as “On the Seashore At Night time Alone” (2017). The phrases of the protagonist spoke to my expertise as she described her travels overseas: ‘Typically the loneliness made me tremble. However there’s pleasure in that too.’”
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