Bio

Madeleine is an artist and teacher born in Ojai, CA, currently living and working in Honolulu, HI. She works as a visual arts teacher at Wai’anae High School, and paints out of her garage, where she maintains a rich studio practice. She has been drawing and painting for her entire life, and she studied art at Dartmouth College, graduating with honors in 2019.

Madiʻs artistic practice explores memory as a fluid, ever-shifting relationship between individual and collective experience. Through a balance of abstraction and representation, her paintings resist immediate interpretation, inviting viewers into a slow, reflective act of seeing. Her compositions evolve through a segmented approach, where discrete marks disrupt coherence, mirroring the instability of memory itself—how it fades, accumulates, and resurfaces in altered forms. By constructing images that oscillate between clarity and obscurity, she prompts viewers to consider how their own memories and associations shape their understanding of what they see. In doing so, her work raises broader questions about the nature of connection—how images can serve as bridges between inner worlds, fostering understanding across difference, or, despite our best efforts, remain partially veiled, revealing only fragments of what lies beneath.