Madara Mason

I'm a painter living and working in the Arctic. My work is usually built from layers and layers of images and paint, using a variety of tools and archival media. This method of constructing the final artwork feels authentic to me since it mimics how we build our identities over time, from erasures and mistakes, to contemplations and actions, to reversals and formation.

My subject matter is often pulled from the natural world where I live, just near the arctic circle in Alaska: animals, mountains, symbols representing various kinds of weather, and the plant life found in the summers under the Midnight Sun. I live here for reasons of family, and my relationship to the environment is one I'm always trying to reconcile through my art.

Master of Arts in Literature, University of Alaska Fairbanks

New Work, Alaskan Artist Series, Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK 2018
In Search of Lost Time, Well Street Art Co., Fairbanks, AK, 2017
Four and Twenty Black Bears, Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, Jul. 2016
Inherent Patterns, Ursa Major, Fairbanks, AK, Feb. 2016
Studio Works, Morris Thompson Visitor & Cultural Center, Fairbanks, AK, Oct. 2015
New Work: Paintings, Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, 2014
Mythologies, Sevigny Art Gallery, Anchorage, AK, 2011
New Work, Well Street Art Co., Fairbanks, AK, 2010
Yupik Masks in Translation: New Work, New Horizons, Fairbanks, AK, 2008
Hoof and Horn: Works in Oil and Mixed Media, Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, 2005
64th Parallel, Juried Exhibition, Bear Gallery, AK Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, AK, 2018
64th Parallel, Juried Exhibition, Bear Gallery, AK Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, AK, 2017
Mad Girls, The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, 2015
Limited Edition, Bear Gallery, AK Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, AK, 2014
Monsters & Legends, University of Alaska Fairbanks eLearning, Fairbanks, AK, 2014
64th Parallel, Juried Exhibition, Bear Gallery, AK Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, A...