Madeleine Wories

Madeleine Wories is a printmaker and painter of Dutch heritage. She was born in the Netherlands, raised in Costa Rica and Australia, studied and worked in Montreal, Canada, and now makes her home in Southern California.

Her abstracts evolve through an ongoing dialogue with the painting, acting and reacting to the process intuitively. In the spirit of abstract expressionism, through colour, shape, line, texture, marks, gesture and movement, she strives to find a balance between control and spontaneity where intention and unpredictability converge.

The paintings start with loose ideas, which then evolve until they take on a life of their own. She is more interested in the emotional response to the painting with the aim to evoke rather than to depict. Rarely using traditional brushes, she prefers diverse tools: scrapers of varying sizes, squeegees, palette knives, rollers, and others. She works on paper, canvas, wood panels, and mixed media collages.

She often draws inspiration from the environment: landforms, geology, textures, seas, skies, wind and weather, as well as from current events.

Her work can be found in several corporate and institutional collections, as well as in private collections.
She has exhibited in the US, an...

B.Sc (Arch), B.Arch (Architecture), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Memberships and Representation
- Neutral-ism Movement, founded by Francesco Perilli, Italy
- Global Art Project (GAP) : The Collaborative Future, founded by Carl Heyward USA.
- The Neutra Museum and Gallery, founded by Dion Neutra, curated by Dulce Stein

2023:
- Distancia y Cercania (Distance and Nearness), House of Culture Puerto Madryn Eliana Laino, Chubut, Pantagonia, Argentina

2022:
- Human Rights? #NO-GAP, AIAPI (Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche Italia), Campo de Caduti, Rovereto, Italy.
- Osten Biennial of Drawing 2022, Skopje, Macedonia
- Coletivo Smave Art, Galeria Geraldes da Silva, Porto, Portugal

2021:
- Get Out of Your Skull, 10dence Platform, with exhibitions in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
- Re-Imaging the Global Village, Global Art Project, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, USA
- Artheka 32, Ostia, Rome, Italy
- That Which Surrounds You, Benicia Arts, Benicia, CA, USA.
- Human Rights? #Work, AIAPI (Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche Italia), Campo de Caduti, Rovereto, Italy.
- The Future is Now, Open Wall 2021, Virtual Exhibition, curated by Laszlo Ladany, Budapest, Hungary
- The Wall, Global Postcard Exhibition, small format works, Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK

2020:
- Gender Gap, The Women of Global Art Project, Gallerie Renee Marie, Benicia, CA, USA
- Contemporary Collaboration 2.0, Pulchri Studio, the Hague, Netherlands
- Crossing Borders, Global Art Project, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA, USA
- Interna...