Madeline Peckenpaugh

Madeline Peckenpaugh's paintings are depictions of metaphorical, pictorial, and abstracted landscapes. Inspired by her everyday experiences, memory, and her photographs, they engage with our understanding of space and how our surroundings affect us. Peckenpaugh's paintings are devoid of human depiction, but the sense that they once occupied the space is evident from the manipulation of manicured forms amongst the "wild", or abstract.

Peckenpaugh is interested in the border between the nature of real things and the nature of imagined things, allowing them to merge into another. Our trained perception of the landscape can become questioned, as monumental structures begin to vaporize, and natural forms become paper thin. There is a reconciliation of opposites: deep space of the real world with the flat space of the canvas. As Paul Nougé wrote, "Nothing makes the reality of space so uncertain as the painting of reality. You realize how complicated the space is once you start painting it.”

2020 MFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2015 BFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022
Madeline Peckenpaugh, Unit London, London, UK (solo)
The Natural World: Pt. II, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY
Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, Madeline Peckenpaugh, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2021
Material Remains, Young Space Views
I have an idea!, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Neither Night Nor Day, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Thesis Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Oh to Be a Painting: Curated by Katelyn Ledford, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
20/20: RISD MFA Exhibition, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2019
The Art of Collecting, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
Land//Fill//Land, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Painting Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
I Don’t Feel at Home.., Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
150 Years of Alumni from PAFA, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
___Scapes, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2018
Graduate Painting Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2017
Inhabit, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Out There, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016
A New Gesture, The Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, WI
Five To Watch, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
Look Both Ways: Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, P...