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MADELEINE FITZPATRICK (b.1958, San Francisco, CA) is an Irish-American artist whose paintings and monoprints teeter on the edge between figuration and abstraction to reapproach the human body from a radical perspective, one that is cosmic and fluid in nature. What appears to be a heightened sense of nudity and erotic energy is only the tip of the iceberg, as there is a larger portion hidden beneath the fragmented depiction of bodies in her works.
Developing her style in the early 1980s, the artist can be perceived as a rebel of her time, due to the dominantly male point of view toward nude female figures and the double standard between male and female nudity in art history. Recurring themes echo the artist’s early life in the Irish countryside, a feminist approach as personal is political. Turning into human or animal figures at times, her silhouettes of wishbones problematize the fragile line between the states of hope, ecstasy, despair, and possibility.
Her work narrates the story of a transdisciplinary practice that is beyond genres to seize multiplicity and slipperiness as a survival methodology.
Madeleine Fitzpatrick lives and works in Marshall, California. Major recent museum solo shows include Recent Work, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA.
EVAN SHIVELY was born in Berkeley, CA, and grew up primarily in Boston. He attended Harvard College, and upon graduation moved to the West Coast to pursue his first stint at the confluence of nature and culture, working as a chef in San Francisco for much of his 20s.
In 1993, seeking a new artistic challenge, he started to teach himself fine furniture-making. This began a consuming and abiding love of trees and wood, as well as a career in art and site-specific design. 25 year ago he founded Arborica, a specialty sawmill that utilizes the salvaged log resource of Northern California. Evan has salvaged thousands of trees otherwise destined for landfills, chipping, or fuel for co-generation plants. The salvaged lumber from Arborica has been used extensively in residences, restaurants, museums, offices, and outdoor spaces and has become an important resource for the woodworking community, locally and internationally.