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Email: mmwories@yahoo.com

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Biography/Statement: 

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 as an architect 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 and wood panels.

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

Some abstracts, particularly those on paper, may also display a structural quality as a result of her architectural background.

With a love for the ocean and of desolate wide open vistas, she also creates landscapes and seascapes which are most often inspired by her coastal location, by the remote desert locations of the American southwest, and by memories of Australia. In these semi-abstract interpretive paintings she endeavors to capture the essence and spirit of the scene, whether it be through light, through movement of water and wind, or through the rawness and tones of the earth. 

Her work can be found in several corporate and institutional collections, as well as in private collections.

She has exhibited in the US, and internationally (Italy, Spain, Hungary, Macedonia, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Germany)

 

-CV: 

Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1950

Education 

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

 

Recent Exhibitions

2018:

- Osten Biennial of Drawing 2018 (Finalist), Exhibition of Finalists and Award winners, Skopje, Macedonia

-  Room & Board small format group show, Culver City, CA, USA

- Pinturas Escritas, Poesia Pintadas, in Prado-Goyart Gallery in Madrid, Spain

- Mostra d’Arte, Medusa Eventi, Artisti da 36 Nazioni, Piazza del Popolo, Offida, Italy

- Neutral-ism Small Format Exhibition, Neutral-ism Museum, Nereto, Italy

- Spectrum Gestalt 5, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA  

- Mix it Up, Beyond the Lines Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

- Contemporary Artist’s Posters, K11 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

 

2017:

- The Gift of Art Exhibition, FM Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

- NEUTRAL-ISM, Palazzina Azzurra Municipal Art Gallery di San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy 

- The Neutra Contemporary 2017, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

-  NEUTRAL-ISM Collection, Neutral-ism Museum, Nereto, Italy.

-  El Gesto Travers de Mundo, Galeria CC Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain. Representing USA.

- Wild Animal Exhibit, Beyond the Lines Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA

- Pre Existing Condition, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los AngelesCA, USA 

- Miniature Art Show, Beyond the Lines Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA

- Human Rights?#H2O, AIAPI (Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche Italia), Trento, Italy.

- EXPO NEUTRAL-ISM, Salas de Exposiciones del Ayuntamiento De Macarena, Granada, Spain              

- FIARTE Y NEUTRAL-ISM, EN COLABORACION, Granada, Spain.      

- Abstract Exhibit 2, Beyond the Lines Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA

- Immigrant Show, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

- Water and Sky, Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA

- Mod Squad, Art Share Los Angeles, curated group show, Los Angeles, CA, USA

- New Year New Art, Neutra Museum and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2016:

- Neutral-ism International Art Movement, Mediolanum Museum, Padova, Italy.

- Mostra Internazionale di Pittura, Matera, Italy.

- Osten Biennial of Drawing 2016, Exhibition of Selected Artists, Skopje, Macedonia

- SALI National Abstract Art Exhibition XII, Garfield Park AC, , Indianapolis, IN, USA

- Spectrum Gestalt 3, Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA   

- Human Rights?#Diversity, AIAPI, Trento, Italy.

- Osten Biennial of Drawing, Works of Paper, Skopje, Macedonia.

- Room & Board small format group show, Culver City, CA, USA

 

2015:

- Neutral-ism International Art Movement” Museum of Aurum, Pescara, Italy

- Mostra Internazionale di Pittura, Matera, Italy
- Abstract Expressions, Patrajdas Contemporary, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

- Spectrum Gestalt 2, Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, USA

- Room & Board small format group show, Culver City, CA, USA

- Driven to Abstraction, Patrajdas Contemporary, Whitespace Gallery, Ogden, Utah, USA