Madge Evers
Haydenville, MA
Inspired by the regenerative cycles of growth and decomposition, I create abstract works on paper in collaboration with plants and fungi.
MessageMadge Evers uses foraged plants and fungi to explore cross-species collaboration. Her work has been exhibited at the Danforth Art Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, throughout the east coast, and acquired by private and institutional collectors. Madge was a Critical Mass finalist in 2019 and a 2021 Mass Cultural Council photography finalist. Images from The New Herbarium series were published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Artist residencies in Ireland, at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Kinney Renaissance Center at UMass, on Cape Cod, and in Maine have allowed Madge to interact with landscapes and their histories. After teaching for 25 years in Rhode Island and Massachusetts public schools, she now works as a full-time artist in western Massachusetts.
Statement
I’m interested transformation. My work literally depicts plants, fungi, and birds, but more figuratively reflects our entangled dependence with the changing environment. With various media, including the cyanotype process, paint, and an adaptation of the mushroom spore print, I create biomorphic works on paper. Spore print monoprints and cyanotypes are produced with, and influenced by, sun, wind, and water. I’m interested in organic material as subject, as process, and as medium – a compostable one. In whatever form the work takes, my goal is to portray the strangeness and familiarity of the natural world through the cyclical mysteries of growth, decay, and regeneration.
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