Brice was a selected recipient of an Inspiration Grant from ArtsKC and the Lighton International Exchange Program which funded her attendance to Quarantine artist in residence in Menorca, Spain in April of 2023. She was also a finalist for the 2023 Visual Artist Award with Charlotte Street Foundation. In 2021, she was featured in Sotheby's Institutes' Made in Bed magazine as an emerging artist to know. And in 2020, she was a recipient of a Charlotte Street Foundation Rocket Grant. Her work continues to be added to many permanent and private collections.
Madeline Brice
Crying Makes You Feel Better
Oil on metallized mylar
"I am a multidisciplinary queer visual artist who focuses on the self interacting with those around her. My work attempts to visually represent the fluidity of experiences and relationships through the lens of a visual perception disorder. I address and rebel the conservative male influence on female objectivity and refract the male gaze as I attempt to return to the self. I primarily work with oils on metallized mylar and mdf board, while also incorporating sculpture, photography, and digital manipulation, creating an experiential and experimental interaction with my work.
I began using metallized mylar as a primary medium after I was diagnosed with DPDR, or Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder, in 2019 following sexual and reproductive trauma. This disorder causes the world to seem dreamlike and delusive, familiar places become unfamiliar, familiar people become unrecognizable. Mylar reflects and distorts its environment, much in the same way my brain does. My work is primarily figurative, representations of those around me, but I never force the work to stay within such parameters."
– Madeleine Brice
About the artist
Madeline Brice
Brice was a selected recipient of an Inspiration Grant from ArtsKC and the Lighton International Exchange Program which funded her attendance to Quarantine artist in residence in Menorca, Spain in April of 2023. She was also a finalist for the 2023 Visual Artist Award with Charlotte Street Foundation. In 2021, she was featured in Sotheby's Institutes' Made in Bed magazine as an emerging artist to know. And in 2020, she was a recipient of a Charlotte Street Foundation Rocket Grant. Her work continues to be added to many permanent and private collections.