_____________________________________
********************************************************


Madeline Stillwell
(USA), lives and works in Berlin.


_____________________________________
********************************************************


"Madeline Stillwell explores both literal and metaphoric limitations wrought by excessive and abrasive materiality. The artist's negotiation of hidden and perilous conduits along jagged planes of urban waste attests to ephemeral states within the urban sphere, while alluding to broader issues of endurance, persistence, and survival within our collective consciousness. The contemporary mythologies that manifest in Stillwell's work, as she places herself within the urban landscape's broken artifacts, testify to the unexpected hardships and crises that punctuate our lives and can serve to threaten our very existence, and of beauty that lingers in even the most primitive or potentially harmful of places."



-Emilie Trice, 2010