Madeline Jane Lounsberry is an artist currently based in Chicago. She completed her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was born in Waterloo, IA and grew up in Eagle Valley, Colorado. Her artistic practice is primarily based in painting but also spans drawing, video, sculpture, performance, and garments. Throughout media she investigates utopia and the subsequent collapse of utopia. Each work is a window into the figures’ journey towards spiritual climax, epiphany and realization. A series of realizations in myriads of spaces and landscapes; some idyllic, garden’s of eden, some have fallen or are falling from grace. The constant presence and search for boundary and the makings up and breaking down of moral codes. Comparison of synthetic fiction to the chaos of reality.

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Group Exhibitions:
2020 'Art in Place' CNL Projects, Terrain Exhibitons, Chicago, IL
2020 'Still Relevant' Happy Gallery Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 'Interweb Intimacies' ExTV, Web Program
2018 'Rags to Witches' Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forrest, IL
2018 'Chicago Youth Exhibition' FDC Studios, Chicago, IL
2017 'BFA Thesis Exhibition' Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016 'Rational Distance' Site Red, Chicago, IL
2015 'EMPTY SPACES' Young Camelot, Chicago, IL
2015 'Art Bash' School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 'SAIC's First Silent Disco' MaClean Ballroom, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 'everywhere descending' Chicago, IL
2015 'everywhere descending pt. II' Chicago, IL
2013 'MICA In Toscana' Castel del Piano, Tuscany, Italy
Solo Exhibitions:
2015 'Going Back' Fort Collins, CO
On Display:
2015-2017 'The History of Us... But We Were Both God, Only One of Us Cried' School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Publications:
'The Life' April 2015 Issue "Young Achiever"
'First' 2015, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Awards:
Advanced Painting Program SAIC 2017
SAIC Honors Merit Scholarship 2014-2017