Madeleine Mayo: Hot Mess
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Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary 2009 10 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T3C 0K4
Madeline Mayo, “Hot Mess,” 2018
TRUCK Contemporary Art +15 Window Space at Arts Commons, Calgary, 205 8 Ave SE
In Hot Mess, Fluorescent pink light radiates with deceptive openness while an unstoppable leak threatens to affirm the unruly desire for more. The impossible bulk of Imagination lumbers back to the sweeping, and to cleaning up after foolish mistakes made in the name of love. All the while, big red buckets collect the good intentions fueled by a certain uncertainty that impossible things do happen.
Madeleine Mayo (b. 1981, London, Ontario, Canada) holds a BFA in Painting from OCADU (The Ontario College of Art and Design University) and is currently an MFA candidate at Concordia University. Mayo’s practice is situated at the interstices of painting and sculpture which employs figurative and abstract tropes as a vehicle to engage with the formal and effective experience of colour, mimetic representation, and of her own subjective relationship to these objects as manifestations of love and desire.
Mayo currently lives and works in Montreal. She was the recipient of Tom Hopkins Graduate Award in Painting & Drawing and the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship Graduate Awards. She has also taught both academic and studio courses at Concordia University.
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