A selection of paintings by Chicago-based artist and arts administrator Madeline Gallucci. Gallucci received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2020. Her work examines reflective and transitory sites such as mirrors, windows, and incidental marks found in the urban landscape. Drawn to things like mismatched paint covering vandalism, scratches etched into windows, or graffiti tags repeated throughout a neighbourhood, Gallucci questions what it means to render something provisional into something permanent:
“Through painting, I construct fields that hold traces of what passes across them and what momentarily remains: dust, weather, residue, and fragments of language that feel both urgent and nonsensical. Pulling from trompe-l’œil and colour field painting histories, I move between realism and abstraction to consider how meaning is constructed from the mundane.”
