Born in the Utah desert, Madeline Rupard grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and Augusta, Georgia. In 2016 she received her BFA in Studio Art from Brigham Young University and in 2019 she received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where she currently resides. Rupard’s paintings consider the American landscape as one who has moved through it frequently and traveled across long distances. A sense of wonder and lonely, transient observation is instilled in her pictures--you are not here to stay, but always passing through. She paints to describe contradictions: the suburban and the sublime, the sacred and the mundane, and the ancient and man-made running up against each other. Her work is also concerned with memory and time—another ongoing project is @luxurydeptstore, an instagram account archiving the sights and sounds of shopping malls from the 80s and 90s. Art, to her, is a reconciliation between the romantic and the realist.

Selected Press:
Booooooom! - “Modern Land”
Booooooom! - “McDonald’s Psalms”
15Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine
New American Paintings

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