On view in the South Gallery throughout August
Artist Statement
Mother Material consists of multi-media art objects and images that explore the poetic intersubjectivity of the mother-child relationship while pushing against notions of essentialist motherhood and embracing nostalgia as a feminist tool for meaning-making.
To create this work I use cell phone photographs of my life and a myriad of alteration processes including sewing, painting, and printmaking and the incorporation of found objects. The resulting image objects suggest comfort, protection, and domestic space in contemporary culture while reaching for reconciliation between the lived and constructed experiences of motherhood.
Artist Bio
Madeleine Marie LeMieux is an artist and arts administrator in Columbia, MO. She received her BFA with an emphasis in Art History, Theory and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and her MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University in 2011. She has been exhibiting her artwork and using art as a tool for community organizing nationally since 2004.
Highlights of her career include: serving on NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Non-Performing Arts Selection Panel of experts in 2012 and 2013, developing Groundswell’s Youth Media Council, a program which teaches teens communication tools and empowers them to create youth driven marketing content, and helping to establish Brooklyn’s first art-jewelry maker space, Brooklyn Metal Works. In 2014, LeMieux founded Resident Arts, a professional development organization for artists in Mid-Missouri. In 2016, LeMieux was honored as one of the Columbia Business Times’ 20 Under 40 successful business people. She is currently attending the University of Missouri to receive her MFA.
