Maddie Hinrichs, MFA’22 candidate
The original photo reference that Maddie took in a friend’s home.
Once the embroidery was finished, the remaining canvas was primed before Maddie began painting the frame and surrounding wallpaper.
The beginning of the embroidery process.
Maddie works with oil painting and embroidery mediums that describe her memories of familiar interiors. The spaces she works with begin in reality and devolve into dreamscapes that reject logic and favor surrealism.
Maddie Hinrichs, MFA’22 candidateThe study that was made from the photo reference which highlighted Maddie’s reflection in the glass of the picture and showed how abstracted the image would become when made of embroidered threads.
The original photo reference that Maddie took in a friend’s home.
The study that was made from the photo reference which highlighted Maddie’s reflection in the glass of the picture and showed how abstracted the image would become when made of embroidered threads.
The beginning of the embroidery process.
Once the embroidery was finished, the remaining canvas was primed before Maddie began painting the frame and surrounding wallpaper.
The painting was named What I See, What I Show which details how much the reference image changes throughout the process of making the final piece. Maddie’s reflection remains in the composition but is merely a lingering presence within the abstracted embroidered work.
The original photo reference that Maddie took in a friend’s home.
The study that was made from the photo reference which highlighted Maddie’s reflection in the glass of the picture and showed how abstracted the image would become when made of embroidered threads.
The painting was named What I See, What I Show which details how much the reference image changes throughout the process of making the final piece. Maddie’s reflection remains in the composition but is merely a lingering presence within the abstracted embroidered work.
The beginning of the embroidery process.
Once the embroidery was finished, the remaining canvas was primed before Maddie began painting the frame and surrounding wallpaper.
The original photo reference that Maddie took in a friend’s home.
Maddie works with oil painting and embroidery mediums that describe her memories of familiar interiors. The spaces she works with begin in reality and devolve into dreamscapes that reject logic and favor surrealism.
The study that was made from the photo reference which highlighted Maddie’s reflection in the glass of the picture and showed how abstracted the image would become when made of embroidered threads.