Exhibitions — Madeline Bohrer

Horizon Line — installation view, Ruby/Dakota

012024

Horizon Line

Ruby/Dakota is pleased to present the exhibition Horizon Line, curated by Mad Eye Gallery. Featuring works by artists Madeline Bohrer, Drea Cofield, Erica Newton, and Gaby Collins-Fernandez, this exhibition invites viewers to look forward, capturing the longing of the horizon in both its simplicity and abstraction. Drawing inspiration from plein air painting, art history, and personal experience, the artists use a variety of techniques — from plaster to digital printing on velvet paper — as symbols of infinite possibility. The horizon line serves as a powerful image in our culture, always present but forever unreachable. It creates a tension of longing, much like when two colors meet in a painting and the entire world seems to pause. Ultimately, Horizon Line serves as a hopeful reminder that art, like the horizon, continues to evolve, pushing boundaries and inspiring change, always moving toward greater possibility.

Venue: Ruby/Dakota — 155 E 2nd St, New York
Dates: January 9–18, 2024
Curated by: Mad Eye Gallery
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SPF 32 — installation view, The William Ulmer Brewery

022019

SPF 32

A summer group exhibition at The William Ulmer Brewery — Brooklyn's oldest brewery — curated by Madeleine Mermall, gathering thirty-two artists around the theme of summer. Bohrer's Sunbathing hung among the group.

Venue: The William Ulmer Brewery, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Curated by: Madeleine Mermall
Press: Bushwick Daily, Creative Boom

Blue Cows, Black Clouds — installation view, Spoonbill Studio

032018

Blue Cows, Black Clouds

Spoonbill Studio is pleased to present Blue Cows, Black Clouds, a solo exhibition of new works by Madeline Bohrer, curated by Madeleine Mermall.

Upon first glance, Bohrer's paintings seem to inhabit a bucolic, arcadian-esque place: fields neatly sprawl out and trees stretch towards the cloud specked sky, cows graze in lush pastures, a chateau welcomes the viewer. The paintings, while rooted in realism, are comprised of painterly, abstracted studies of line and color — with nods to Hockney and Matisse. However, the world Bohrer has created is a surreal, technicolor inversion of such scenes, paradisiacal in their beauty though they feel as if one has tumbled down the rabbit hole.

In the paintings, the rules of reality have fallen to the wayside. Colors gleefully play musical chairs, with the black spots of the cows and the blues and whites of the sky swapping places, grass growing in an array of pinks, reds and greens, leaving inky black clouds to rest in blank white skies while blue cows stand about in polychromatic pastures.

The depictions of the women in these paintings are drawn from antique embroidery, where women are reduced to mere symbols of a supposed ideal, stitched into their proper places and playing out their assigned roles. Though it may seem as if the works represent an antiquated, idealized place where women fulfill traditional roles, Bohrer reclaims the landscape through formal elements — taking authorship over what she can, and leaving us to ponder this world and its mirroring of our own.

Venue: Spoonbill Studio, Brooklyn
Curated by: Madeleine Mermall
Press: ALL ARTS

042019

Boston Friends

Adelson Galleries Boston's closing exhibition — a thank-you to the city — bringing together four Boston University College of Fine Arts classmates: Madeline Bohrer, Fiona Hilton, Mia Cross, and Lena McCarthy.

Venue: Adelson Galleries Boston — 520 Harrison Ave, Boston
Dates: June 7 – July 7, 2019
Press: BU Today