This series of drawings entitled thoughts, marks a new direction for Madeline Silber’s work which previously focused primarily on painting. She started this series during the pandemic as a way to more quickly and unconsciously create imagery. She is enjoying the fluidity and directness of drawing with pen to develop forms, spaces and movement in these pieces. These could be viewed as magnifications of the way things work, and/or conceptual still lives of body parts in motion generating their own life force energy. Each drawing becomes its own thought, as well as being part of the larger constellation of images.
In Madeline Silber’s work she attempts to depict the complex subtleties of connection and separation in our contemporary relationships. The drawings and paintings merge elements of illusionistic realism with components of abstraction, raising questions about the dreamlike realm these images inhabit. These small intimate works exist somewhere in between biomorphic abstraction, surrealism and narrative representation, maintaining their existence on the edge of contemporary discourse.
Drawings are 6” x 6” unframed, 16” x 16” framed.
Drawing Thoughts Catalog Essay by Mary Murray, Curator, Munson Museum of Art
Paintings are oil on linen and range in size from 10” x 10” to 20” x 16”. Whisper is in the Collection of Munson Museum of Art