March 19 – April 16, 2022
Steve Turner is pleased to present Nine Lives, a solo exhibition by New York-based Madeleine Bialke which features nine new paintings inspired by the trees of Five Ponds Wilderness Area, an old growth forest in the Adirondack Mountains. Bialke associates each of the paintings with a planet in our solar system. The connection is loose, sometimes factual, sometimes symbolic, but in each instance it inspired a painterly decision relating to color or composition. She thinks of trees as actors on a stage and has placed them in settings that are meant to provide an emotional backdrop rather than a realistic background. To her, trees can become as expansive and extra-terrestrial as celestial bodies, bridging a gap between our earthly ground and something otherworldly. Bialke’s skies are dreamy and romantic from the haze of industry and the effects of climate change and her title suggests that time is running out for our planet.
Madeleine Bialke (b. 1991, Elmira, New York) received her MFA from Boston University (2016) and her BFA from Plattsburgh State University of New York ( 2013). She has had solo exhibitions at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London (2021); Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2021) Deanna Evans Projects, New York (2019) and Harper’s Books, East Hampton (2019). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen, New York (2022); Dinner Gallery, New York (2022) and Newchild Gallery, Antwerp (2021). Nine Lives is her first solo exhibition with Steve Turner.
Born 1991, Elmira, New York
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Education
2016
MFA, Boston University, Massachusetts
2013
BFA, Plattsburgh State University of New York
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022
Nine Lives, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Long Summer, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
2021
Significant Other, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
2020
Mothers & Daughters, Visions West Contemporary, Denver
COVID Care Package Project, Deanna Evans Projects, New York
Ghosts of the Northeast, Davis Originals, Taos, Arizona
2019
Murder in the Adirondacks, Deanna Evans Projects, New York
Vital Signs, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, New York
Atopia: Madeleine Bialke and Alex Cassetti, Greene House, Brooklyn
Nature’s Borrowed Voice: Madeleine Bialke and Leanne Maxey, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York
Fantasyland, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva
2017
Recent Works, Art at Threes, Brooklyn
2015
Idea of North, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston
Group Exhibitions
2022
The Natural World: Part II, Alexander Berggruen, New York Fertile Plains, Dinner Gallery, New York
2021
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Huxley-Parlour)
Wide Blue Yonder, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp
2020
In the Weeds, Olympia, New York
Mountain Time, Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, Montana
Earth Day, Art for Change
Works on Paper, Deanna Evans Projects
2019
Plastic Garden, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York
Velvet Ropes, SHRINE, Sargent’s Daughters, New York
A Walk in the Forest, Sara Nightingale Gallery, New York
2018
A Few Conversations Between Women, 808 Gallery, Boston
2017
Space, Morris Adjmi Architects, New York
Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York
2016
Landscape: Inside and Outside, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland
Constructing Nature, Nolia’s Gallery, London
It’s hip to be square, Egremont19, Boston
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston
2015
Alumni Exhibition, Beard Gallery, Cortland, New York
Four in Hand, Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg, New York Sloane Art Exhibition, Sloane House, Boston
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston
Awards and Residencies
2018
Visiting Artist, Alumni-in-the-Classroom Grant, Plattsburgh, New York
Residency, North Western Oklahoma State University, Alva
2017
Julio Valdez Project Space Printmaking Residency, New York
2016
John Walker MFA Painting and Sculpture Award, Boston University
Fulbright Semi-Finalist, University of Tromsø, Norway
Boston University June Resident, Camden
Winter Printmaking Residency, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
2015
Summer Drawing Marathon Scholarship, New York
Studio School School of Visual Arts Scholarship, Boston University
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Scholarship, Boston University
2014
Constantin Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University
2013
Presidential Purchase, SUNY Plattsburgh, New York
2012
Nina Winkel Internship Award, SUNY Plattsburgh, New York
Nina Winkel Visual Arts Scholarship, SUNY Plattsburgh, New York
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2022
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