DECLARE: Madeleine Finley
What does it mean to be contemporary? We asked all eleven of the artists in the show to give us their thoughts, collected in our DECLARE blog series.
Strongly characterized by gesture and material, Finley's work references the unavoidable and unexpected development of change and eruption in our life cycles. Through natural agriculture and architectural motifs, she depicts her own system of mapping these cycles. She is inspired by aerial maps of landscape and the visuals of geographical transformations. When asked what contemporary meant to her, she responded:
"Contemporary means current, and in someway working against the grain of the norm. Progressing the current ideal."
