Madeline Gallucci.

Madeline Gallucci is an artist, educator and organizer living in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and her MFA at the University of Chicago in 2020. Madeline is a recipient of the 2016 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award and has held residencies at LATITUDE, ACRE, Minnesota Street Project, Grin City Collective and Kansas City’s historic Hotel Phillips. She has exhibited at Produce Model, LVL3 and UGLY (Chicago, IL); Super Dutchess Gallery (New York, NY); Rebekah Templeton (Philadelphia, PA); Skylab (Columbus, OH); Terrault Contemporary (Baltimore, MD); Pelican Bomb Gallery X (New Orleans, LA); the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Plug Projects, and 21c Museum Hotel (Kansas City, MO). Collections include the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS. From 2014-2018, Madeline was Co-Director of Front/Space, an artist-run project space located in Kansas City, MO. Her new project, RADAR, looks to further explore her interests of artist-as-curator and the intersections of these roles in midwestern communities.

Statement about the works from curator and WFA gallery director Madeline Brice:

This selection and exhibition of works is an ode to Madeline’s time spent in Kansas City. Made mostly in 2018, these works explore the history of camouflage and disrupt the patterns intended use. Influenced by the camofleurs, a group of impressionist painters hired to create and test the first batches of camouflage, Madeline sought to reinvent the pattern herself. Her work is not only experiential and explorative, but it’s colorful and joyous, raising the energy of any room it’s placed within.