Madeleine is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Chicago. Their work is often mobile/modular/interactive and can be found in backyards, libraries, gardens, storefronts, homes, galleries, artist-run spaces, and book fairs. They respond to existing environments, building structures-furniture-environments that prompt users to actively reconsider and redefine their function(s) and freely engage with their sonic landscape. Using the archive as form, they mark time by cataloging lived spaces, collected objects, familial histories, personal relationships, natural phenomena, mundane routines, and ephemeral moments.
Madeleine runs bench press, a risograph press based on friendship, play, and collaboration. bench press often partners with artists and designers who are new to the book as form, using the risograph as a tool for skill sharing and cultivating new friendships. They co-teach a risography and bookmaking course every summer at Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. Their books live in the Franklin Furnace Archive, in the Pratt Institute Library; the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the 8-Ball Library, in New York; the Book Art Collection at Virginia Commonwealth University; and elsewhere.
