BIO//CV
Madi Stephens is an artist based in Seattle, Washington. Her art practice is interdisciplinary, using installation, sculpture, writing, and design to explore the relationship between impermanence and identity, examining how we form and transform ourselves through the cycles of creation and destruction. Their work is informed by their BA in Studio Art, Art History + Visual Studies. They have exhibited in multiple galleries across Seattle and is currently an MFA candidate at Seattle University in Arts Leadership.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice centers making paper. I make paper from previously discarded paper (pulp). Other times, I forage for torn and fallen posters off the streets outside the clubs and bars (ephemera). These scraps often scream at those walking by. They speak in techno DJ sets, hyperpop, and chronic online culture. They offer moments of togetherness.
I create work that resembles my city and its inhabitants: our persistent search for connection, and the building of home in spaces never meant to hold us. I’m curious on how we gather and what remains after we part. I question how intimacy is built from impermanence.
This is an act of taking care.
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