Madeline Denaro: Taming the Unruly

For Madeline Denaro painting is living in a dual world and even between these worlds.  It is a dance of two fields, both needed, neither taking precedence. The messy, chaotic life-part that is full of mishaps and accidents, tamed by a calmer more structured state that responds to what is needed on the surface.  The work isn’t created as much as it is allowed to evolve. 

Most often forms enter, even uninvited, and are obscured or merely veiled as passing thoughts or emotions stay as underlying attitudes but awareness guards them from ruling. Her work seems open, usually incorporating large fields of layered space with forms that gather almost needing each other as a composition unfolds. It is in this unfolding, open and receptive space that a new work is allowed to be born.