About

Madara

I’m a painter, graphic designer, and illustrator working out of Fairbanks, Alaska. I’m also the Faculty Development lead for teaching at UAF, and a part time adjunct instructor for the Art and Education Departments. I devote consistent hours to my studio practice in the same way that some dedicate time to exercise or church. Very little serves as an excuse to keep me away from my art!

My work is primarily about color  and energy and usually depicts animals in an anthropomorphic light combined with iterative marks meant to suggest the natural world. I’m always interested in trying new media, learning new processes, and collaborating with other artists. Some of my accomplishments are listed below.

 

You can seem my website here.

I have an Etsy store as well as a Redbubble store where more of my work is displayed.

EXHIBITIONS & WORK

Selected Solo Exhibits

New Work: Small Works on Paper and Panel,  Alaska House Art Gallery, July 2016

Inherent Patterns,  Ursa Major, Fairbanks, AK, Feb. 2016

Studio Works, Morris Thompson Visitor & Cultural Center, Fairbanks, AK, Oct. 2015

New Work: Paintings, Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, 2014

Mythologies, Katie Sevigny Art Gallery, Anchorage, AK, 2011

New Work, Well Street Art Co., Fairbanks, AK, 2010

Yupik Masks in Translation: New Work, New Horizons, Fairbanks, AK, 2008

Hoof and Horn: Works in Oil and Mixed Media, Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, 2005

 

Selected Group Exhibits

Mad Girls: 13 Women Artists,  Group Exhibition, The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK, 2015

Limited Edition, Group Exhibition, Bear Gallery, AK Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, AK, 2014

Monsters & Legends,  Group Exhibit, University of Alaska Fairbanks eCampus, Fairbanks, AK, 2014

64th Parallel, Juried Exhibition, Bear Gallery, AK Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, AK, 2014

20th Annual Denali Center for Education Auction,  Multiple Artists, Denali Center for Education, Denali, AK, 2014

Group Show,  Warwick Glass Studio, Fairbanks, 2011

University Heights Arts Open, Group Exhibit, Swedenborg Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2007

Miniature Show, New Horizons Gallery, Group Exhibit, Fairbanks, AK, 2007

Alaska Women Artists, The Alaska House Art Gallery, Group Exhibit, Fairbanks, AK, 2006

Miniature Show, New Horizons Gallery, Group Exhibit, Fairbanks, AK, 2006

64th Parallel, Juried Exhibition, Bear Gallery, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, AK, 2005

Miniature Show, New Horizons Gallery, Group Exhibit, Fairbanks, AK, 2005

Quilt Alaska, Bear Gallery, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, AK. 2004

Gallery Artists,  The Artworks, Group Exhibit, Fairbanks, AK, 2004

Fairbanks Winter Artist Studio Tour,  Fairbanks, AK, 2004

Student Art Show, Group Show,  Honorable Mention, University of Alaska Art Department, Fairbanks, AK, 1999

 

Other

Community Arts Workshop,  Instructor, The Canvas Gallery, Juneau, AK, June 2016

Summer Youth Arts Workshop,  Instructor, The Canvas Gallery, Juneau, AK, June 2016

Midnight Mammoth, Primary Illustrator, by Maria Reeves, dist. by Epicenter Press,  May 2016

Artwork featured on the cover of The Fawn Abyss, by Adam Tavel, 2016

“Comics in the Classroom: Students as Makers,’  Emerald City Comicon,  Presenter, Seattle, WA 2015

Artwork featured on-set for The 9th Life of Louis Drax, (Antcolony Films,  Brightlight Pictures,  Miramax) to be released 2016

Artwork featured on the cover of Plash and Levitation, by Adam Tavel, 2014

Artwork featured on the cover of Third Coast Magazine, Spring 2012

Featured Artwork for Loaded Bicycle, an online journal, 2011

Two Gentlemen of Verona, Scenic Artist & Designer, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theater, 2010

Cover design for University of Alaska Fairbanks Midnight Sun Chapbook Series, 2007-2008

Cover design for University of Alaska Fairbanks Permafrost, 2006-2008

 

Collections

University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK

Fountainhead Development Corp., Fairbanks, AK

Pike’s Waterfront Lodge, Fairbanks, AK

Chinook Montessori Charter School, Fairbanks, AK

Private Collections

 

Awards

2009, AlaskaOne Poster Artist, KUAC/AlaskaOne, “My Funny Valentines’

Honorable Mention, Quilt Alaska, Bear Gallery, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Fairbanks, AK. 2004

 

Associations

Professional member of the Society of Children’s Book Illustrators