Conjunctio, 2011
Collaborative Performance
20:15
Performed at Upstairs at the Market Gallery
Los Angeles, CA June 23, 2011
Untitled, 2001
From series, Heartland
Red ink on rice paper
“From Latin, memor” - 2010
Experimental video projection
Part of the Body of Time project
7min 29sec
This film is part of a three part site-specific and time-based installation involving sound, photography, text and slide projections that compose a system for reckoning time.
The audio-clip that plays simultaneously with the video projection is currently unavailable for viewing outside of the gallery.
See here for more information.
We’re Very Sorry for Your Loss, 2008
Video projection and time based performance piece
4min 55 sec.
DV Cam
The video is projected on a blank wall in a dark, black-box room. The artist is seated in front of the projection on a wooden stool. She is dressed in a black gown, her face veiled in a black lace mantilla. In her lap she holds a box of Sacred-Heart heavy-duty matches. She takes a match out of the box, and as she lights it - the video feed begins. Thus commences the time-based portion of the piece.
Throughout the duration of the video, the artist lights one match after another, letting it burn almost to her finger tips, then blowing out the flame. The light of the fire illuminates her face, hidden beneath the mantilla. The hint of sulphur and burning wood begins to fill the room as she drops the matches in a porcelain dish of water resting in her lap.
Once the video comes to a conclusion, the artist blows out her last match, leaving herself and the audience cloaked in complete darkness.
Special thanks to Parichard Holm and Ryan Zufryden. And, of course, Linda Lopez.
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“Fire Body” - 2008
Experimental video
Digital
PHOTOGRAPHY / LOMOGRAPHY
Street photography, lomography, digital, and film. 2006-present.
Pentax 35mm
Alley-way on Hollis Street Halifax, Nova Scotia
Outside Wall, Hollis Street. Halifax, Nova Scotia
From Made Line Street Photography
Diana F+ and Holga Pinhole Camera
PHOTO2 Clouds over Malibu, 2010
MacArthur Park, 2010 Multi-layered pinhole 
PHOTO13A Wet sand in Malibu, 2010
PHOTO14 The fountain in MarArthur Park, 2010
From Made Line Street Photography Saint George’s Island. Halifax, Nova Scotia 
From Made Line Street Photography Ice on the waterfront. Halifax, Nova Scotia 
From Made Line Street Photography Mailbox. Santa Monica Airport, CA 
From Made Line Street Photography Wood bone. Malibu, CA 
From Made Line Street Photography Redwood Tree. Beverly Hills, CA
From Made Line Street Photography Grandfather’s Bell. Houston, TX 
From Made Line Street Photography Church at sunset. Houston, TX
From Art in the Sweltering Heart Athens through Athena. Disposable camera. Forgotten Greek Island
Residency
Artist in residence for Spring - 2010, The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts Ojai, CA
I spent a month in residence at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts located in Happy Valley — a culturally significant location that was home to writers and thinkers such as Aldous Huxley, Krishna Murti and the Mama of Dada, contemporary artist Beatrice Wood. The center itself is the former home of the late artist Beatrice Wood and her dear friend, Rosalind Rojagopal.
During this time, I had the opportunity to work with the students at the Besant Hill School, named after theosophist and feminist speaker and writer, Annie Besant. My work with the students, the cultural significance of Happy Valley, and my final exhibition are detailed below.
The culmination of the month is a 6 week solo exhibition featuring a time based, site-specific, multi-media installation.
BODY OF TIMESpring 2010 – Residency
“I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time…Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.”
- Beatrice Wood
In her current residency at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Lucy Madeline will make work that is both inspired by and a response to the intentions and lives of Beatrice Wood and Annie Besant. Leaving all preconceived notions about art, life, and making behind in her Los Angeles studio, she approaches this experience as an out-of-time and place happening – an experiment in receptivity of inspiration from outside sources. So far in her stay at Happy Valley, she is confronted with notions of time. Through a series of personal revelations, she will make work that discusses the relationship to and the recording of the passage of time. Her visceral vocabulary consists of themes of waiting, absorbing, and counting, in the body, in the mind, and in life.
You can follow her chronicle of her experiences in Happy Valley at her blog, which she keeps in the spirit of documentation and preservation of that ever fleeting substance – time.
Lucy Madeline is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in video and sculptural installation, performance, photography, and painting. Her work is characterized by a fundamental search for understanding, redefining the relationship to body, self, sexuality, personal history and transformation. By utilizing form, the passage of time and repetition of ritualistic actions, she connects with archaic imagery and tradition, communicating themes of voyage, separation, and the sacralization of the mundane. She presently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. www.lucysartposts.blogspot.com www.lucymadeline.com
From Art in the Sweltering Heart
Statement of Intent written before the residency began:
Spring 2010 Residency - The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
Lucy Madeline is presently in preparations for a month long residency at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts - Spring, 2010. Her proposed work includes experimental film, performance, and sculptural installation. Through her art, she hopes to honor the valued efforts and intentions of the world renowned contemporary artist Beatrice Wood, Beatrice’s dear friend, feminist writer and Theosophist Dr. Annie Besant, writer and author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, and spiritual and philosophical teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti.
She will spend a month in the Center’s Artist Quarters working in Beatrice Wood’s former studio at the foot of Topa Topa Mountain in Happy Valley.
The work will be shown in the months of May and June, 2010.
“She envisioned this site as a place to establish an educational center that would nurture spiritual, artistic and intellectual growth as well as physical and mental well-being. She also knew that sustainable worldwide improvement in the human condition begins with the individual.”
- The Happy Valley Foundation, on Annie Besant’s Life and Work
From Made Line
From Made Line
Paintings from Body of Work
Strange Fruit 2007 acrylic on bristol board
Skeleton Woman 2007 pencil on paper, water-color applique
Awake 2007 pencil, acrylic, on bristol board
Absorption, 2008
Time-based ephemeral sculpture.
White plaster, red ink.
The negative cast of a breast filled with red ink. As the ink absorbs into the body of plaster, a red film begins to form. The skin thickens as more ink is added and eventually a positive cast is made of the breast.
Theory:Absorption shows the relationship between the container, the negative space within, and the object contained. The liquid that seems to be disappearing is in fact absorbing into the body of the piece. As the ink builds and dries, it forms a new object that is the shape of the negative space of original form which shrinks over time with exposure to oxygen and eventually disintegrates. Absorption is emblematic of the female body as it experiences and processes loss through the act of containing, absorbing, and regenerating with eventual decay and renewal - it is a physical representation of the cultural female experience.
Hem/Rrhage, 2009
Ephemeral sculpture
Red thread, stool
Hem - blood/heistation
Rrhage - Bursting forth, copious loss of something valuable.
The thread is spooled out layer upon layer onto the floor. The source of the thread, in industrial sized spool, sits upright on top of a wooden and steel stool. The definitions of the both the prefix “hem” and the suffix “rrhag” (as seen above) are seen on white plastic placards at opposite ends of the piece
”hem/Rrhag” explores the relationship between tension and release. The thread seems to “burst forth” out on the floor, creating intricate, swirling, mandala-like patterns. It is at once both shocking and beautiful - grotesque and artfully compelling.
The webbed mass of red thread takes on the form of blood vessels, as though organically and systematically formed. The resulting image seems to be of a great spilling out, a great loss of the something bright, something vibrant. Emphasizing the theme of the definition of copious loss: loss of time, loss of blood, loss of vitality, loss of spirit.
Trapped 2010
Photographic series
