Noah Webster Library Gallery
January 6-24
Public Reception: Wednesday, January 15, 6:00-7:30pm
Cedric Maunder: Bibliographia – Works by Michael Madore
About the Exhibit
Symptomkomplex. Observational overkill; “doorbell panic;” excessive pintucking; moodlability; inexplicable gaze strategy; fissiparousness; habitual twiddling; hypersensitivity to noise, cometary dust, glare, and minute seismicactivity; tweezer zealotry; exasperating tangential commentary; console fatigue; aggrieved gatekeeping; and an abnormal interest intelepathic encounters, lab escapes, chaos terrain, Wunderkammer, neuro-microcosmology, garden society protocol, arboreal lifeforms, Arachnida, botanical nomenclature, coven gossip, “Wand-Work.”
About the Artist
Michael Madore grew up in Hartford and studied art and literature at Trinity College during the late 1970s, focusing on medieval manuscript illumination and nineteenth-century artists and illustrators such as William Dadd and J. I. Grandville. Following several years in NYC, he returned to his home state, and on the advice of his psychiatrist, entered graduate school and earned his MFA at Yale University. Madore’s inspirations are vast, and his manner of artmaking is syncretic—in his work he weaves together ideas from naturalist classification systems, psychoanalytic literary theory, garden design, and space colonization. Long fascinated by architecture and cartography, he also makes reference to premodern eras in his work, picturing medieval castles,19th-century Anglo-German nomenclature and botanical illustration.
These exhibits are generously supported by the Thomas F. Kilfoil Memorial Bequest, West Hartford Library Foundation.
Previous Gallery Exhibitions
Trees of West Hartford (Winter 2019/2020)
We had more than 110 entries in this juried community art show featuring the trees of West Hartford. The gallery show was one of our most successful shows in library history.