Artist Statement

Okay, okay; and other lies we tell ourselves is a series of works in response to the increasing number of untruths about ourselves we quietly, loudly speak into existence.

“Do you smoke?” “No”, I say, having smoked a cigarette only an hour ago.

This work is an investigation into the lies I’ve told and continue to tell myself and the cognitive dissonance it implies. For dissonance is ambiguous, intangible. I often tie it to my feelings about perception. Having recently been diagnosed with a visual perception disorder these untruths have caused a more reactionary impulse. This disorder causes the world to seem dreamlike and delusive, an unwavering struggle between myself and reality. I can no longer sit with the dissonant discomfort like I used to. I’m interested in the perceptive patterns that these lies or untruths create as they build up in a portion of the psychological space, their combined power gradually forcing a change in my attitudes and behaviors.

Madeline Brice

Kansas City, Missouri based interdisciplinary queer visual artist Madeline Brice seeks to visually represent the fluidity of experiences and relationships through the lens of a visual perception disorder. She primarily works with oils on metallized mylar and aluminum, creating an experiential and experimental interaction with her work. She graduated from Missouri State University in 2015 with a BFA in painting and received a BA in Art History in May of 2018 from the same university. She is both a published and exhibiting artist having shown throughout Missouri and at a national level in both solo and juried group exhibitions. In collaboration with the Springfield Art Museum, she has installed many site specific installations for their fundraising events, hosted still life workshops, and given a number of artist talks and presentations. You can see her work as a part of the permanent collection at Hotel Vandivort and at Oh Gallery in Springfield, Missouri.

Her most recent commercial work can be seen on liquor store shelves with the rebranded Materfamilia beer label from Mother’s Brewing Company.