Mads Frechette (b. 1992) is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Her expressive paintings of charged color and totemic marks are worked across many sessions. They become capsules of time, absorbing traces of the world around her and the artist's own
inner life.
For Frechette, painting is as much a process of accumulation as it is one of excavation. She approaches her canvases as palimpsests, each work beginning intuitively and revealed slowly over weeks and months of sustained looking and responding to the oil paint. Rather than imposing a style or plan, Frechette gives each painting what it needs. Indifferent to compositional convention, each work finds completion on its own terms. What the surface ultimately holds is not decided but revealed, a testament to what survives the search.
Education
2010-2012 BFA Pratt Institute, Incomplete
Mads Frechette (b. 1992) is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Her expressive paintings of charged color and totemic marks are worked across many sessions. They become capsules of time, absorbing traces of the world around her and the artist's own
inner life.
For Frechette, painting is as much a process of accumulation as it is one of excavation. She approaches her canvases as palimpsests, each work beginning intuitively and revealed slowly over weeks and months of sustained looking and responding to the oil paint. Rather than imposing a style or plan, Frechette gives each painting what it needs. Indifferent to compositional convention, each work finds completion on its own terms. What the surface ultimately holds is not decided but revealed, a testament to what survives the search.
Education
2010-2012 BFA Pratt Institute, Incomplete
Mads Frechette (b. 1992) is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Her expressive paintings of charged color and totemic marks are worked across many sessions. They become capsules of time, absorbing traces of the world around her and the artist's own
inner life.
For Frechette, painting is as much a process of accumulation as it is one of excavation. She approaches her canvases as palimpsests, each work beginning intuitively and revealed slowly over weeks and months of sustained looking and responding to the oil paint. Rather than imposing a style or plan, Frechette gives each painting what it needs. Indifferent to compositional convention, each work finds completion on its own terms. What the surface ultimately holds is not decided but revealed, a testament to what survives the search.
Education
2010-2012 BFA Pratt Institute, Incomplete