Monday's Company
Monday’s Company
Maddie Butkovich
Monday's Company is a culmination of prints that harness the emotive capacity of line and color to express tone. The absurd forms trend from playful to deranged, provoking the emergence of narratives dependent on interactions between the prints themselves and the viewer's engagement with each. Images are deconstructed through monotype printmaking in an immediate and heavy-handed way to achieve warmth, agitation, and noise in the composition. The results disclose moments of tension and collaboration in chaos, signifying the physical process of distortion. Animals are depicted in an anthropomorphic way, adhering to our tendency to ascribe human traits to nonhuman species. The room then becomes a relational system of interactions, conversation, relationships, and movement between the animals, highlighting the hilarity of personhood.
Maddie Butkovich is a printmaker and painter from Virginia Beach, VA. She received her BSED in Kinesiology and High Distinction in Studio Art from the University of Virginia in 2023 and is currently an Aunspaugh Fellow at the University. Her prints result from process-driven play with the emotive quality of line and color. The work contemplates anthropomorphism, relational systems, and personification through crude and clunky drawing.