Madison Stickler is a Milwaukee-based painter who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Painting and Drawing from Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Stickler’s practice is centered around her interactions with the digital and physical worlds, where she aims to highlight the absurdity that comes with living in both. She has exhibited work at Real Tinsel in Milwaukee, WI, including in their recent show, Summer School and has had work in UWM’s Union Art Gallery several times. Stickler has also received multiple scholarships at UWM including the Laurence Rathsack Art Scholarship and the Rorabeck Memorial Scholarship. She currently has work up at Addendum’s Beauty in Expression in Milwaukee, WI. The show’s opening is August 14th and it will run until September 19th.

Her work is an exploration of the intersections between the digital world and the physical world. She compiles images from the Internet, like memes, and other visual language to represent the digital along with her own reference images to create compositions as a way to both insert her own self into the digital world and the digital world into her own life. The images collaged together form new contexts and meanings, making what’s “real” harder to decipher. She also explores outside of painting and drawing, using sculptural and technological elements mixed with these ideas to further find ways the bring the worlds together and play with reality.