Artist Explores Self-Portraiture through Varied Mediums

First Friday Exhibition Opening “I See Myself in You” by Maddie Hinrichs 

LINCOLN, Neb. (May 4, 2023) LUX Center for the Arts presents “I See Myself in You” by Maddie Hinrichs, Friday, May 5 – 5-8 p.m. opening reception. 

Maddie Hinrichs is an artist in residence at the LUX Center for the Arts. She received her MFA in 2022 from the University at Albany and was the recipient of the MFA Thesis Award. She received her BFA from UN-L in 2019. She works with oil painting and embroidery mediums that explore the psychology of interiors. The surreal spaces expedite self-reflection and perception, challenging and conforming to the illusion of paint. 

“My work explores the psychology of interiors through oil paint and embroidery. These mediums find a balance that endures in all my pieces: that of surrealism and realism, textile and paint, dreams, and memory, old and new. Complicated reflections are purposely expansive to create the semblance of deep space that sits on the surface of the work. The spaces are surreal, disparate perspectives forced together around doorways open and closed, offering entrance to new realities. At times the textile can be distinct, at others recede into the colors surrounding it. Detailed and delicate paint is interrupted by thick controlled swathes of impasto and rough textured threads. My work is about self-reflection and perception, challenging and conforming to the illusion of paint,” states Hinrichs.

These works explore self-portraiture through reflection, pushing and pulling the artist’s silhouette through a series of scenes seen within paintings, photographs, drawings, and prints. The reflections embody trompe l’œil as they flicker between what is real and what is illusion, what is echoed, and what is based in reality. Embroidery and paint, figures and objects all blend and contrast with one another.