bio
Madge Evers uses foraged materials to explore decomposition and regeneration and has adapted the mushroom spore print form to make works on paper. Referencing photosynthesis and the ancient collaboration in mycorrhiza, her practice sometimes includes photography, the cyanotype process, and paint. Her work has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and acquired by private and institutional collectors. Artist residencies in New England, Virginia, and Ireland have allowed Evers to interact with landscapes and their histories. Madge lives and works in western Massachusetts where she was a public school teacher for 25 years. She now facilitates cyanotype workshops for people of all ages.
statement
My work literally depicts plants, fungi, and sometimes birds, but more figuratively explores our entangled dependence on an ever-changing environment as the desire to shape the natural world yields increasingly chaotic results. With various media, including the cyanotype process, paint, and an adaptation of the mushroom spore print, I create biomorphic abstractions on paper. Spore print monoprints and cyanotypes rely on the elements; organic materials influence my process as they act as both subject and medium. In whatever form the work takes, I’m interested in the familiarity and strangeness in cycles of growth and regeneration.
Crossing, mushroom spores on paper, 2018