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Los Angeles– Painter Madeline Ludwig-Leone presents Secondary Source, a new body of work that investigates how the natural world is framed, translated, and ultimately controlled through systems of perception and representation. Drawing from traditions of Western landscape painting while quietly destabilizing them, Ludwig-Leone situates fragments of nature within constructed interiors—window panes, floor planes, and beams—where landscape becomes something staged rather than experienced.
A 2024 graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, Ludwig-Leone approaches painting as an inquiry into how desire and ideology shape vision. Her compositions reference the Hudson River School and artists such as Thomas Cole, yet instead of sublime wilderness, viewers encounter model trees, arranged stones, open books, and sharply defined shadows. These elements form what the artist describes as “interior landscapes”—studio-bound scenes that expose the distance between lived environments and their…
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Los Angeles– Painter Madeline Ludwig-Leone presents Secondary Source, a new body of work that investigates how the natural world is framed, translated, and ultimately controlled through systems of perception and representation. Drawing from traditions of Western landscape painting while quietly destabilizing them, Ludwig-Leone situates fragments of nature within constructed interiors—window panes, floor planes, and beams—where landscape becomes something staged rather than experienced.
A 2024 graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, Ludwig-Leone approaches painting as an inquiry into how desire and ideology shape vision. Her compositions reference the Hudson River School and artists such as Thomas Cole, yet instead of sublime wilderness, viewers encounter model trees, arranged stones, open books, and sharply defined shadows. These elements form what the artist describes as “interior landscapes”—studio-bound scenes that expose the distance between lived environments and their…















































