Madeline Coven

Madeline Coven is an artist and designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now based in Queens, New York, she works in sculpture and fabrication. She studied sculpture at Pitzer College and has exhibited work in the US and abroad. Her work focuses on materiality and craft through wood, clay, metal, textiles, resins, and a wide range of processes, aiming to highlight the long traditions they hold and the vast ways they can be interpreted and reimagined. Through a study of material histories, the natural world, and the ecosystems their interactions create, the work investigates the element of chance and change. Both the sculptural and functional sides of her work aim to hold a sense of time, through suggestion of movement and interpreting the way the earth naturally preserves; as all things age, ancient and new.