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Madelynne Engle
www.englestudio.com

Artist Name: Madelynne Engle

Title of Piece: Wisdom

Media: bronzecoat, fiberglass, cement

Dimensions: 99”H x 27”W x 20”D

Retail Price: $14,000 + tax

Artist’s Statement: Wisdom looks to the future, to all of our unlimited possibilities. Sometimes it is an extension built on what has gone before, and just as often, a departure. Wisdom has an awareness of the Void into which we create, and she senses when to accept the invitation of the unknown.

Artist Bio: Madelynne Engle was born and schooled in Iowa and Missouri, teaching high school and college in the St. Louis area while raising three children. Engle was selected to represent Missouri for national tours during America’s Bi-Centennial. She was selected by “La Review Moderne” as one of the top five young American artists in 1974. With her move to California in 1978, her art underwent a major transformation, from classical portraiture and landscape to contemporary and conceptual sculpture and painting. Engle taught and served on the Board for SDSU’s Extension School, and renovated a 42,000 sq. ft. warehouse in San Diego for 48 artists. She has taken awards in sculpture, painting, graphics, portraiture, multimedia, and sculpture. Her work is in private and corporate collections from New Zealand to France, including the Hilton Collection, Bank of America, E.F. Hutton, Monsanto, and the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Engle’s studios were burned to the ground in the 2007 Wildfires. She has recently rebuilt and maintains her new studio in Fallbrook, CA, creating contemporary works in bronze, cement, fiberglass, and mixed media, many with sound and water elements.

Photo: Rachel Cobb