Madge Evers

Western Massachusetts

Madge Evers works on paper with various media and processes: the cyanotype, an alternative photographic process; mushroom spores from foraged mushrooms; paint and ink.

Madge Evers explores the transformative cycles of dormancy, decay, and ecstatic growth in plant life. Her work uses alternative photography, mushroom spores, and painting to depict actual details of a landscape as well imagined flora.

Each piece begins as an abstract cyanotype photogram on paper. She then adds and subtracts layers of emulsion, integrating paint, ink, and collage elements.

The cyanotype, an alternative photographic process pioneered by botanist Anna Atkins in 1843 for the first photographic book, allows for flexibility, revision, and repair—mirroring transformative qualities inherent to the natural world.

Evers earned a BA from Suffolk University in Boston and an MA from the University of Rhode Island. The artist has participated in exhibitions at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA; The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT; Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA; among others.

Evers curated and exhibited in the 2024 group show Biomorph at Split Level Gallery in Northampton, MA. Evers had her third solo show at ECA Gallery in Easthampton, MA and he second solo show at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA. Recently, Evers attended the artist residency at Chautauqua Arts and in 2023, she attended residencies at Cill Railiag, Kerry, Ireland and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, VA. In 2022, Evers participated in artist residencies at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst, MA and Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation, Jonesport, ME. In 2021, Evers was a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist in Photography and a Photolucida Critical Mass top 200 in 2019.

Evers currently lives and works in western Massachusetts and is working on a book about the cyanotype process that will be published by Storey in 2026.

"Art gives me the opportunity to sit with the complex feelings of living - joy, grief, anger, and grace, to name but a few."