Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 1st Floor
September - October 2007
Public Reception with the Artist on Friday, September 14th from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

How We Get Carried Away, a Master of Arts exhibition by Katelyn Alain, is a series of life-sized oil paintings created over the past two years. In her strongest and most cohesive body of work to date, Alain explores the relationship between memory perception, reality, and imagination through allegorical narratives. Alain's work will be exhibited in the Madison Municipal Building from September 4 through October 31.

About her work Alain says, "It is in the process of painting that I can open doors and find surprising insights into my deeply held perceptions. I believe that these personal explorations are also universal issues." The Madison Arts Commission is pleased to bring Alain's intensive paintings out of the studio and into the public view so that the community can actively participate in her visual process.

A public reception with the artist will be held on Friday, September 14 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.

The Madison Arts Commission's ARTspace program is open to all Madison visual artists who would like to showcase original two-dimensional works in highly utilized city spaces. The deadline to apply for exhibition space for 2008 is October 4, 2007. Applications are available at www.cityofmadison.com/mac.

Contact: Karin Wolf, (608) 261-9134, kwolf@cityofmadison.com