maddie cantrell

Maddie Cantrell is a painter currently studying at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she will receive her BFA in Painting in 2025. She creates emotional landscapes dealing with grief in all aspects of life. She often uses pinks and purples in her abstract paintings. Her work was included in the exhibition  Don’t Get Me Started, in the Student Alumni Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2023. She is currently participating in the Creativity Works internship program at the Cleveland Institute of Art on an exhibition about grief, for grieving people, in partnership with Hospice of the Western Reserve. She loves coffee and collecting things.

For this class exhibition, Maddie’s work responds to Cleveland Clouds (1994) by Vik Muniz!