Opening: Madeline Rupard and Drew Rane: The Blue of Distance

Madeline Rupard and Drew Rane: The Blue of Distance
On view: October 3–November 21, 2025
Artist talk + opening reception: Friday, October 3, 5:30-9:00 pm

Material presents The Blue of Distance, a two-person exhibition by artists Madeline Rupard and Drew Rane.

Taking blue as both material and metaphor, the exhibition explores how two painters approach the landscape in distinct yet resonant ways. For centuries, artists have used blue to signal distance; Rupard and Rane extend this tradition, turning to blue as a shared language for exploring memory, perception, and the spaces between presence and absence.

Madeline Rupard is an artist and educator born in Provo, Utah, and raised in Maryland and Georgia. She received an MFA in Painting (2019) from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Studio Art (2016) from BYU, where she returned as Assistant Professor of Painting in 2024. In 2025 she published her first book, Passages, with Slow Worm Press and participated in the I Never Read Art Book Fair, Art Basel. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Booooooom, and exhibited at Lorin Gallery (Los Angeles), Black Paper Gallery (UK), and Room 57 Gallery (New York).

Drew Rane (b. 1991, Connecticut) is a New York–based painter and photographer. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (BFA, 2016), his work explores the tension between clarity and obscurity through layered materials and selective focus. Rooted in the concept of separation, his practice examines what is seen and what is hidden, inviting a slowed, meditative mode of looking. Rane has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Carrara (Italy), and Utah.

Image: Drew Rane, Over the Alps, Oil on Linen, 72 x 60 in, 2024.