11/05/2026
LOYAL is pleased to present A Far Cry, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Madeleine Bialke, her first solo exhibition with the gallery and her third time exhibiting with us. The exhibition is comprised of five oil paintings on canvas in which Bialke’s use of shifting color, light, and perspective tests the emotional and structural possibilities of landscape painting. The resulting works are simultaneously intimate, uncanny, and structurally precise.
A FAR CRY
Madeleine Bialke
May 15–June 13, 2026
Opening with the artist Friday, May 15, 5–7 pm
Color and light register immediately in Bialke’s paintings. Deep oranges, pinks, and blues carry a saturated intensity, where color functions less as description and more as a carrier of sensation. Light appears to originate from within the image and reflect back across it. The result is physical. Heat, brightness, and atmosphere are felt before the image is fully read.
Complex systems of foliage, sky, water, and light are compressed into rounded, tubular shapes that streamline the image without emptying it of force. There is a proximity here to Léger and Tubism, where form is organized through cylinders and repetition, though in Bialke’s work this logic emerges through the natural world rather than the industrial one.
The paintings draw from the Adirondack Mountains, where Bialke has been visiting since childhood, now revisited through distance and memory, “a far cry” from her present surroundings. She describes this shift as “memory watching,” the experience of seeing an image change with each encounter. Adapting John Cheever’s comments on writing to painting, Bialke describes the process as drawing from “a substratum of memory that was imperfectly understood.” Bialke revisits this formative landscape not to preserve it, but to test how memory and form continue to evolve through painting.
Across the works, trees remain the central force, not as backdrop or symbol, but as living structures carrying memory, relation, and vitality.
Bialke is represented by
