ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I aim through my work to shift the mood, as I produce work, as I work with others to produce art, and as my art is viewed. My work is abstract, infused with light and comprised of subtle palettes, as well as with gilded tones and golden glints to bring a sense of tranquility and enchantment.
ABOUT
Madeleine Schachter's art traverses a journey to lightness, comprised of subtle palettes. Each piece implies movement, infused with buoyancy and sensation that defies pragmatism and precision, and uses tilt and tinge to evoke a sense of hope. Suggestive abstraction endows the viewer with prospect and possibility, entrusting that implication will arouse contemplation to enable unique flights into self-reflection and sentiment. She works in mixed media, including pastels, watercolors, acrylics, metal leaf, and glass crystals, and she employs unusual materials, such as mascara.
She exhibits her work internationally, including in the United States, France, Austria, China, England, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.
Ms. Schachter has used art to empower and engage people in transitional housing, survivors of domestic violence, refugees, in-patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital, inmates at Rikers Correctional Facility in New York, adult and pediatric patients in Hospices of Hope in Brasov, Bucharest, and Copaceni, Romania and in Chisinau and Orhei, Moldova, and in Kyiv, Ukraine for children bereaved by loss of one or both parents due to the war in Ukraine. She has also worked with Syrian refugee children in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, and she has trained Syrian and Lebanese teachers in Beqaa, Lebanon to use such techniques. She arranged to exhibit artwork produced by Ukrainian children at the US Capitol, at a British Consulate, and at the Ukrainian Institute, and to exhibit artwork produced by Syrian children at Christie’s. She recently led similar workshops in Aweil, South Sudan with those served by the international humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide.
One of the books she wrote, Creativity Connections: Wellness Through Artistic Expression, explains how to use art to empower oneself and others. The book is now in its second edition.