hold on & let go | Works by Madeleine Ignon

On View January 16 – March 10, 2026

William Rolland Art Center

Exhibition Dates: January 16 – March 10, 2026

Artist Talk & Reception: February 5, 2026
Artist Talk: 3:30 PM
Reception: 4:30–5:30 PM

hold on & let go, an exhibition gathering ten years of multimedia work by artist and designer Madeleine Ignon. The exhibition brings together paintings and multi-panel works that merge painterly gesture, graphic precision, and craft traditions, illuminating Ignon’s sustained exploration of how order and disorder coexist in visual language.

Ignon’s practice engages the materiality of the canvas itself—its surface acting as terrain where paint pools, flows, and settles. Influences of quiltmaking, collage, and graphic design are evident, as layered spaces open onto simultaneous modes of perception: rational and intuitive, structured and expressive. Works in the exhibition also address Ignon’s experience of becoming a mother, tracing psychological and physical transformation through shifts in identity, attention, and language. Text, found and personal, weaves through the compositions, functioning as both marker and memory.

Madeleine Ignon earned her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2019. She teaches graphic design at Santa Barbara City College and art at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She has been awarded residencies nationally and internationally and is one-half of the experimental curatorial collaborative Beta Epochs.

madeleineignon.com

witch fingers, 2024

she swam, 2016

grawlix II, 2025