madworld - Meredith Alex Designs

Dear mad friends,

The madworld retail store is relocating and will be opening in the spring in a new Portland location, so stay tuned!
In the meantime, I will be working out of my Portland wholesale studio until we re-open the retail arm of the business.

The local listening lounge, the water closet gallery, and the 12x12 gallery will be continued in the new location. Artists & musicians please stay in touch. We look forward to working with you in the new space.

 

Please stay in the loop on our Facebook page "mad world" or follow us on twitter @madgirlworld.

For information about installations, custom designs, or mad wholesale products please email meredith [ at] madworlddesigns [dot ] com.

Zoom zoom
live your chaos. love the madness.......I sure am
kindly, madgirl

 

Two new artists – Greg Day and Suzanne Louise - in the Galleries and Zach Jones plays live music!
We're open extended hours 5-10 pm

Zach Jones, well known as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the band As Fast As has appeared on stages across the country at venues such as New York's Irving Plaza, Denver's Fillmore Auditorium and San Francisco's Warfield Theater opening shows for the likes of Maroon 5, OAR, Butch Walker, INXS, Gavin DeGraw, John Fogarty and more. Zach will play live solo sets for us between 8 and 10 pm so wear your dancing shoes! We have his cds Broken Record and Fading Flowers here in the Local Music Listening Lounge and we're really honored and happy he'll provide the music for First Friday! Plan to party 8-10 with us!

www.zachjonestunes.com

 

Local Sprouts will provide snacks!

June installation:

Wee Wee and Poop Man comic artist Pete Giordano The infamous cartoon zine artist framed up his work and converted the watercloset into an shrine, even the accessories match. Come spend some quality time reading before July is upon us..

 

July installation:

In The Water Closet Gallery, Greg Day takes over! Greg Day is a painter with roots in rural Maine. Day has had a life-long fascination with space, light and the relationship between the organic and the engineered.

You may know him for Elva or his former exhibition at the Hay Gallery! Greg gets free reign to surprise us with his Water Closet installation which opens Friday July 1, for the month of July!

The madhouse studio proudly announces the opening of the new 12x12x12 gallery in the front of the store. It is a small works gallery showcasing artists from around the country. Twelve pieces on display and all artwork is 12" by 12". Last month was our inaugural exhibit, "Strange Brain" by emerging artists Max Alex and Isahiah Pottle. Each piece is a collaboration between the two as they passed the artwork back and forth, each inspired by the previous artist’s stroke of hand. The result, a beautiful collision of two creative strange brains. 7 of the 12 pieces have sold. To see the rest of the show before it comes down, stop in before July 1st.

Next up for this month is collage artist Suzanne Louise who describes her collage collection "Last Look" like this:

I am very interested in signs, symbols, art history, iconography, fate and chance. My work is layered with specific images from artists I like and random images. I enjoy the process of creating relationships between different times, artists and cultures. I think my process and end product is very similar to writing haiku. They are a form of visual haiku. This particular body of work "Last Look" is site specific, meaning that I created with the energy of Mad Girl World in mind.

 

The madhouse studio presents: “LifeStyle Corners” - Corners of the studio dedicated to theme styled living. These corners include:

• The madclub spring corner offers a twist on golf, yacht and tennis club clothing. Lots of Argile, pretty pastels and polos gone mad.
• The madamericana corner is nothing but red, white and blue baby. Show up to your 4th of July picnic in madstyle.
• The madcountry corner has the wildest overalls you will ever encounter, tractor t-shirts and the best straw hats for your favorite maine outdoor music festival. 
• The madmusic corner opposite our local music listening lounge offers everything in the color of rocker. Including the infamous Hutch Heelan Trucker Hats.
• The madchill vintage winter corner is still out on display and It's all 25% off.
• The madhunt fall corner has lots of fun flannel, camo and hunter orange. out of the maine woods lives on!
• The LIVEme corner is dedicated to my friend Chris Avantaggio's lifestyle brand celebrating all things awesome about living in Maine. BEERme, SURFme, SAILme, BIKEme, FARMme and LOVEme to the t-shirt options for men and women.  Also, pint glasses, mugs, stickers, baby onesies, t-shirt options for men and women.