Madeline Rupard was born in Utah and raised on the East Coast. She grew up moving around different parts of the U.S. and traveling across long distances. A sense of wonder at the modern world, and transient, lonely observation is instilled in her work; she is always passing through. She paints to describe the overwhelming sensory effect of the American landscape: the suburban in conjunction with the sublime, the mysterious in the mundane, and the ancient and man-made running up against each other. Her paintings appeared most recently in New American Paintings and she lives and works in New York.