“What if the paintings were materials to make something else?”

When painter Susan Maddux posed this question to herself, the answer took her in a whole new direction. What forms could a painting take if you took it off the canvas stretchers?

Taking her paintings off the frames and cutting them up, Maddux spent a year exploring every way she could think of to reconfigure a painting. Eventually it was a simple gesture that was the answer.

- Noelle Foye, Fiber Art Now, Spring 2025