Moving Through

Solo Exhibition by Madalyn Loucks Sorrell

in the CVPA Dean's Suite 

Fall 2025

More About Moving Through

Moving Through is a collection of work that explores moments of bodily, social, and economic displacement. Sorrell aims to investigate these themes in every possible facet by “moving through” multiple mediums such as painting, metal sculpture, and film. 

In her practice, Sorrell has been investigating bodily memory to reckon with personal identity and chronic illness. Her work serves as an attempt to explore and challenge the displacement she feels in her own body. This displacement stems from experiences throughout her life where the body became a barrier between her and the ability to make decisions for herself. Sorrell’s work aims to reclaim autonomy through representations of these experiences. When she works with metal, the material demands a type of labor that feels ritualistic. It is a transaction between her body and the material. The heating and smashing of metal are metamorphic, not unlike how the body transforms during trauma. Metal, when under heat and pressure, becomes new. A new vessel for memory. Here, the broken thing becomes a testament to the resilience of the body rather than something invaluable. Changed and reassembled by my hands, this labor makes her the catalyst for these observable metamorphoses. 

About Second Stop 

Greensboro Project Space (GPS) is UNCG School of Art’s off-campus flexible art space that acts as a bridge between students and faculty and the Greensboro community. GPS Second Stop is an opportunity for student exhibitions to travel from Greensboro Project Space’s downtown location to the UNCG campus.

The four current Second Stop exhibitions are on view in the Dean’s Office for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Office of the School of Health & Human Sciences, the Collaborative Workspace for Public Health Education, and the Slane Lobby of the UNCG Auditorium. 

Are you a staff or faculty member at UNCG who would like your office or department to participate in Second Stop? Let us know! Email greensboroprojectspace@gmail.com