Madeline Goolie’s recent linocut reduction print, “FIREWEED,” is the biggest print that she has ever completed.
Her piece features a long-legged pink moose with long, luscious lashes standing in a forest of bright green and blue birch trees; the moose’s antlers look akin to a fireweed plant.
Each print went through the press 10 times, Goolie said.
“I made it a very complicated reduction print,” Goolie said. “So I separated it into two blocks, the moose and the background, because the pinks and greens weren’t going to layer over each other nicely. There is a lot of math involved!”
Goolie, who goes by Meg Art 907, is an artist from Anchorage currently studying at Washington State University. She recently wrapped “EMOTIONLESS,” a solo exhibition at Akela Space highlighting her printmaking work, specifically linoleum block relief prints.
Goolie says that she originally wanted to go to school for business, but after taking a gap year due to COVID, she made the decision to go all-in on art.
“So my first couple years, I just handled ceramics,” Goolie said. “I had no interest in printmaking whatsoever. I just ended up taking it as a class because I ran out of credits to take for ceramics and you can only take it so many times. They were like, ‘You got to do something else.’”
Being in Pullman, WA, where WSU is located, has given Goolie the opportunity to expand her reach. She recently became president of the Print and Zine Club on campus, and secretary of WSU’s Art Club, and says she’s just 15 minutes away from Moscow, Idaho — where she has had community art shows.
“They have incredible opportunities,” Goolie said. “They have a few galleries over there. I get my work into City Hall quite often. They have one of the top nationally ranked farmers markets, and I got into that last year … It’s been a lot of growing and maturing, but it’s been really awesome to get into the art community.”
Goolie is graduating in spring of 2025, and having a Bachelor of Fine Arts show, which means that she gets her own gallery space; she wants to work on some “really big paintings” for that project, she says. She also has plans this summer to work on some lithography prints.
Sam Davenport is a writer residing in Anchorage. She's a leo and a plant-person, and loves spending quality time with her dog, Aspen. She is a Real Housewives fan and has been called a Bravo historian.