Maddy has always been observant. As children inspired by Harriet the Spy, she and her identical twin would scan the neighborhood, observing a line of ants marching up a tree trunk or their best friend’s mother stumbling in new lime green espadrilles. Maddy and her sister noted these details and included them in their drawings. 

Some years later, Maddy earned an MFA in Printmaking from Colorado State University. For a while she taught in the same program. In 2003 the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, now the Fort Collins Museum of Art, exhibited her etchings and pastel drawings in the show, Borrowed Space. Roz Spencer’s gallery, Only Contemporary Art, featured From the Studio of Madeline Weisz. This 2007 exhibit showcased paintings and etchings of seventeen imaginary landscapes. 

The Pace Center of Parker, Colorado presented Tom Lundberg and Maddy Weisz, Embroideries and Drawings, which included 18 of Maddy’s multi-media artworks exploring image overload in the urban environment. Her painting, Lost, chosen by guest juror Zoe Larkins for the program cover of the 2017 Annual Contemporary Art Survey at the Lincoln Center, foreshadows her current figurative work.

Working from her studio in Colorado, she considers her daily art-making practice as necessary for her well-being as breathing. She paints, she walks, she breathes, and from her front window she watches the geese and dogs and people in the park. 

She is an artist. 

And a spy.