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The Long View presents ten paintings created by Madeleine Bialke during a two-month long residency at the Nemeth Art Center this spring and summer in Park Rapids, Minnesota. Some of the scenes depicted are memories from Madeleine’s childhood summers spent on her grandmother’s property in the woods around Straight River, south of Park Rapids, full of paths, ponds, dark woods, and meadows. Other compositions were born directly from the area around the residency house and studio, as well as Itasca State Park, where virgin timber—white and red pine— still stand. The past shapes how the present …