Madeliene Abling brings her P-town style to town

I met artist Madeliene Abling at Framworks on Saturday night, where her work was featured for the Gallery Walk. Madeliene is in town from Provencetown, MA, where she owns the Abling Gallery, which his open every summer. She is quite prolific in her art and her style as she moves from nautical scenes to martinis and wine, which down here in the Grove are quite interchangeable. Above are Madeliene, left, with Cris Sweeny, of Frameworks.


It's quite apropos that during Regatta season, that Madeliene has blown into town to paint beautiful, colorful sail boats and lots of juicy beverages. If you pass by Frameworks, you cannot help but notice the incredible window displays that feature the art mingled with the real thing.

Madeline's work fits into the local scene of the moment as her Provencetown pieces are more about old schooners, VW buses and jazz.


Madeliene's art is for sale and on display at Frameworks through the end of the month. Frameworks is at the corner of Commodore Plaza and Grand Avenue, you can't miss those lively windows. Her work is also represented by Studio E Gallery in Palm Beach and she will soon have her work represented in South Beach by one of the top galleries, the Williams McCall Gallery (110 Washington Avenue). And of course the art is at her own gallery in P-town in the summer. She usually sells out everything during her summer run up north.

She enjoyed the Grove Gallery Walk on Saturday night. "I felt somewhat like a debutante being introduced into the South Florida art world. I've not shown here before. We had a great turnout; the traffic increased the later it got," says Madeliene.


She went on to say, "I was reading through your blog and saw a photo which said something like 'put the nut back in Coconut Grove,' and it so reminded me of P-town. I'm thinking of buying something down here in the next year or so and Coconut Grove will definitely be on the list."