As a student at The New York Academy of Art, Maud Madsen first developed her practice of painting from drawings, which meant inventing a unique palette for her largely monochromatic compositions. Single colors were helpful initially almost as identifiers, they way we associate red with a stop sign or certain shades of yellow with a school bus, but with increased competency came a deeper need for nuance and complexity. “How do you paint something pink in a green light?” she asks. The surface of her creek in “Strawberry Moon” can almost read as solarized photography, evoking nocturnal reflections. “It’s easier to capture a specific time if the color feels right,” she continues regarding the muted tones. In the end, we are all left to question whether we default to voyeurism when recalling our youth and the struggle to find a collective truth in our becoming.
Maud Madsen plunged headfirst into a welcoming art world, fairly fresh from her MFA program, with incomparable paintings oscillating between tension and leisure, confusion and calm. She reveals a deeply technical practice fortified by the artist’s studies in anatomy, a combination resulting in perspectives that feel previously unexplored—Maud Madsen is wading into a new frontier of figurative painting. She renders light, emotion, atmosphere, and personal experience as amalgamations that feel universally resonant but also ripe with the possibility of wildly varying interpretations.
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| Ms. Maud Madsen |
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| Built on Sand, 2020 |
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| Flightless Bird, 2020 |
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| Need a Ride?, 2020 |
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| Perky, 2020 |
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| Come Into View, 2021 |
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| Dangle, 2021 |
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| Opening Night, 2021 |
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| Stay in the Lines, 2021 |
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| Thumbsucker, 2021 |
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| Acrobat, 2022 |
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| Average, 2022 |
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| Caked, 2022 |
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| Exposed, 2022 |
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| Groundless, 2022 |
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| Mosquito Bites, 2022 |
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| Ungrown, 2022 |
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| Spider, 2022 |
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| Tethered, 2022 |
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| Toe-Dipper, 2022 |
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| Uprooted, 2022 |
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Water Baby, 2022
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| Baby Doll, 2023 |
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| Bug Collector, 2023 |
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| Doodlebug, 2023 |
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| Frilly , 2023 |
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| Guppy, 2023 |
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| Jelly Girl , 2023 |
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| Strawberry Moon, 2023 |
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| Sweet Pea, 2023 |
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