Vernal Equinox, Recent Photograms includes twenty-five photograms completed over the last four years and is Martha Madigan's third solo exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Working outdoors in nature without a camera, Madigan in recent years has explored two major subjects in her work: the image of the newborn baby and the image of the adolescent female. Both subjects will be explored in the exhibition.

For more than twenty-five years, Martha Madigan has been creating photograms that refer to, record and/or transform aspects of nature and the human figure. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Madigan studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.S.) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A.). Throughout her career, she has explored a variety of light-sensitive materials from the earliest cyanotype process to the latest technology in digital color photography. Working predominantly under the sunlight of Pennsylvania and Maine with models who are most often her own three children, Madigan seeks to find “the essential truth in the teachings of nature; death and life as a continuum;