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Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox, Recent Photograms

May 8 – June 30, 2001


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Installation Views - Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox, Recent Photograms - May 8 – June 30, 2001 - Exhibitions
Installation Views - Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox, Recent Photograms - May 8 – June 30, 2001 - Exhibitions
Installation Views - Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox, Recent Photograms - May 8 – June 30, 2001 - Exhibitions
Installation Views - Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox, Recent Photograms - May 8 – June 30, 2001 - Exhibitions


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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;

the temporary nature of the body; and the struggle between human desire and spiritual evolution.” For Madigan, her work is a direct experience of light and the fragility of life through the seasons. A professor at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia since 1979, Madigan has been honored with numerous awards of distinction including a 1996 Leeway Grant for Excellence in Photography. In 1996, the Haggerty Art Museum in Milwaukee organized her first solo museum exhibition, and that same year she completed her first public commission: the signature artwork for the CoreStates Center sports arena in Philadelphia. Madigan is represented in numerous museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC is the exclusive representative of Martha Madigan.