I had a dialog not too long ago with a colleague in regards to the aesthetic of loneliness. How does it look? Who paints it greatest? I introduced up Maud Madsen, not that I discover her work to be a few unhappiness or absence, however that I cherished the methods through which she paints a personality that’s intent and busy with being by themself. That her work showcased a sort of loneliness that comes with motion, with articulated motive, with ardour. I do not discover her character to be lonely, however permitting the viewer to see inside somebody’s personal time, personal house.
Dweller, her new present opening subsequent week at Half Gallery, is a robust new physique of labor that’s about home house and personal allocations of time. After we spoke to Madsen just a few years in the past, she instructed us “Every time I think about a portray, I strive to consider how the whole lot felt.” And what I collect from her work is that these reminiscences she portrays are indications of how time works on the thoughts, that she remembers the sensation of being by one’s self and making an attempt to make due and let youth current itself as it’s. These really feel like portraits of understanding one’s house on the planet, and for Madsen, her explorations really feel very important to the remainder of us. —Evan Pricco
