I had a dialog lately with a colleague in regards to the aesthetic of loneliness. How does it look? Who paints it finest? I introduced up Maud Madsen, not that I discover her work to be a couple of unhappiness or absence, however that I liked the methods through which she paints a personality that’s intent and busy with being by themself. That her work showcased a type of loneliness that comes with motion, with articulated purpose, 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 strong new physique of labor that’s about home house and personal allocations of time. Once we spoke to Madsen just a few years in the past, she instructed us “Each time I think about a portray, I attempt to consider how every part felt.” And what I collect from her work is that these recollections 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 important to the remainder of us. —Evan Pricco
