about

Madeline Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist from Pennsylvania. In spring of 2023 she graduated from University of Rochester with a B.A. in Studio Arts with highest distinction, and with a minor in Psychology. Her work has recently been shown in a solo exhibition at Colleen Buzzard Studio, in a solo exhibition at Frontispace Gallery, and in group exhibitions at the As/Is Gallery at the University of Rochester, and at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, where she was an invited speaker. She was the recipient of the Elizabeth M. Anderson Award in 2023 for her research and production in the Studio Art discipline at the University of Rochester.

Coleman’s work distorts the intrinsic purpose of familiar objects, using their natural state as canvas with which to express the uncomfortable, and far too unspoken, mentally ill experience. Through manipulation of elements such as materiality or scale, these objects become personified through their flaws and non-functionality. And through the separation and absurd physicalization of feelings, there is catharsis.