MADISON HENNESSEY ART
Artist bio
Madison Hennessey is an artist from Rochester, New York.
Hennessey uses oil paint to convey themes of femininity and the natural world in a diaristic, often illustrative depiction. Her style, heavily influenced by dreams and fantasy, intertwines a personal perspective of womanhood with the functions of plants and rural inhabitants.
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Madison attends the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, and is working to achieve her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting.
Artist statement
My work explores themes of femininity and the natural world in illustrative realism. I have always enjoyed being outdoors, and the women in my family have inspired me from a young age in this type of setting. I feel most myself in nature and rural open spaces because of their ability to ground me. In turn, I feel spiritually and emotionally connected to the soothing effect of plants, skies, and being within my body and imagination. I had a frustrating adolescence, and the many positive and negative fascists of girlhood and becoming a woman are the underlying groundwork supporting the narratives I create within my art. Within theories such as ecofeminism, I compare functions in nature to my surreal perception of unspoken moments within womanhood in a diaristic and fantastical way.
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