Madison Warp’s (b. 1996) paintings play at the fringe of dreams and the waking world with as much detail focused on capturing the reality of the scenes she paints as the emotive projections that she lays upon them. Her work deals primarily in eye-avoiding self-portraiture, vignettes of intimate ephemera, and gloomy, cinematic spirit-scapes. The scenes she creates straddle vivid reality and smokey fantasy, combining the fantastical narratives that her trauma and life experiences inspire and the spaces where she seeks to heal and process. Through these scenes she remedies trauma rooted in patriarchal forces and creates lucid spaces for empathy and catharsis. Warp lives and works in New York City.

Contact: mwarp@cranbrook.edu

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