Madeline A. Stratton: Welcome Back
About
Hamiltonian Artists presents Welcome Back, Madeline A. Stratton’s first solo exhibition of painting and sculpture as a Hamiltonian Artists Fellow. The exhibition will be on view by appointment only October 31–November 28, 2023, at Studio 1469, 1469 Harvard St NW, Washington, DC 20009. All public programs will take place online.
In Welcome Back, Stratton uses vibrant color, irregular form, and multimedia textiles to represent personal spaces from memory. The layering of domestically associated materials and structural wooden forms create a stage-like interaction between the artist’s memories, the sculptural paintings, and the walls of the gallery. The artist uses both paintings hung on the wall and three-dimensional floor pieces to create an immersive representation of these spaces. In a global moment of isolation and solitude, Stratton’s work provides a joyful respite for us to reflect on the spaces we occupy and those to which we can no longer return. The exercise of recollection produces an intentional vagueness that can simultaneously hold the artist’s personal history and a ubiquitous reflection of suburban American homes.
About the artist
Madeline A. Stratton (b. 1987, Memphis) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Washington, DC. In 2018, she completed her Multidisciplinary MFA in the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she received a Merit Scholarship. She holds an MA in History of Art and the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary from Christie’s Education in New York, and a BA in Studio Art and History of Art from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Stratton has experience working as a cataloguer of Prints & Multiples at Christie’s auction house in New York and as a cataloguer of American works on paper at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She has exhibited in Nashville, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and throughout the Washington, DC, area. In 2018, she completed the Keyholder Residency at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, MD where she later stayed on as a Printshop Associate. Stratton currently teaches upper school art at St. Albans School.
Visit
October 31–November 28, 2020
Studio 1469
1469 Harvard St NW
Washington, DC 20009
By appointment only
Programs
Artist Talk
Saturday, November 14th, 7pm
Info