About
Madylan Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Pennsylvania.
In spring of 2023 they graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. in Studio Arts with highest distinction, and with a minor in Psychology. Their work has 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 they were an invited speaker. They were the recipient of the Elizabeth M. Anderson Award in 2023 for their research and production in the Studio Arts 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. Poems accompany each piece, providing further context and weaving together threads of connection. Through manipulation of elements such as materiality or scale, objects become personified through their flaws and non-functionality. And through the separation and absurd physicalization of feelings, there is catharsis.