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Oct 5, 2022 · Donahue captures the minute yet momentous milliseconds that make up the experience of motherhood. Snapshots of the mundane and the grotesque, the horrible and the wonderful, all imbued with a clear sense of time. Here, a look at her new exhibition.
- Amil Niazi
- Columnist, The Cut
Oct 5, 2022 · The first Madeline Donahue piece I ever came across was a brightly hued painting of a mother wrapped around her two small kids, one child hanging across her back with his hand pressed tenderly on her face, the other cradled to her chest.
Oct 2, 2023 · Painter Madeline Donahue has long dealt with themes of family and intimacy in her work. In 2016, with the birth of her first child, she began focusing on motherhood. “I try to sit with feelings of shame, discomfort, and joy—all the experiences of being a mom,” she says.
Donahue utilizes personal experience to portray the wide-ranging facets of motherhood. She draws from contrasting moments of joy, absurdity, intimacy, and anxiety to illustrate the complex relationship between mother and child.
May 8, 2024 · “What Donahue manages to paint are the minute yet momentous milliseconds that make up the experience of motherhood. They are snapshots of the mundane and the grotesque, the horrible and the wonderful, all imbued with a clear sense of time, both the lack of it and how quickly it seems to go by.
Dec 5, 2018 · In Donahue’s paintings, recurrent scenes are familiar to me in my own experience of motherhood: a tangle of limbs, hair being tugged by tiny hands, a precarious balance between half-dressed and half-caressed.
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Mar 22, 2023 · From a car filled to the brim with toys, to a moment of after-shower peace interrupted by axe-throwing children—Madeline’s portrayal of motherhood via colored pencil, paint, and ceramics aims to capture the extreme highs and lows of day-to-day parenting.
