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BIOMadeline Jennings McMahan is an artist, a curator, a woman, and a mother. An interdisciplinary painter, Madeline’s practice is characterized by explorations into print-media and photography. Her work has been selected for national and international juried shows, including the 5x5x5 Miniature Works Exhibition in Alexandria, Louisiana, and the 2021 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Her work is in the permanent collections of Arkansas State University and the Arkansas Arts Council.

Madeline received her BFA in Studio Art from Arkansas State University in 2019 and her MFA from the University of Mississippi in 2022. In spring 2025, she was invited to be an Artist Leadership Fellow with the Mid-America Arts Alliance in preparation for service as a peer facilitator with M-AAA.

Madeline is currently the assistant director and curator at Bradbury Art Museum, located on campus at Arkansas State University. She lives in Northeast Arkansas with her husband and children.

STATEMENT
Blending painting and drawing with craft and photography, I make interdisciplinary paintings that draw from my personal meditations on time, place, and memory––investigated through the lens of my identity as a woman and a mother. I capitalize on the tension between abstraction and representation by working on top of photographic prints, overlaying translucent materials, collaging, or utilizing the inherent imperfections of image transfer processes. Layering or distorting recognizable imagery is a means of exploring the liminal or the “in-between:” the sky is earthly and heavenly, the highway is a place and a non-place, the photograph represents a reality but is not reality.

My work is for other wayfarers struggling against the pressure to walk faster, think faster, and do faster. It is made for you, so you can rest easy in the knowledge that someone has blessed your desire to stop and breathe.