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MADELEINE HERMANN was born and bred in the northern Midwest, but has called New York home since she was 14. Her artistic practice has an unfixed quality to it, as many things often do when you’re 23. Currently, her work is centered on what it means to be religious yet lack faith, using oil paint to abstract the so-called “divine light” that permeates holy spaces through stained glass. A woman of many interests, she has also been known to depict stray cats, the lore surrounding the Sicilian Mafia, and the detritus of day-to-day life, employing graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, and oil pastel. An emerging curator, her approach to the process is intuitive and kinesthetic.
Madeleine graduated from Barnard College magna cum laude in 2023, and studied Art History with a Visual Arts Concentration and Italian. This autumn, she’ll begin her MA in Art History at Hunter College, pursuing an Advanced Curatorial certificate. She plans to study American women Surrealists, augmenting her research practice by documenting it through experimental curatorial projects
She currently resides in Brooklyn.
MADELEINE HERMANN was born and bred in the northern Midwest, but has called New York home since she was 14. Her artistic practice has an unfixed quality to it, as many things often do when you’re 23. Currently, her work is centered on what it means to be religious yet lack faith, using oil paint to abstract the so-called “divine light” that permeates holy spaces through stained glass. A woman of many interests, she has also been known to depict stray cats, the lore surrounding the Sicilian Mafia, and the detritus of day-to-day life, employing graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, and oil pastel. An emerging curator, her approach to the process is intuitive and kinesthetic.
Madeleine graduated from Barnard College magna cum laude in 2023, and studied Art History with a Visual Arts Concentration and Italian. This autumn, she’ll begin her MA in Art History at Hunter College, pursuing an Advanced Curatorial certificate. She plans to study American women Surrealists, augmenting her research practice by documenting it through experimental curatorial projects
She currently resides in Brooklyn.