There's a Toddler in My Art Studio| Finding Space with Madeline Donahue, Painter and Sculptor
Atomic Moms #215: Painter and Sculptor Madeline Donahue
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#215: Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor MADELINE DONAHUE uses her work to celebrate the postpartum body and explore the overwhelming physical intimacy of early motherhood. In our conversation, this extraordinary artist and funny, dear friend shares how she carves out time and space to create, how she juggles her responsibilities as an artist and mother, and what it’s like to raise a kid with the boy she met when they were 12! Sign up for our newsletter below so you can be the first to know about our atomic moms x madeline donahue limited edition t-shirt collaboration! xx Ellie Knaus
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Special thanks to Owen O’Neill, our NYC sound engineer, and Jeremy Turner for our original theme composition.
#MOMBOMB
““Prior to becoming a mother, she might have chased a cricket for food, “hither and thither, a haphazard pattern,” attracting predators, according to one study. Even after catching the cricket, it might have clumsily slipped from her grasp. But as a lactating mom, her method is “more direct and lethal.” She captures the cricket in 70 seconds—four times faster than non-mom rats—and does not let it go. She does not have time to waste. Her brain’s motor and sensory systems have sharpened.”
LINKS
Madeline Donahue Paints the Joy and Absurdity of Motherhood - Elephant Journal
How Motherhood Affects Creativity - The Atlantic
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Mom - The Cut
How Motherhood Changes the Brain to Boost Creativity - Inc.com
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Documentary - HBO
GUEST BIO
Madeline Donahue is a painter and sculptor working in Brooklyn. She has exhibited with a variety of galleries including, The Hole, 601Artspace and Field Projects, in Manhattan; Underdonk, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, amd Spaceworks, in Brooklyn. She exhibited paintings in the recent show Making (It) Work and at Oliver Art Center at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA- “a group exhibition of artworks made by artists during their first few years of parenthood.” She will be included in an upcoming exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects and at the Every Woman Biennial (formerly the Whitney Houston Biennial), both in Manhattan. Madeline was an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY and will be a May resident at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. You can read about her work at Elephant Magazine online and see her work in print in the current issue, #15, of Ginger Zine. http://www.madelinedonahue.com
Special thanks to Owen O’Neill, our NYC sound engineer, and Jeremy Turner for our original theme composition.
Artist Madeline Donahue on Atomic Moms
