Sharon Madanes is a painter and doctor who transforms banalities of hospital life into bold, highly saturated scenes.
Her paintings juxtapose the institutional setting of her work with the matters of life and death.
Sharon Madanes, Waiting Room with Leopard Shoes, 2022, Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in
Sharon Madanes, Awake all night, 2022, Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 in
Sharon Madanes
Workroom at Dusk, 2021
Oil on canvas
72 x 56 inches
"The medical field is a field where people become fragmented, where they become parts of the body, and it’s challenging to see the whole picture. That it can be a very myopic way of seeing, but at the same time, for a painter, that is the mystery—you pay attention to what’s left out. That’s the part that becomes the most dramatic."
Sharon Madanes
Enjoy Your Stay, 2021
Oil on canvas
24 x 20in
Sharon Madanes, What the Body Says, 2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
30 x 30in
"I’m interested in the everyday, but also what the implications of the everyday have to larger societal and philosophical questions."
Installation View, NADA New York 2022
Sharon Madanes, JDJ Tribeca 2022, Installation View
Sharon Madanes, JDJ Tribeca 2022, Installation View
"The juxtaposition between life and death and linoleum floor tiles—that fascinates me,"
Sharon Madanes in the studio, 2020.
Sharon Madanes
Sharon Madanes lives and works in New York. She completed her MFA in painting at Hunter College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Drawing Center and a fellow at Shandaken’s Paint School. Her work has most recently been exhibited through the Public Art Fund, The Drawing Center, Next to Nothing Gallery, DC Moore, Slag Gallery, and Underdonk in New York. She is a 2019 recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation emerging artist grant and is currently a psychiatry resident at NYU.
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