Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016 | Page 60

Nancy
Mladenoff
Professor
UW–Madison Department of Art,
since 1999
Painting and Drawing

44 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty

1987 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1982 Bachelor of Science, UW–Madison
Recent achievements
2015 Mother Popcorn, group show, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2015 The Salon Show, group show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee
2015 Wildlife Biennial XVII, group show, Miller Art Museum,
Sturgeon Bay, WI
2014 Girl Bands, solo show, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
2014 Nancy Mladenoff—“More Ladies,” solo show, Tory Folliard
Gallery, Milwaukee
2014 Figuring It Out, group show, Lawton Gallery, University of
Wisconsin–Green Bay
2014 Hidden Truths, the Mind Unraveled, group show, 3rd Annual
Exhibition & Benefit for the Epilepsy Project, DAX Gallery,
Costa Mesa, CA
2014 Sconnies, group show with accompanying catalogue, Prairie
Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA
2013 Wisconsin Triennial, group show, Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2013 Affordable Art, group show, SPACEWomb Gallery, Long Island
City, NY

Artist’s statement
In the past three years I have been working on a series about the lives
of women. These include notable women of historical significance:
scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, performing artists, and sports
figures, as well as those who were unrecognized or completely anonymous. These portrait-like paintings on paper mine various graphic
traditions, such as frakturs and samplers (both early forms of American folk art), early photography, collage, printed textiles, and visual
storytelling. My interest is less in documentation of these women in
a realistic sense than in conveying their iconic significance through an
imaginative visual rendition.
In addition, I have been working on a series about girl bands. My
fascination with this musical subculture derives from their antiaesthetic rebellious spirit and passion, which, in the performative
moment, surfaces as a microcosm of radical change.
Work in the show
Nancy Mladenoff (American, b. 1957)
Not available at press time.