Sharon Madanes (b. 1985, Chicago, IL, lives and works in New York, NY) received a BA from Yale University, New Haven, an MFA from Hunter College, New York, attended medical school at Columbia University, New York and completed her medical training in psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Madanes has received several awards and residencies, including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
the Shandaken Paint School and the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. Her work
has been exhibited at JDJ, Asya Geisberg, Perrotin, Paris, Taymour Grahne, London, The
Drawing Center, New York and Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, among others.
Helmet Explanation:
I started painting about handwashing in medical school, where the ritual demarcates chapters in one’s day. A decade later, I continue making these paintings because I am fascinated by how handwashing juxtaposes the banal and the symbolic. I imagine handwashing as a ritual of cleansing, of repair, of acknowledging the past and present and making oneself ready for the future; on a helmet, something that protects the brain or mind, a handwashing painting feels
like an apt metaphor for the mental healthcare the helmet’s proceeds will support.
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