CSCA: Larne Abse Gogarty on Figuration, with Madelynn Green and Jenny Nachtigall

Larne Abse Gogarty is a writer and art historian from London. She is Head of History and Theory of Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She is the author of What We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy (Sternberg Press, 2023) and Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art (Brill, 2022) and has published in journals and magazines including Art Monthly, New Socialist, Tate Papers, Third Text, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. In 2020 she co-edited with Andrew Hemingway a special issue on “Keywords for Marxist Art History” of the journal Kunst und Politik.

Madelynn Green is an American artist based in London since 2017. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Since 2019, she has been a Lecturer in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her recent solo exhibitions include Birth of a Star (Almine Rech, Paris), Dolls (Almine Rech, Brussels), Heartland (Taymour Grahne, London) and Mirror Mirror (Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva). Madelynn's painting, drawing, and sculpture practice explores the figure, the relationship between painting and society, and the generative potential of material. Recent bodies of work have explored a broad range of representational subjects, including mannequins and beauty rituals, urban landscapes, outer space, mirrors, music, and crowd and family dynamics. She is driven by the desire to connect art to society and to make work that responds to the rhythms of the world.