Madelynn Austin.
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Madelynn Austin is an interdisciplinary artist that examines the use and limits of cosmetics and beauty as well as the complexity of human resilience through the lens of legacy, environment, disability, and emotional intelligence. Her conceptual visual works are made primarily with expired cosmetics, florals, and found objects to expand abstraction through painting, installation, and sculpture. Madelynn chose to her ability to recognize niche intersections as opportunity to bridge the gap created between domestic arts and fine art in modern society.
She writes, speaks, listens, and makes about beauty, sustainability, the role of makeup in culture, as well as the ethical and social responsibility of the cosmetics industry.
Madelynn holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Illinois State University and a master’s in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a merit scholar.
She lives and works in the in-between of Chicago and Milwaukee.