Madison Nelson


Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Fiber and Material Studies

Vibrating between image and object, my studio practice centers on material manipulation and the semiotics of everyday textiles. Fascinated with hybridity and the brain’s reward system, I marry repetition and overstimulation by rerendering and reconstructing cloth. I transform photo montages into fiber assemblages by dissecting their forms and material cultures. Working to elevate the domestic from personal to public, I collect, document, reproduce, and distort images and objects from my familial archive. Hyper-femininity and contemporary craft discourse inform my manipulation of self-fashioned and inherited textiles. I pair traditional surface design techniques, including dyeing and screen printing, with digitally manipulated imagery.