Uffner & Liu is pleased to announce the representation Hudson-based artist Reginald Madison (b. 1941, Chicago, IL) following the artist's debut solo exhibition in New York at the gallery last year.
Born in 1941 in Chicago, Madison came to prominence in the emergent art scene of the Black Arts Movement (1965 – 1975). His story is one of self-determination and relentless passion, and at 84 years old is still clear-eyed and zealous about what’s to come. He is fully self-taught, having discovered a discarded box of paints as a teenager and started putting them to use. He later worked at the US Steel Southworks, taking on extra shifts to save up money to take his young family to Europe for a year, where he visited the museums of Paris, Munich, and Madrid. In 1968 he had his first public showing of his artwork, at "Art & Soul" in Chicago, where he won third place in a competition juried by artist Richard Hunt and curator Jan van der Marck, founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. This formative exhibition experience gave him the confidence to further pursue his artmaking, and he traveled east to New York City and then western Massachusetts, before finally being drawn to Hudson, where he currently lives and works.
Uffner & Liu will present works by Reginald Madison at our Art Basel Miami Beach booth this December.
Reginald Madison is co-represented by SEPTEMBER Gallery in Hudson, New York.
