Monika Stockton Maddux
“Where It Hurts”
Residency: February 10 - 24
exhibition: February 24 - March 28
“A recurring theme is my obsession. I have been unable to conceive and deliver a baby girl and a profound obsession has developed and festered.”
Through large-scale and immersive installations Monika Stockton Maddux highlights the small moments and experiences of maternity that are often not talked about. Her intimate and traumatic experience with miscarriage appears throughout her work in the color pink, vacillating between sweet baby dresses and feminine bathrooms to dark pools of blood.
“The Pink is me: my life, my loss, my experience.”
Her explorations into personal histories become a larger conversation about our own cultural beliefs and expectations surrounding motherhood and the maternal. She ponders whether her deep longing for a daughter stems from biological desire or cultural expectations.
Programs
open studio at the art center
Come say Hi to Monika and ask her about her installation at the Salina Art Center!
February 18 - 20, 1 - 4 PM each day
Artist Talk
Facebook Live and Zoom
Wednesday, February 24, 12 - 1 PM
Lunch and Learn
Facebook Live and Zoom
Wednesday, March 17, 12 - 1 PM
“Dining On The Wreckage, Without Remorse” Formal Dining Ballroom Installation in MONIKAHOUSE | 2019 | Sculpture by Monika Stockton Maddux, Photo by Lilly Guillen
Monika Stockton Maddux is a visionary and an artist. She was born on May 5, 1979, in Wichita, Kansas. She is the daughter of two entrepreneurs: Joseph Stockton, a brick and stonemason, and Katrina Stockton, a tailor. Monika Maddux graduated from Wichita State University with a BFA in Ceramics in 2004. After graduation, she built a workshop, opened a gallery, got married, had kids, and started a business with her husband. In 2019, Maddux completed her MFA with an emphasis in Sculpture from Wichita State University. Her Thesis Exhibition was MONIKAHOUSE, the transformation of a Victorian home into Monika's Life-Size Dollhouse. She lives in Wichita with her husband, artist W. Jarrod Maddux and their sons. They run No Craft Left Behind, an artist's resource, and founded Creativity Preservation Society, a nonprofit that restores historical homes while hosting Master Builder Artist residencies.
This exhibition is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Salina Art Center Endowment Foundation, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Salina Downtown, a Lighthouse Property, and Bennington State Bank.