Madelyn Robertson is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Washington DC, and a current MFA student at the George Washington University. She grew up all over the United States as a child and lived in Wiesbaden, Germany for her adolescence. Her ongoing body of work, Feminine Transgressions, is an exploration of what is lost to women living under a patriarchal structure. She is interested in the emotional relationship between gender and the self, and how individual stories based in the experience of misogyny come together to create a terrifying whole.

Her work uses Kitsch and camp materials to collage the overwhelming gaze of men in various forms of media and real life. Distracting forms and searching eyes show the patriarchal system that exists on every surface of our world. The male gaze is oppressive and ubiquitous, and inescapable. She paints about the unwritten rules that form as a result of the male gaze, that guide women’s lives, and the inner turmoil that’s created by the society that’s been enforcing them since the dawn of time.