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"BARB MADSEN received her MFA from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and is associate professor of printmaking at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her artwork has been exhibited in solo and juried exhibitions in fifteen countries in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. In 2005, Madsen’s work was presented in Pressing Images/Pressing Issues at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, along with prints by Richard Mock, William Wiley and Enrique Chagoya, and her Eyewitness photogravures were selected by Kiki Smith for the New Prints 2005 exhibition at the International Print Center in New York.
After September 11, 2001, Madsen created two public art projects with the billboards Eye 4 Eye = Blind in Jersey City and Revenge Never Ends in Newark, New Jersey. In the spring of 2005, she produced three banners in the metropolitan Washington, D. C. area: Oh! at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Fear and Paranoia Win at Studio 1515 on 14th Street; and Who Decides Our Future at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Springs, Maryland."