ABOUT

Mad Montgomery is a visual artist who creates work that ties into their own experiences surrounding identity and gender. They combine use of still life, portraiture, and physical manipulation to investigate the social implications of their identity becoming a political statement. Mad strives for universal appeal, visuals that project personal stories and information to a larger audiencem. Political engagement is central to their body of work as well as the research process and protocol. Their photography references queer visual activism originally meant to garner support with the general public, and shines a light on many lesser known realities of living as gender queer person in the United States. Their images are tied into research focused on the history as well as contemporary impacts of identity in a political landscape. Their work is direct, allowing the viewer to realize the implications and intention of it with limited impact of external factors. Their art combines sizes of prints and printing on different materials like transparencies and wheat pasting final images to shape the reception of the work and the narrative overall that they strive to elucidate on.