Women-Led Galleries Now

Madelyn Jordon Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of notable female artists of our program as part of Artsy’s online exclusive ‘Women-Led Galleries Now’ showcase.

As a female-owned gallery with more than two decades of experience, we are committed to championing women artists, past and present. Highlighting both long-established careers and artists experiencing rising prominence, we are delighted to present five select artists:

Amy Feigley-Lee is a Detroit-based contemporary artist at a pivotal moment in her career. Holding a BFA and MFA in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, she discovered her calling as an artist early in life, following a creative path through sculpture from a young age. A mother of two young children, Feigley-Lee’s most recent explorations began in her own home, where casual experiments cutting and weaving antique wallpaper organically evolved into the dynamic wall-based sculptures that define her current work. These wall sculptures merge structural forms with intricately layered collage, realized through a meticulous process of manipulating and layering vintage wallpaper.

Amy Feigley-Lee’s practice recontextualizes the rigid, masculine legacy of Minimalism by fracturing it through the lens of the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) movement. While her work adopts the geometric precision and physical presence of Minimalist sculpture, she subverts its "purity" and industrial coldness by integrating elements of domesticity and craft.
Feigley-Lee’s practice is unique, embodying reaching new audiences as her distinctive visual language continues to gain momentum, recently the subject of a feature article in Colossal Magazine, with growing recognition across numerous private collections.

Yangyang Pan is attracting growing interest from collectors and institutions worldwide. With a BFA and MFA from China's Sichuan Fine Art Institute, she developed her artistic foundation through traditional Chinese training. Combining this with the gestural freedom of Abstract Expressionism she discovered after emigrating to the West, Pan's practice merges Eastern and Western sensibilities to create expressive, nature-driven oil paintings of striking emotional depth and beauty.
Since immigrating to Canada in 2006, Pan has established a strong presence in North America. Her work is held in numerous private, public, and corporate collections, and is included in museum collections in Canada and the US. She completed a large-scale commission with Apple Inc., installing her work around the façade of a new Apple Store in Chongqing, China.
Pan continues to expand her reach, bringing her dynamic abstractions to new audiences and further establishing her impact on the contemporary art scene.

Susan Wides is an American artist working in photography, moving image, and installation whose immersive, abstract works explore an embodied perception in the natural world and the urban environment.
Capturing the subtle interplay between observer and environment on site in a single exposure, her images use variations in focal depth to convey presence, impermanence, and energy. Her work has been included in over one hundred exhibitions internationally.

Wides’s work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Galerie Urbi et Orbi (France), and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum; the Norton Museum of Art; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center; the Center for Creative Photography (AZ); the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the International Center of Photography, NY; the Museum of the City of New York; and la Bibliothèque nationale de France, among others. Wides's public art practice engages the architectural scale and communal function of civic spaces.

While her practice retains strong visibility in New York, Wides's work deserves more attention. This is a pivotal moment to introduce Wides to new audiences, inviting discovery and recognition beyond her established sphere.

Marylyn Dintenfass is a celebrated American artist whose multidisciplinary practice in painting, printmaking, and large-scale installation spans a 5 decade career of remarkable influence. Her densely layered works fuse archetypal forms that oscillate between the cellular and the cosmic, blending Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art with saturated color, gestural intensity, and a dynamic balance of structure and spontaneity.

Widely honored, Dintenfass has received the Silver Medal at the First International, Mino, Japan, The Ravenna Prize at the 45th Faenza International in Italy, and was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame in 2023. Her work has been exhibited extensively and is held in major public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.

With a career that continues to unfold, Dintenfass remains actively engaged in mining new territory, sustaining a vital presence in contemporary discourse while offering a body of work that is both historically significant and ripe for renewed recognition by today’s audiences and the next generation of collectors.

Joyce Barker-Schwartz, born and raised in Philadelphia, is a multi-media artist best recognized for her contributions to fiber arts. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, she is celebrated for her innovative integration of hand-painted canvases that are cut and meticulously hand-woven into layered compositions. This approach creates a rich interplay of texture, color, and form, transforming a once-niche medium with striking depth and conceptual sophistication.

With a career spanning more than three decades, Barker-Schwartz is widely recognized within her field and is extending her reach to the mainstream art gallery audience. Her work has been exhibited across prominent spaces including the American Craft Museum in New York and Zenith Gallery in Washington, D.C. Currently, her innovative practice calls for discovery by a wider audience, bringing her transformative art to collectors and viewers beyond its traditional sphere.