Event overview
Organised by the Department of Art, artist Melissa Gordon will speak on her recent work.
Melissa Gordon is interested in how historic images and narratives are used and represented, and in the assumptions about them that exist and continue to evolve. Gordon’s work is focused on the cyclical relationship between surface and reproduction, representation and abstraction and seeing and reading, and is often focused on by-products: of history, of medium and of making. Often utilizing investigative gestures such as enlarging details that reveal hidden structures, zooming in on patterns of reproductive processes, or obscuring information with abstract systems, her work moves between the mediums of printmaking, painting and installation, using perspective in a literal and figurative manner to explore ways in which imagery is perceived and reproduced.
Melissa Gordon, born 1981, Boston, USA; lives and works in London, studied at Rhode Island School of Design, Cooper Union in New York and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include Blow Up Modernists, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, 2013; the artist-curated Specific Collisions, 2013; and solo show Structures for Viewing, 2012, both at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY; Parallax Curtain, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, 2012, and Art & Press, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2012. Gordon co-edits LABOUR, a publication on art and work with a feminist perspective with Marina Vishmidt, and is currently publishing the second edition PERSONA. She has an upcoming exhibition at Spike Island, Bristol, entitled Material Evidence.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 May 2013 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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