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Exhibitions
The View from Inside
Melissa Gordon – with Gabriele Beveridge, Christiane Blattmann, Alice Channer, Erika Hock, Asia Zielińska
Info: Melissa Gordon is a painter and her material is often the politically pointed act of engaging with feminist histories and communities. In her sixth exhibition with COSAR, she presents her most recent series of paintings The View from Inside within a collaborative display of her artistic peers. Each of Gordon’s paintings emerges from a kinship: she photographs the open windows of female artists during studio visits. These windows then become the space for painterly abstractions. Interwoven between her paintings, Gordon has curated an exhibition of the works of the artists through whose eyes we are looking. The windows-as-frames of the studios are printed with a silkscreen dot, and surround a painterly space of real and unlanguaged material, which mirrors or runs parallel to a real conversation between artists. Gordon’s paintings point to the history of windows-in-painting as the portal to the flat-ness, non-illusion of painting. A perspectival oscillation between fictional and real painterly space, which is mirrored in the sculptural objects around them, whose shadows are found in the studio photos. (…)
Events
The View from Inside
Melissa Gordon – with Gabriele Beveridge, Christiane Blattmann, Alice Channer, Erika Hock, Asia Zielińska
Info: Melissa Gordon is a painter and her material is often the politically pointed act of engaging with feminist histories and communities. In her sixth exhibition with COSAR, she presents her most recent series of paintings The View from Inside within a collaborative display of her artistic peers. Each of Gordon’s paintings emerges from a kinship: she photographs the open windows of female artists during studio visits. These windows then become the space for painterly abstractions. Interwoven between her paintings, Gordon has curated an exhibition of the works of the artists through whose eyes we are looking. The windows-as-frames of the studios are printed with a silkscreen dot, and surround a painterly space of real and unlanguaged material, which mirrors or runs parallel to a real conversation between artists. Gordon’s paintings point to the history of windows-in-painting as the portal to the flat-ness, non-illusion of painting. A perspectival oscillation between fictional and real painterly space, which is mirrored in the sculptural objects around them, whose shadows are found in the studio photos. (…)
