Melissa Gordon
Subtitle: painting behind itself
By: editor, Oliver Zybok, Roos Gortzak ; translations, Michael Scuffil, Elisabeth Winkelmann
Contributors: Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck; De Vleeshal (Middelburg, Netherlands)
Publisher: Revolver Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9783957633569
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; American Painting
Other titles: Painting behind itself
Description: Melissa Gordon?s practice is centred upon an ongoing investigation into the politics of abstraction and the intimacies within artistic processes. In her work as a painter, printmaker and editor Gordon often draws on source materials she considers ?by-products? of history?from the modernist grid structure to the traces of painterly residue found in her artist studio?magnifying pictorial elements, emphasising patterns, and distorting information to uncover hidden structures. In doing so, Gordon?s works make reference to both the gestural traditions of abstract expressionism and the mechanical procedures of reproducibility distinctive to modernism.00Exhibition: Kunstverein Lübeck, Germany (08.05. - 26.06.2016) / De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands (10.04. - 19.06.2016).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Lübeck, May 8-June 26, 2016; and Vleeshal, Middelburg, April 10-June 19, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128).

Text in English and German.