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Melissa Gordon 1981
Vit à Brussel. Travaille dans Brussel.
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Galerie Stigter Van Doesburg
American and British artist Melissa Gordon (b. 1981, Cambridge, USA) makes larger than scale paintings with a special focus on body, consumption, gender, feminism and the act of painting. The works bear an assembly of Gordon’s characteristic 'gestures' - varying from hanging ready-mades, photos and expressive traces of thick paint, to silkscreen prints of garments, words or digital drawings. All gestures are applied on a grid, an imaginary space referring to the abstraction of scale (and the possibility of being ‘hung on’). With a playful and critical touch, the artist questions the value of gestures in all its liquidity and multitude of layers - oscillating between figuration and abstraction, surface and depth, the visible and the hidden, the réal reality and the pictorial world, presentation and representation.
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Melissa Gordon (b.1981, Cambridge, USA) is an artist, curator, and writer, whose practice is concerned with the body, gesture, and painting, through the lens of feminism. Liquid Gestures is a solo exhibition featuring large-scale paintings that further her examination of modern art histories, ideas of authorship, and the appropriation of certain ‘gestures’.
In recent works, a grid, mesh, or chainlink fence, is the first image silk screened directly onto the canvas, creating a framework that plays host to an array of intriguing references. Photographs and texts relating to her research are then painted or printed onto the surface, while outlines and silhouettes of painting tools, clothing, and domestic objects slip over and under colourful swathes of paint. Traversing between figuration and abstraction, these brushstrokes and pools of colour have been re-painted and reproduced from the incidental mark-making on Gordon’s studio wall with an almost forensic examination of gesture.
Gordon invites us to consider the significance and influence of artists such as Janet Sobel in relation to the drip painting and Dada poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in relation to the readymade. Their contributions to art history have been eclipsed in a culture of gender inequality that is noticeably persistent even today.
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Solo Exhibitions
2021 Liquid Gestures, Towner Gallery, UK (upcoming)
Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL (upcoming)
2020 Female Readymades, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Modelling a Painting: an accumulation of information on liquids and gestures in time, Manifold Books, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Shits and Giggles, Deweer Gallery, Belgium
2018 The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Collision, The Swiss Church, London, UK
2016 Painting Behind Itself, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
The Gesture is a Joke, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem, BE
Derivative Value, Kunstverein Luebeck, DE
Routine Pleasures, The Vleeshal, Middleburg, NL
Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2014 Mimetic Pleasures, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA *
Confusion Condition, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery, BE (with “Boomerang”, Richard Serra)
ZOOOOM, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol, UK *
Blow Up Modernists, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
2012 Structures for Viewing, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY
2010 Collisions, (with Jessica Wiesner), Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam NL
2009 A Lonely Crowd, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Two-Dimensional Men, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
2008 Dirty Tricks of an Age of Moral Turpitude, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
War of the Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2007 ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, NL*
Exquisite Corpse, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
2006 The Only Man in There, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, DE *
Genealogies Part II, Preview Art Fair, with Cosar HMT, Berlin, DE *
Genealogies Part I, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
2005 What you can't see could kill you, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions
2021 24/7 Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Barbara Seiler Gallery (Upcoming)
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium (upcoming)
Grensverkenners - Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 150 jaar, Het Palais, Amsterdam, NL (upcoming)
Coral What, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE (upcoming)
2020 Binnenkammers: Biennial van der Schilderkunst, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, BE
Heavy Metal Parking Lot, GARAGE, Rotterdam, NL
2019 The Embarrassment of SUCKCESS, for the Cloud, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Le Petit Cercle Bruxellois, Institute de Carton, Brussels, BE
Forty Years, Deweer Gallery, BE
2018 This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Merry-Go-Round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Out of Time, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2017 Something Stronger Than Me, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo Kunsthal, Oslo, NO
REGROUPING, Lux, London, UK
Salon Hang, The Kunstverein Amsterdam, NL
Public View, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2016 Reading Room, Montague Space, London, UK
Opening, Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, DE
Modern Talk, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2015 WE (Not I), Raven Row, South London Gallery, London
WE (Not I), Artists Space, NY
Salon Hang, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NL
Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amstrdam
As it seems, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
2014 During the exhibition the studio will be close, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Wiels
Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, BE
Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Roger Raveelmuseum, Mechelen and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Structures for Viewing, Deweer Gallery, BE
2013 HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein, with Rita McBride and Marlene Dumas, DE
Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Massimo Deluca, Venice, IT *
15 for 50, Art on the Underground, London UK
And Beyond Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, NY *
2012 Parallax Curtain, S1, Sheffield, UK
Art & Press, Zentrum for Kunst und Media, Karlsruhe, DE
Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Ottigem, Belgium, BE *
Kunstverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf, DE
Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin , DE*
Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, Los Angeles, USA
No Comment, LABOUR launch and performance, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2011 Future Forward, The Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam, NL
Theatre of Pain, Performance, Ancient & Modern, London UK
5x5, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, ES*
Ever Changing Moods, Performance, Autoitalia, London UK
Madame Reaslism, curated by Lisette Smits, Marres Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL
Specific Collisions, Telephone Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Group Velocity , Märkisches Museum Witten, DE
2010 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprijs, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE*
Philara Project Space, Dusseldorf, DE
Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL*
Lush Life, Scaramouche Gallery, New York, USA
Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston, USA
Paying A Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CN, USA*
AIR Biennale, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN*
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London UK*
2009 Your Gold Teeth, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, USA
Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, BE
Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
All Cretans Are Liars, Said the Cretan, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam NL
Mental Puberty, STORE Gallery, London, UK
Rebell, Art and Feminsm 1969-2009, MMKA, Arnhem, NL
True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, DE
PRIVAT, Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, DE*
I Love the BeNELux, Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Prague Triennale, National Gallery, Prague, CZ
Something and Something Else, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, NL
DUMA, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, BE
Black Bile, Red Humour, b05 Art and Design Center, Montebaur, DE*
Early Bird, Kunstverein Dorsten, DE
2007 Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
The Painted Object, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
Dealing with Reality, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL
Showroom, Mai 36, Zürich, CH
Lost and Found, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE *
The Collector’s Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, DE
2006 Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Pictorial Research, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Wild At Heart, Kunst RAI, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL *
2005 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, NL *
EVENTS/PERFORMANCES:
2021
Look Who’s Talking, WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Launch of ‘The Embarassment of SUCKCESS’ with Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Kunstinstituut Melly, with Printed Matter Book Fair
Launch of ‘A Living Archive’: a ten-year archive of feminist and collaborative practice online, sponsored by the Dorothea Niemeijer Fonds
2020
Launch of ‘Funny Peculiar’ at Museum Dhont Dhaenens
Artist Talk at Frans Masereel Centrum
Artist Talk at Staedelschule Artist Talk, Frankfurt, DE
2019
The Embarrassment of SUCKCESS, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Funny Peculiar: a symposium exploring contemporary ideas in painting, University of Manchester
Talk at Le Petite Cercle Bruxellois, Institute de Carton, Brussels
Artist Talk KASK School of Fine Art, Ghent, BE
2018
Launch of Artist Section, Journal of Contemporary Painting, London
The Gesture is a Liquid, Dorich House Museum, London
Launch “Conversations”, Atelier Gordon Evans, Brussels
Gesture and Event, WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Symposium on Gesture
Roundtable discussion with Eileen Quinlan and Lisa Oppenheim, for “The Mechanics of Fluids”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2017
“Female Genius Nightclub”, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
“Speculative Value”, Panel Discussion Alison Jacques Gallery, London
“Female Genius: Vital Signs”, Reading Kunstverein Amsterdam
Salzburg Summer Academy Artist Talk
2016
“Luxury Goods”, Reading, Montague Space, London, UK
“Luxury Goods”, Reading and Book Launch, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Paul Mellon Center, London, Keynote Speaker at “Making Women’s Art Matter”
Salzberg Summer Academy Artist Talk
2015
Presence and Absence, WE (Not I) Artists Space, NY, USA
WE (Not I) South London Gallery, Flat Time House and Raven Row, London UK
2014
Tenderbooks: Launch of Peter Dreher with Lynne Tillman, Michael Archer, David Batchelor and Antony Spira
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Liquid Gestures, Towner Gallery, UK (upcoming)
Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL (upcoming)
2020 Female Readymades, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Modelling a Painting: an accumulation of information on liquids and gestures in time, Manifold Books, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Shits and Giggles, Deweer Gallery, Belgium
2018 The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Collision, The Swiss Church, London, UK
2016 Painting Behind Itself, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
The Gesture is a Joke, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem, BE
Derivative Value, Kunstverein Luebeck, DE
Routine Pleasures, The Vleeshal, Middleburg, NL
Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2014 Mimetic Pleasures, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA *
Confusion Condition, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery, BE (with “Boomerang”, Richard Serra)
ZOOOOM, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol, UK *
Blow Up Modernists, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
2012 Structures for Viewing, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY
2010 Collisions, (with Jessica Wiesner), Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam NL
2009 A Lonely Crowd, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Two-Dimensional Men, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
2008 Dirty Tricks of an Age of Moral Turpitude, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
War of the Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2007 ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, NL*
Exquisite Corpse, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
2006 The Only Man in There, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, DE *
Genealogies Part II, Preview Art Fair, with Cosar HMT, Berlin, DE *
Genealogies Part I, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
2005 What you can't see could kill you, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions
2021 24/7 Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Barbara Seiler Gallery (Upcoming)
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium (upcoming)
Grensverkenners - Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 150 jaar, Het Palais, Amsterdam, NL (upcoming)
Coral What, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE (upcoming)
2020 Binnenkammers: Biennial van der Schilderkunst, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, BE
Heavy Metal Parking Lot, GARAGE, Rotterdam, NL
2019 The Embarrassment of SUCKCESS, for the Cloud, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Le Petit Cercle Bruxellois, Institute de Carton, Brussels, BE
Forty Years, Deweer Gallery, BE
2018 This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Merry-Go-Round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Out of Time, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2017 Something Stronger Than Me, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo Kunsthal, Oslo, NO
REGROUPING, Lux, London, UK
Salon Hang, The Kunstverein Amsterdam, NL
Public View, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2016 Reading Room, Montague Space, London, UK
Opening, Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, DE
Modern Talk, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2015 WE (Not I), Raven Row, South London Gallery, London
WE (Not I), Artists Space, NY
Salon Hang, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NL
Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amstrdam
As it seems, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
2014 During the exhibition the studio will be close, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Wiels
Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, BE
Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Roger Raveelmuseum, Mechelen and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Structures for Viewing, Deweer Gallery, BE
2013 HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein, with Rita McBride and Marlene Dumas, DE
Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Massimo Deluca, Venice, IT *
15 for 50, Art on the Underground, London UK
And Beyond Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, NY *
2012 Parallax Curtain, S1, Sheffield, UK
Art & Press, Zentrum for Kunst und Media, Karlsruhe, DE
Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Ottigem, Belgium, BE *
Kunstverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf, DE
Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin , DE*
Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, Los Angeles, USA
No Comment, LABOUR launch and performance, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2011 Future Forward, The Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam, NL
Theatre of Pain, Performance, Ancient & Modern, London UK
5x5, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, ES*
Ever Changing Moods, Performance, Autoitalia, London UK
Madame Reaslism, curated by Lisette Smits, Marres Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL
Specific Collisions, Telephone Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Group Velocity , Märkisches Museum Witten, DE
2010 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprijs, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE*
Philara Project Space, Dusseldorf, DE
Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL*
Lush Life, Scaramouche Gallery, New York, USA
Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston, USA
Paying A Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CN, USA*
AIR Biennale, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN*
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London UK*
2009 Your Gold Teeth, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, USA
Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, BE
Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
All Cretans Are Liars, Said the Cretan, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam NL
Mental Puberty, STORE Gallery, London, UK
Rebell, Art and Feminsm 1969-2009, MMKA, Arnhem, NL
True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, DE
PRIVAT, Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, DE*
I Love the BeNELux, Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Prague Triennale, National Gallery, Prague, CZ
Something and Something Else, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, NL
DUMA, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, BE
Black Bile, Red Humour, b05 Art and Design Center, Montebaur, DE*
Early Bird, Kunstverein Dorsten, DE
2007 Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
The Painted Object, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
Dealing with Reality, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL
Showroom, Mai 36, Zürich, CH
Lost and Found, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE *
The Collector’s Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, DE
2006 Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Pictorial Research, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Wild At Heart, Kunst RAI, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL *
2005 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, NL *
EVENTS/PERFORMANCES:
2021
Look Who’s Talking, WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Launch of ‘The Embarassment of SUCKCESS’ with Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Kunstinstituut Melly, with Printed Matter Book Fair
Launch of ‘A Living Archive’: a ten-year archive of feminist and collaborative practice online, sponsored by the Dorothea Niemeijer Fonds
2020
Launch of ‘Funny Peculiar’ at Museum Dhont Dhaenens
Artist Talk at Frans Masereel Centrum
Artist Talk at Staedelschule Artist Talk, Frankfurt, DE
2019
The Embarrassment of SUCKCESS, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Funny Peculiar: a symposium exploring contemporary ideas in painting, University of Manchester
Talk at Le Petite Cercle Bruxellois, Institute de Carton, Brussels
Artist Talk KASK School of Fine Art, Ghent, BE
2018
Launch of Artist Section, Journal of Contemporary Painting, London
The Gesture is a Liquid, Dorich House Museum, London
Launch “Conversations”, Atelier Gordon Evans, Brussels
Gesture and Event, WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Symposium on Gesture
Roundtable discussion with Eileen Quinlan and Lisa Oppenheim, for “The Mechanics of Fluids”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2017
“Female Genius Nightclub”, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
“Speculative Value”, Panel Discussion Alison Jacques Gallery, London
“Female Genius: Vital Signs”, Reading Kunstverein Amsterdam
Salzburg Summer Academy Artist Talk
2016
“Luxury Goods”, Reading, Montague Space, London, UK
“Luxury Goods”, Reading and Book Launch, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Paul Mellon Center, London, Keynote Speaker at “Making Women’s Art Matter”
Salzberg Summer Academy Artist Talk
2015
Presence and Absence, WE (Not I) Artists Space, NY, USA
WE (Not I) South London Gallery, Flat Time House and Raven Row, London UK
2014
Tenderbooks: Launch of Peter Dreher with Lynne Tillman, Michael Archer, David Batchelor and Antony Spira
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