Melissa Gordon

Melissa Gordon, born in Boston (US) in 1981, lives and works in London. She is a painter, printmaker and editor, whose work encompasses painted and silkscreened objects, installations, performances and feminist magazines. In painting and silkscreen series that play with forms of abstraction, by mimicking residual marks on studio surfaces or forensically investigating ageing male modernist paintings, Gordon’s work turns the question of abstraction and gesture on its head. Her installations and architectural interventions in exhibitions are concerned with the “staging” of objects. Gordon is the editor of an ongoing series of feminist publications and events. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London.

Solo exhibitions
2016 Derivative Value, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (DE). Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK). 2015 WE (Not I), Artists Space, New York (US). 2014 Mimetic Pleasures, Boesky East, New York (US). ZOOOOOM, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam (NL). 2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol (UK). Blow Up Modernists, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf (DE).

Group exhibitions
2014 During the exhibition, the studio will be close, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels. 2013 HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein (DE). Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky, New York (US). 2012 Parallax Curtain, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK). Art & Press, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (DE); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.

Publications
Lorenzo Benedetti, Caroline Dumalin (eds.), During the exhibition, the studio will be close, Motto Books, Berlin 2014.
Marie-Anne McQuay (ed.), Material Evidence, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2014.
Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt (eds.), PERSONA, Archive Books, Berlin 2013.
Will Holder and Melissa Gordon (eds.), Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 2013.

• Web:
  www.melissagordon.info
  www.marianneboeskygallery.com
  www.juliettejongma.com