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 Painting Behind Itself, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf. Routine Pleasures,
Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL). Derivative Value, Overbeck-Gesellschaft,
Lübeck (DE). Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK). 2015 WE
(Not I), Artists Space, New York, NY (US). 2014 Mimetic
Pleasures, Boesky East, New York. ZOOOOOM, Juliette Jongma,
Amsterdam (NL). 2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol
(UK).
Group
exhibitions
2016 Modern Talk, Deweer Gallery, Otegem (BE). 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. 2012 Parallax Curtain,
S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK). Art & Press, ZKM | Center for Art and
Media, Karlsruhe (DE), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
Publications
Roos Gortzak, Oliver Zybok (eds.), Painting
Behind Itself, Revolver Press, Berlin 2016.
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.