MELISSA GORDON

Melissa Gordon is a painter, printmaker and editor, whose work encompasses painted and silkscreened objects, installations, performances and feminist magazines. In her conceptual paintings, Melissa Gordon creates fascinating connections between the history, the political dimension, and the visual culture of the printed media and decisive moments in modern painting.
Her next solo show “Fallible Space” at Bluecoat in Liverpool has the play “Collision” (1916) by British artist, poet, playwright, novelist, feminist and actress Mina Loy as starting point. For the opening on Friday, 22 January, on 7 p.m., Gordon’s large-scale silkscreen panels will be activated by a physical theatre performance.

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Here Gordon talks about the project “WE (Not I)“ she initiated together with Marina Vishmidt in 2015 to bring together a wide range of female artists, writers, curators and thinkers identifying with feminist practices to exchange and produce content addressing questions around the role of "we" in contemporary art practice.