Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2012
NEW YORK—This isn’t a Mondrian exhibit, but the direct reference to the Dutch painters grid-based work is uncanny. Melissa Gordon’s paintings are also grid-based. The canvases in “Structures for Viewing” are inspired by printed media, riffing on the abstract patterns that emerge among the columns, text and image boxes.
The exhibit at Marianne Boesky Gallery, is Gordon’s first solo show in New York. According to the gallery, “Gordon looks to the newspaper, a powerful force in the century of Modernism, as both document and institution, indicative of the phenomenon of how systems of information are framed and perpetuated. The titles of these paintings name the journals and dates of major media moments of the past century that she carefully chooses to ‘present’.”
Gordon is a relatively young artist. Born in Boston in 1981, she lives and works in London.