Every Fall, the Frans Masereel Centrum organizes a series of artist talks for the participants of its collective residencies and for external visitors.
All talks are free of charge; please book your ticket in advance, as seats are very limited!
Location: Frans Masereel Centrum
SAT 6.11.2021 (doors 14:30pm – start 15pm)
Melissa Gordon in conversation with Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
London-based artist Melissa Gordon (b. 1981) takes up questions of authorship and abstraction in her ongoing serial projects: Blow Up Modernists, Structures for Viewing, and most recently, Material Evidence. In these series, Gordon implements her particular cache of gestures – enlarging hidden details, zooming in on patterns of reproduction, and distorting information with abstraction in paintings, silkscreens and installations – to reconfigure histories, surfaces, and iconographies through a feminist lens. With her sculptural installations, prints and paintings, Gordon takes a humorous and insightful stance vis-à-vis modernist art history, challenging the canon precisely through her close and unique reading of it.
Melissa Gordon was born in Boston in 1981. She received her BFA in Painting & Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence) in 2003. She continued her education at the Cooper Union School of Art in 2002 and participated in the post-graduate art program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 2003-2005. She has exhibited throughout Europe and the UK including shows at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Wiels, Brussels, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Marres, Maastricht. Her first solo exhibition in New York, A Lonely Crowd, was in 2009 at Marianne Boesky Gallery, followed by Structures for Viewing (2012), a curated group exhibition, Specific Collisions, at the Gallery’s uptown space in early 2013, and another solo exhibition at BOESKY EAST in 2014.
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (MX) started her tenure as Director at Kunstinstituut Melly in January 2018, after being the curator of contemporary art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in Caracas and New York from 2011 to 2017. In 2016-2017, she was also guest curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. In 2013, Sofía was artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre in Brazil, and before that, she was an agent of dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel. In the past, Sofía has been director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and held curatorial positions in New York at Art in General and Americas Society. She is also a board member of Council in Paris and of Creative Time in New York.
Every Fall, the Frans Masereel Centrum organizes a series of artist talks for the participants of its collective residencies and for external visitors.
All talks are free of charge; please book your ticket in advance, as seats are very limited!
Location: Frans Masereel Centrum
SAT 6.11.2021 (doors 14:30pm – start 15pm)
Melissa Gordon in conversation with Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
London-based artist Melissa Gordon (b. 1981) takes up questions of authorship and abstraction in her ongoing serial projects: Blow Up Modernists, Structures for Viewing, and most recently, Material Evidence. In these series, Gordon implements her particular cache of gestures – enlarging hidden details, zooming in on patterns of reproduction, and distorting information with abstraction in paintings, silkscreens and installations – to reconfigure histories, surfaces, and iconographies through a feminist lens. With her sculptural installations, prints and paintings, Gordon takes a humorous and insightful stance vis-à-vis modernist art history, challenging the canon precisely through her close and unique reading of it.
Melissa Gordon was born in Boston in 1981. She received her BFA in Painting & Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence) in 2003. She continued her education at the Cooper Union School of Art in 2002 and participated in the post-graduate art program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 2003-2005. She has exhibited throughout Europe and the UK including shows at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Wiels, Brussels, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Marres, Maastricht. Her first solo exhibition in New York, A Lonely Crowd, was in 2009 at Marianne Boesky Gallery, followed by Structures for Viewing (2012), a curated group exhibition, Specific Collisions, at the Gallery’s uptown space in early 2013, and another solo exhibition at BOESKY EAST in 2014.
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (MX) started her tenure as Director at Kunstinstituut Melly in January 2018, after being the curator of contemporary art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in Caracas and New York from 2011 to 2017. In 2016-2017, she was also guest curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. In 2013, Sofía was artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre in Brazil, and before that, she was an agent of dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel. In the past, Sofía has been director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and held curatorial positions in New York at Art in General and Americas Society. She is also a board member of Council in Paris and of Creative Time in New York.