Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio will open the group exhibition
"Lost Horizon" on Friday, November 9th. Curated by Tim
Parsley from over 600 artwork entries, the exhibition involves art
about history, and includes works from sixteen national and
international artists including Plus Gallery's own Melissa Furness
with her 2009 painting "Wake." Parsley's exhibition
statement is as follows:
Everything that has ever happened, ever, has led to this moment...
A small slice of the leading edge of the wave of time is documented, encapsulated, and frozen in the form of human history. They say that history is written by the winners. Perhaps it is more true to say that it is written by those who survive, and only for the brief time in which they can still talk (or make art) about it. That, we suppose, would be the collective 'us.'
History is generally divided into two philosophies, speculative and critical. Regardless of which, key words apply, and include terms such as progress, truth, fact, civilization, cycles, patterns, society, past, direction, humanity, linear, evolution, and so on. Inevitably, history is a view of humanity across time.
How do artists reflect upon, and even participate in history? Surely some do it consciously, as a subject of focus. Others may have it in mind, without the intention of feeding into or addressing it at all. Whatever the case may be, Manifest offers Lost Horizon as a survey of how artists working today make work which is in one way or another about history.
Find out more about the program and exhibition at
Melissa Furness - "Wake"
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