Plus Gallery artist Melissa Furness has put together a dynamic mixture of elements that make her recently opened solo exhibition "Romantic Overgrowth" one of the most unique viewing experiences in recent memory. Her complex paintings are charged with a variety of overlapping techniques, combining for her most outstanding and full-realized work to date. She has installed the paintings in a manner that further stimulates the imagination, such as the twelve-foot wide canvas "deluge after the deluge," which is surrounded by moss to fill an entire wall, as if the painting were embedded in the very nature it reflects upon. The unusual combination of elements that she mixes together for the installation are intended to stimulate a thoughtful dialogue regarding early romanticism in painting, as well as a wider array of concepts that have inspired Furness throughout her distinguished career.
Melissa Furness with her installation assistants
Images of the installation are now available online at http://plusgallery.com/exhibitions/76/143/
Read a report on the exhibition by Metro State reporter Stephanie Alderton out in the schools paper this week:
Please join Plus Gallery on First Friday, February 7th for extended gallery hours and an informal talk with Furness about her work in the exhibition starting at 7pm.
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