ARVADA, USA

Melissa Furness: Embedded

Conceptual artist and painter Melissa Furness explores a mistranslated past as embedded within the present, drawing from experiences of place and site, and on the tradition of painting and narrative. Treating painting as a conceptual object, her work examines distortions of history, questioning what is revered versus what is discarded and forgotten. Her work highlights both narratives shaped by power structures and the individual—what is presented as truth versus the realities of personal and local histories. Amongst all of this is a depiction of struggle affected by history as expressed in ways that are responsive to a contemporary present.