Melissa Gordon

Melissa Gordon is an artist, author, teacher, organiser and publisher living in Brussels. She studied painting and graphic art at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a professor of painting at the Oslo Art Academy. In her painting, she explores how visual stories emerge from spatial relationships within individual works, series of paintings and architectural settings. She combines techniques such as screen printing, text and collage with research into themes like the representation of women in power structures, the failure of democracies, and questions about gender, authorship and the history of painting.