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Showing Through February 24, 2018

In our project space for the month of February:

Melissa Furness re-imagines the sublime nature of early Romanticism to present the viewer with overgrown layers of re-appropriated and fragmented images of invented ruins that come together to depict alternative worlds of picturesque decline and the narrative self. Hand-colored post cards, tourist photos, thrift store paintings, paintings within paintings, historical patterns and battle plans, abstraction, and snow globes are integrated and contrasted by actual nature and fake.

Referencing late 18th and early …