Melissa Doherty (BA 1993) at the X-Camera Speaker Series

MELISSA DOHERTY: Losing Ground

As part of Inter Arts Matrix's X-Camera Speaker Series, Fine Arts Alumna Melissa Doherty will speak about her painting and how she plays with the perceptions of both landscape and landscape painting.  The talk is on Friday November 15, 2019 at noon (doors open at 11:30) at Fresh Ground, 256 King St. E., Kitchener, Ontario.  Bring your own brown bag lunch, or get a vegan lunch at the Fresh Ground Café next door.  (This is a SCENT FREE event).

In her recent exhibition called Losing Ground, Doherty  examines the way natural elements are removed from the ground and displayed in containers and planters, on rooftops and green walls, to explore the facade and artifice in the constructed landscape. She considers how this positions the natural landscape as one step removed from the ground that sustains it, creating a veneer of landscape. In her talk, Melissa will also make reference to a body of work called Cloud Witness that was exhibited in 2017 at Open Sesame Gallery. Cloud Witness is about intersections: between the sky and the earth, between the spiritual and the material, between the realm of the mind and the realm of the body, between differing perspectives and identities, between the short-sighted view and the broad perspective.