| Artist Melissa Furness will speak about her recent creative work and research in China as an artist in residence with RedGate Gallery and as an instructor of art with the International College of Beijing through the University of Colorado Denver and China Agricultural University.
Furness’ studies have focused on historical sites throughout China with a look at transformed histories and Chinese Scholar Rocks. To Chinese artists, rocks are the basic building blocks of landscape painting. Furness’ work addresses these notions of the sublime landscape in contemporary terms, as well as object-oriented philosophy that maintains that objects exist independently of human perception.
It is the “translations” and reinterpretations of the artifact through which Furness’ art work explores the life of the art object and the environments that they inhabit. |
