This event has passed.

Art

Melissa Dean: Second Nature

  • Digi_vacuum_large

Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive in Melissa Dean's works at Peter Miller Gallery. In small inkjet prints and larger compositions of enamel and paper on pre-fab doors, Dean creates overgrown jungles of lines by layering the miniaturized contours of chandeliers, vacuum cleaners, and assorted furniture. Combining these tangled webs with ornamental patterns and colored silhouettes on the verge of abstraction, Dean furtively lets the figurative content in her depictions of accumulation fall prey to decorative form. Her works may reflect on so-called commodity culture, but as objects of easy visual enjoyment, they also allude to their place within it.

- Karsten Lund
350 Characters Remaining
Join