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Melissa Furness Art

American
Melissa Furness received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa. Her work has been most influenced by her travel experiences, which have included artist residencies in Beijing, China; Mexico City; Ireland; Gdansk, Poland; and Hungary, as well as those in the U.S. at Jentel in Wyoming, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California and Yaddo in upstate New York. These experiences have formed the core of her creative research, with her current strain of work in painting and installation influenced by public histories infused with personal narrative. Furness regularly exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with group exhibitions and open studios in Beijing, Mexico City, Budapest, Swansea, Florence, Lecce, Zurich, Korea, Cape Town, Palestine and Sarajevo, amongst others. Most recently her work has been featured in the Summer 2022 issue ‘We Are All Meat’ of the Netherlands-based art magazine, SeeAllThis as well as edition #132 of New American Paintings through Open Studios Press. Her work has also traveled to Germany as part of the ‘Calculations: Units of Measurement’ exhibitions in Berlin and Rudolstadt. Previously, she was selected to participate in the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Karala, India through A.I.R. Gallery of New York and was an art ambassador in Mexico City for 10 weeks in 2015 as part of the Biennial of the Americas. The artist is an alumni of A.I.R. Gallery as well as a current member of the Artnauts Collective, both of which use the visual arts as a tool for addressing global issues. She has worked with galleries in New York, Seattle, Palm Springs and Zurich leading up to her current representation with K Contemporary Art. Furness is Professor of Art Practices and Illustration at the University of Colorado Denver.
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corpo estraneo 6

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By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

Category

2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

Materials

Resin, Oil, Acrylic

Transitoria 2: Triomphe

Transitoria 2: Triomphe

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

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Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Transitoria 1: Mittelalter

Transitoria 1: Mittelalter

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Lady Lichen 1: After the Sabines

Lady Lichen 1: After the Sabines

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Oil, Acrylic

corpo estraneo 5
corpo estraneo 5

corpo estraneo 5

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

Category

2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

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Resin, Oil, Acrylic

corpo estraneo 7

corpo estraneo 7

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

Category

2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

Materials

Resin, Oil, Acrylic

Melancholy and Its Antidote
Melancholy and Its Antidote

Melancholy and Its Antidote

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Decorative, dense tangles of weeds and overgrowth serve as metaphors for personal habits and behaviors we’d like to eliminate. Like garden weeds, these behaviors can be invasive, ev...

Category

2010s Naturalistic Melissa Furness Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

corpo estraneo 3
corpo estraneo 3

corpo estraneo 3

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Long fascinated with nature’s way of reclaiming what humans build, artist Melissa Furness visually depicts how organic and self-imposed deterioration confuses our sense of reality an...

Category

2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

Materials

Resin, Oil, Acrylic

Solar Plexus
Solar Plexus

Solar Plexus

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

"Solar Plexus" by Denver artist and professor Melissa Furness showcases the artist's signature layering techniques. This particular work is from the 2022 series "Romantic Overgrowth....

Category

2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

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Linen, Oil

Visitation
Visitation

Visitation

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

"Visitation" combines digital print making with oil painting to create a dizzying display. This particular work is from the 2022 series "Romantic Overgrowth." Characteristic of the s...

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2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

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Fair Game

Fair Game

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

"Fair Game" by Denver artist and professor Melissa Furness is from the 2022 series "Romantic Overgrowth." Characteristic of the series and Furness's wider pr...

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2010s Contemporary Melissa Furness Art

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The Progress of Love

The Progress of Love

By Melissa Furness

Located in Denver, CO

Melissa Furness is an artist that treats painting as a conceptual object that challenges history. Each series is related through this conceptual exploration of the distortions of his...

Category

2010s Naturalistic Melissa Furness Art

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Oil, Acrylic, Panel, Graphite

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