Conceptual artist and painter Melissa Furness explores a mistranslated past embedded in the present, drawing from experiences of place and site in the tradition of painting and narrative. Treating painting as a conceptual object, her work examines distortions of history, questioning what is revered and remembered versus what is discarded and forgotten. Her work highlights narratives shaped by power structures and the individual — what is presented as truth versus the realities of lived personal and local histories. Throughout her work, she depicts the struggle affected by history, expressed in ways that respond to the contemporary present.

Melissa Furness is represented by K Contemporary, Denver, CO