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Published on the 20th of October, Edward Fennel is writing about art & culture as well as the Travers Smiths’s CRS Art Prize. The article featured Magnuson’s Greenville from her Mississippi series.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries posted a blog written by Magnuson expanding on her Mississippi project as it relates to the current American situation.
To read the post click here
Magnuson’s works have been selected to be included in the CSR Art Programme by Travers Smith for 2017-2018. This programme done in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery in London UK., will provide invaluable insights in exhibitions planning and development and complement the professional development programme including legal advice, business skills workshop and more.
To learn more about this programme visit Travers Smith CSR Art Programme
Melissa Magnuson is proud to announce that her work Mississippi is currently featured in the second issue of the UK based magazine Syrup. This issue titled Open Borders discusses borders, boundaries, and division which permeates destructive political rhetoric. We are bombarded by classification, be it lines on a map, in relation to our personal and collective identities, or the rules and social codes we adhere to. We also celebrate and find solace in common beliefs and aims. We organise, unify and re-categorise.
It can be ordered by clicking here
SYRUP Issue 2 //FEATURING WORK BY//
Agata Kik/Alvin Ong/Arts Sisterhood UK/Anais Ortega/Anna Ridler/Bella Riza/Camilla Brown/Clair Le Couteur/Cong Yao/Emily Briselden-Waters/Emily Cole/Huma Kabakci/Hyun Kim/Jeongkeun Lee/Julia Schuster/Laura Nasir-Tamara/Letizia Iman & Andrea Dal Martello/La Batarde/Melanie King/Melissa Magnuson/Olivia Mathurin-Essandoh/Oyinkansola Akande/Seo Hye Lee/Shad Abusalama and Sara Jafari/Sing Hang Tamara/Tamara Kametani/Tolu Odusanya & Umi Baden-Powell/Yemi Abiade
Baxterville I – IX, from the Mississippi series, 2017
01 October 2017
NEWCASTLE UK.
Melissa Magnuson’s haunting examination of time and place in Mississippi is now being shown in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 Exhibit, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle UK from 29 September to 26 November 2017.
Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consistently provided a critical platform featuring a limited number of recent fine art graduates by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition. Melissa Magnuson is one of 45 emerging artists selected from an application submission of over 1500.
Magnuson is a recent MA graduate with distinction from London’s Royal College of Art. As a Fine Art and History of Art honours graduate of Goldsmiths University, her work Supertourists was selected for the Goldsmiths University Warden’s Purchase Award and is now a permanent inclusion in the Goldsmith University Collection.
Magnuson’s recent exhibitions have included Art Dubai, Art Basel/Miami USA, Catania Italy and London UK.
London, UK October, 2016
it’s not about the land Melissa Magnuson
Hoxton Arches Arch 402 | Cremer Street | London | E2 8HD
Opening night: 6 – 9 pm 3 November, 2016 Opening Hours: 10 – 7 pm 4 – 7 November, 2016 Artist Talk 3 – 4 pm 5 November, 2016
Timothy, 2016
Melissa Magnuson first solo exhibition to showcase landscape, power and the San Carlos Apache community
Opening on the First Thursday – East London night, it’s not about the land is Melissa Magnuson’s first solo exhibition. This work comprises large format photography, in situ installation that includes remnants of the landscape and video installation to explore the relationship of a Native American community with the land, as well as her own position as an outsider. The London based American born artist presents a facet of her recurring themes which include social identity constructs and complexities within landscape and power. She considers landscape not as an object, but a dynamic process that entrenches power relations and forms social identities.
A critical component of her work method is the collaborative aspect of it; the integration of various players in the dialogue. In this particular context, she is reflecting on traces left behind three generations after the attempted cultural genocide of the Apache tribe by the US Government. The impact of post colonialism is explored through the activism, tribal rituals and day to day existence of people living on the “rez” in San Carlos Arizona.
The work invites the viewer to consider the geopolitical realities of the San Carlos Apache community, while renegotiating the contradictory myths and what might be called history of the people, landscape and politics without a particular agenda. The challenge is to allow the complexity of the material shape a point of view.
For further information about this exhibition, Melissa Magnuson’s work or any other queries, please contact Evlyne Laurin, artist liaison: e.laurin@melissamagnuson.com or +44 790 168 687
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This image of Dorothy – taken at the Old Adults Center in San Carlos Arizona last February – is from Melissa’s current Series Landscape and Power. It was shortlisted for the YOUMANITY ImAge Photography Award 2016.
Proudly representing a Native American tribe, the San Carlos Apaches from Arizona, these people steadfastly speak the historic Apache language, and tell the stories of their oppression from colonialism.
This body of work is very important in Melissa’s current practice. She will visit this location again in August/September 2016 to conclude the series. Stay connected via Facebook or Instagram for more details and news. If you are interested to participate to the project and are from San Carlos Arizona please email your details to Evlyne – Artist Liaison & Studio Manager at e.laurin@melissamagnuson.com
6 April – 10 April 2016, Dyson Gallery
Dyson Gallery | Royal College of Art
1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
Opening Party:
Wednesday 6th April 7-10pm
Exhibition Opening Times:
6th – 8th April : 2-7 pm
9th – 10th April : 12-5 pm
THE CAMPAIGN – a group show is the occasion to help raise funds for the Royal College of Art’s Fine Art Bursary Fund and to discover U can’t miss it – a work by Melissa Magnuson from her new current series Landscape and Power.
THE CAMPAIGN is a photography exhibition by selected students from the School of Fine Art and is presented in collaboration with online galleries Subject Matter and Sedition. The exhibit “is a response to the changing art world. RCA Fine Art students submitted work which addresses contemporary concerns about the artist’s place in a new reality. The exhibition ignites a debate about the space for pure creativity in a world so dominated by the ephemeral.”
RCA Secret 2016 – London and Dubai – The occasion to snap up original postcard-sized artworks by new and internationally acclaimed artists.
RCA Secret is an exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by regional and internationally acclaimed artists and designers, plus up-and-coming graduates from the Royal College of Art.
Magnuson produced two postcards; one from the in progress series Garden in the Machine and a second one from the Representations series.
For more information, visit : http://dubai.secret.rca.ac.uk/2016/ or email Evlyne Laurin – Artist Liaison & Studio Manager at e.laurin@melissamagnuson.com
