ArtistsMelissa DohertyDoherty’s works continue to challenge the way we perceive landscapes. Instead of looking out at deep, frontier space, largely found in the grand tradition of landscape painting, her paintings look down at very shallow spaces. The aerial view reflects a notion of landscape where we are above it, increasingly unconnected and distanced from it, changing and rearranging what we see. Her landscapes are designed and manipulated like an architectural model and are often seen as ‘still-lives’ where the viewer is absorbed into the scene or the nature depicted. Melissa Doherty graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She was on the shortlist of 16 artists in 2002 at the RBC New Canadian Painting Competition. A recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council, her work has been included in exhibitions at Queen's Park, the University of Toronto, Art Chicago, Scope Miami, and Arte Contemporaneo,Mexico City. Melissa is a former member of the Red Head Collective, Toronto. Her work is represented in many private and public collections in Canada and the U.S, including the Progressive Art Collection, U.S., the Royal Bank of Canada and the University of Toronto.
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