Semi-dom Projector, 2017
“The Contemporary wing of the Columbus Museum of Art is turned into a peristyle garden influenced by the stucture of the Falvian Palace by embellishing with wall paintings trompe-l'oeil architecture that is so subtle it can be missed. This faint yet grant presence was a way have the viewer experience a dominance that is in plain sight, yet unseen.
Melissa Vogley Woods’ paintings are poised between representation and abstraction. Her works depict folded, stacked, and stored blankets, but are rendered ambiguous in the push and pull of other painted elements and layered colors. Shifting between landscapes, still lives, and figurative painting, Vogley Woods’ forms alternatively reference objects on a table, geological forms, architecture, bodily contours, and internal organs.
For her installation at CMA, Vogley Woods has added a further element of wall painting. The arches surrounding her works are derived from the architecture of ancient Rome, specifically the Flavian Palace on Palatine Hill. The palace’s half-domes were originally designed to suggest the emperor’s power and divinity, while also offering protection from behind. Framing her large-scale paintings, these arches are both incongruous and consistent with the stacked curves of her painted blankets.”
Tyler Cann, Curator of Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art
