Transformer by Melissa Capasso at Sweet Lorraine Gallery

Sweet Lorraine Gallery is pleased to present Transformer, a solo exhibition of painting and drawing by Melissa Capasso. Featuring shapeshifting forms in lush, deliberate compositions, the exhibition explores themes of transformation and transition.

In her first solo exhibition in Brooklyn, Capasso introduces several new bodies of work that connect through the use of morphing biological forms and a distinct visual language. Capasso’s representational imagery is born of memory and the subconscious and presents as fragmented narrative in a way that lures the viewer into an already unfolding story. A personal iconography weaves through the exhibition; symbols, patterns, references to cartoon, myth, and art history combine to form dynamic dreamstates. Through her incisive compositions, her paintings’ vivid, exuberant palette, and the thoughtful charcoal lines of her drawings, Capasso portrays an indeterminate existence between our physical world and an increasingly visual life perceived through screens and technology. Eyes, fingers, and breasts emerge and dissolve to suggest transitional identities, places, and states of being. In these concentrated, visceral works, phantom anatomies act as markers of life in the midst of metamorphosis.