I’m interested in the concept of how we perceive landscape, and the history of the landscape tradition, with its assertions and sentiments of identity, power and sexuality.  The grand tradition of landscape painting looks outward at frontier space. By contrast, an “engagement� with the aerial view offers a re-presentation of landscape. As we look downward to a place of uncompromised introspection, conventional views of the world are revisited. The manufactured heroism found in traditional landscape is supplanted in these works by a manufactured intimacy*.

Melissa Doherty's work is part of the following collections:  Royal Bank of Canada, Fidelity Investments, Progressive Art Collection, U.S., Femmarte Collection, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Richard W. Ivey, Citibank, BMO

*Michael Rattray, paraphrased from his essay on my work for exhibition catalogue, Vignette, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, 2008

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