Flowers for Friends - new paintings by Melanie Parke

Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Melanie Parke. This is the artist’s third one-person exhibition with the gallery who has represented Parke since 2015. Pastoral and bucolic still life settings emerge from Parke’s life. Flowers for Friends is a body of representational and abstract paintings whose lyrical beauty stir emotion and offer an invitation to reminisce. The tenderness of each painting evokes the artist’s fondness for domestic setting and mementos of friendship. Melanie Parke reconstructs familiar interiors and filters them through the ideology of memory.