Plus Gallery artist Jenny Morgan recently completed a stellar new painting for the group exhibition "Dark Water" hosted by the Copro Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, which opens this Friday night, features 29 renowned artists curated by renowned painter Martin Wittfooth. Here's the text from the press release:
"The dullest soul cannot go upon such an expedition without some of the spirit of adventure; as if he had stolen the boat of Charon and gone down the Styx on a midnight expedition in the realms of Pluto.... The silent navigator shoves his craft gently over the water, with a smothered pride and sense of benefaction, as if he
were phosphor, or light-bringer, to these dusky realms, or some sister moon, blessing the spaces with her light."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Bringing together 29 internationally renowned contemporary painters, Dark Water is a collaborative exploration of a theme that yields both personal as well as universal interpretations. Historically in art and literature, the imagery of dark water has made a symbolic allusion to various states of the inner self, such as the murky depths of the subconscious or the raging seas of our more turbulent moods. Alternatively, in our modern age the imagery of dark water can also provoke a reflection on such topics as environmental imbalance and a global dependency on - and uneasy relationship with - the dark waters of industry.
Ferrying us across this stygian visual landscape are some of the most celebrated painters of our era. Artists in this group have their work included in such public collections as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, and London's National Portrait Gallery, and in the private collections of such notable collectors as Leonardo diCaprio, Eric Fischl, Nike CEO Mark Parker, Robert Schiell, Howard Tullman, and Kanye West.
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