ONE WEEK ONLY - MORGAN/MRAMOR COLLABORATIVE PAINTINGS FROM NY ON VIEW AT PLUS GALLERY

Those who have closely followed Jenny Morgan's career, or know Jenny personally, are well aware of how much she values the relationship and talent of friend and fellow artist David Mramor.  Her initial collaborations with Mramor back in 2008, first exhibited via Plus Gallery at our then auxiliary space Object + Thought, were extremely critical for Jenny in turning the corner with her own career, allowing her to blossom forward with fearless, breathtaking works that have made her one of the most respected artists of the last decade.  While Jenny's career has always had an unprecedented trajectory, Mramor's has taken more time to find it's place within his NY circles and beyond. But that has all changed this year, Mramor's recently concluded exhibition "Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control" with Brendan Smith at NYC gallery Louis B. James garnered high praise, including a writeup in the art section of the New Yorker, and by all counts he is starting to hit the stride that Jenny has always believed he would.

A number of the Jenny and David's collaborative paintings have found their way to Denver this week for a private collection and will be on view on our second floor for the remainder of our summer schedule, which ends next Friday, August 17th.  Come by for a rare opportunity to view these terrific, ground-breaking works by two artists who are firmly poised for major careers in the arts, and also to hear firsthand major Jenny Morgan developments that we'll be announcing later towards the start of the fall season.

From the "vis-a-visage" press release, June 2008

Plus Gallery is also thrilled to have the pleasure of unveiling a new painting by long-time favorite Jenny Morgan, as well as a recent collaborative piece with fellow NY artist David Mramor. Fresh from completing her graduate studies at New York Cities premier School of Visual Arts, Morgan has delved into works that dismantle the process of historic female portraiture by allowing the startlingly fleshy red under painting to "bleed" through. These paintings illustrate the artists heavily invested relationship and response to the "conventional" painting process, successfully raising the question "when is a painting complete" while challenging the success of her own previous works. Her collaboration pieces also present a fascinating divergence from her preceding paintings by the unique reactions that take place between the two artists. Mramor's heavy abstract treatment of paint beautifully accentuates Morgan's tight rendering techniques. Together, the polarization creates a dynamic energy that can only be felt in person.