Plus Gallery opens the fall 2012 season with the return of Karen
McClanahan, one of the most acclaimed and revered artists in the
gallery stable, for her unprecedented fifth solo exhibition
"Stacks." Karen's latest exploration is a major divergence
from her previous effort, 2009's "Everything Has Its Place,"
taking a more intimate and varied approach, both in scale and
diversity of the works. The title "Stacks" has many
associations - among others, it suggests the broad context of a
library: books, order, indexing, and the self-referentiality of the
former index card system. For McClanahan's purposes of the exhibition
it refers to how geometric fields were painted in this new body of
work - stacked and overlapping one another. It relates to the look of
the compositions - defined geometric shapes stacked one upon the
other. Finally, it alludes to the horizontal lines stacked one above
the other in the multi panel work "Sequential Chroma Loop 9,"
the first of it's kind for the artist. The SCL9 accompanying book is a
literal stack of individual pages housed in an archival box.
Plus Gallery will welcome McClanahan back to Denver for the opening reception this Friday, September 7th from 6-8pm, please join us that night. Read more about Karen's current body of work on the current exhibition page of the Plus Gallery website.
Plus Gallery will welcome McClanahan back to Denver for the opening reception this Friday, September 7th from 6-8pm, please join us that night. Read more about Karen's current body of work on the current exhibition page of the Plus Gallery website.
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