Friday, April 02, 2010

MIRROR, MIRROR FEATURING PLUS GALLERY ARTIST JENNY MORGAN OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND AT POSTMASTERS IN CHELSEA


Plus Gallery artist Jenny Morgan continues her journey towards a distinguished career as a leading artist of our times.  This Friday, April 2nd, Chelsea art gallery Postmasters will unveil the group exhibition "Mirror, Mirror," featuring a prestigious group of contemporary artists (including current Whitney Biennial artist Kate Gilmore) and their individual takes on portraiture.  The exhibition will further to bring Morgan's work to the attention of serious collectors and arts enthusiasts alike at a major venue in our nations art capital.

Postmasters released the following statement on the exhibition: "The portrait has been a staple of the art going back to the Egyptians and the sculptural bust of Nefertiti. Then 3300 or so years later came Andy and Alice and Chuck and Cindy and Annie. What's next? The mind wanders and wonders about something new and relevant to the present moment that the genre can deliver. "Mirror, Mirror" is a group exhibition of nine artists engaged with contemporary portraiture in all media. The works in the show present a variety of approaches from realistic, exquisitely rendered paintings of the artist's friends (Jenny Morgan) and traditional portraits of the members of American Communist Party (Yevgeniy Fiks) to bitingly satirical drawings (William Powhida), unsettling video self portraits (Kate Gilmore), photographs of three generations of artist's family in rural midwest (Chris Verene), video reenactments of people on Facebook who share the same name (Ursula Endlicher), portraits painted directly on top of the people they represent and then photographed to look like a painting (Alexa Meade), and metaphysical psychedelic portraits of people's souls (Jason Robert Bell). Tamas Banovich, will contribute a work involving Chatroulette."

Postmasters Gallery
459 west 19th street
New York, NY 10011
212-727-3323
http://www.postmastersart.com