In Jenny Morgan’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, death lurks in her compositions. DENVER —Over little more than a decade Jenny Morgan has developed a set of powerful techniques that push paint to make the connection between the earthly and otherworldly more expressively felt. Morgan highlights the uncanny relationship between life and death through her flattening of the image, erasing context through the use of monochromatic backdrops, and applying paint thinly enough to allow the picture’s armature, pencil marks, and canvas appear. Death lurks in her compositions, and is brought to the surface by the treatment of
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