Michael Warren Contemporary (MWC) is pleased to present “Sweet Wild: paintings by Jody Guralnick”, an exhibit of new paintings by Jody Guralnick. There will be a concurrent exhibit by Kris Cox. Please join us for the opening reception with the artists on Thursday, July 6th, 5-8pm.

Jody Guralnick builds up her panels with oil glazes to evoke dreamy abstract surfaces on which she investigates figurative depictions of fungi, lichen, mycelia, moss, pollen, seed pods and other plants that she finds on her hikes and walks.

Jody Gurlnick dissects and classifies what she observes to transform; she investigates using disruption. Guralnick visually joins things that might seem incongruent to spark the imagination of viewers.

Grualnick’s work is about memory and amnesia, alchemical plants and the rapture of the tiny. It is about the forgotten details and blurring the lines between the microscopic and the macroscopic. It is about shock and the quotidian, just as it is about the space where nature and domesticity rub up against each other. I try to work at the point where two worlds touch; where there is a call, and a response.

Jody Guralnick lives and works in Aspen, CO. She studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston and earned degrees from St. Martin’s School of Art in London and Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited and placed throughout the US.