Art review: Nancy Morgan Barnes’ dense paintings tell complex tales

BY DANIEL KANY, PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

“In the Studio,” by Nancy Morgan Barnes Photos by Kevin Johnson

“In the Studio” is a sort of self-portrait of the artist Nancy Morgan Barnes looking over her shoulder at her husband, Robert Barnes, while he reads a newspaper and simultaneously watches football on a small television. The room is crammed with painting supplies, chairs, wall pieces (including a mounted buck’s head and a giant bunny mask) and, set on a table, a Cezanne-like skull.

It’s not that the skull looks like Cezanne (at least as far as we know), but that it is painted in the style of Cezanne. And that is no mean feat. Cezanne might be recognizable for leaving parts of his canvases untouched by his brush, but where there was paint, it was dense in terms of color, light and texture.

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