Jenny Goring:
Mixed Media Collage,
Digital Artist, & Illustrator
Jenny Goring, a Westminster, Colorado based artist, creates multi-layered and intricate collage-paintings from a wide array of ephemera and handmade papers.
Her current work centers on the theme of Inner Beauty as she is seeking ways to create portraits of her subjects which focus not on how they look, but who they are on the inside… which she believes is where true beauty lies.
Jenny earned her BFA at the Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2012. Her previous degree was a B.S. in International Politics from Penn State in 1994. Her interest has always been in people; improving relationships, uplifting, and empowering individuals, and focusing on the positive. Realizing a career in politics was not her path to this goal, she turned to art to accomplish it.
In the intervening years she experimented with jewelry/metalworking, stained glass, ceramics and more. She has worked as a graphic designer over 15 years, which influences her aesthetic and her process greatly.
Her award-winning collage-paintings have been exhibited in several places around Denver and the Front Range area and in Aspen, Colorado. She has participated in Artist Residencies in Saratoga, Wyoming and Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
When she is not working, Jenny enjoys traveling, camping, flower gardening, cooking, and hanging out with her three cats.
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JENNY GORING
EDUCATION
2012: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Communication Design, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2018: Paint Pouring workshop at Foothills art Center with Pam Fortner | Golden, CO
2018: Mixed Media workshop with Suzette Rosenthal | Broomfield, CO
2014, 2017: Oil Painting & Portraits at the Art Students League of Denver | Denver, CO
2005-2009: Metal Smithing at Arapahoe Community College | Littleton, CO
RESIDENCY
2019: Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts | Saratoga, WY
AWARDS
2019: Best in Show – Loveland Public Library Galleria | Loveland, CO
2018: Mayor’s Award – Drawing the Line, 40 West Arts | Lakewood, CO
2017: Honorable Mention – Brookfield Tenant Art Exhibit at Republic Plaza | Denver, CO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017: Re/Max Alliance | Westminster, CO
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2020: Foothills Art Center Member Show | Golden, CO
2019: Love Letters: 40 West Arts Gallery | Lakewood, CO
2019: Beyond the Gallery – A Project HARTwork Event | Denver, CO
2019: Foothills Art Center Member Show | Golden, CO
2019: Art on Loan Program at Loveland Public Library | Loveland, CO
2018: Drawing the Line: 40 West Arts Gallery | Lakewood, CO
2018: All That You Can Imagine: CORE New Art Space | Denver, CO
2017: Brookfield Tenant Art Exhibit; Republic Plaza | Denver, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019: Featured Artist at Creative Framing and Gallery | Louisville, CO
2018: Journey of the Senses at Re/Max Alliance | Westminster, CO
2017: Emergence: a 3-Woman Exhibit; Westminster Brewing Company | Westminster, CO
2016, 2015, 2014: Group Exhibits; Westminster Brewing Company | Westminster, CO
2009, 2011, 2012: Metropolitan Sate University of Denver Hall Gallery | Denver, CO
PUBLIC ART
2018: CDOT Muralist at Swansea Elementary School | Denver, CO
Watch & Learn
Check out this video to learn more about Jenny’s inspirations, processes, and passions when it comes to creating her art.
Jenny's Multi-Layered Approach to Texture & Meaning
My mixed media collage paintings delve beneath the surface appearance of my subjects to showcase the layered biographies and experiences at work within each of us. Composed of oil paint and repurposed magazines, vintage photos and maps, art paper, botanical illustrations, and other ephemera, the images I construct are both straight-forward and complex. The making of my art, like the subject it hopes to capture, is a work in progress—constantly evolving to invoke greater meanings, incorporate more perspectives, and convey narratives about what it means to be human.
