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One of the more interesting developments of 21st century art, beyond the rise of conceptualism and digital forms, is the re-emergence of collaboration. This is a smart exhibit and typical of the interesting things that happen in PlatteForumвЂ™s galleries. The pieces are sweet really, but even more valuable because they hint at the complex thinking that goes into Hollis + LanaвЂ™s painted worlds. The kids are displaying their own versions of the same sort of paintings, not as elegant though equally jumbled. Hollis + Lana created them during their recent residency at the community-minded PlatteForum, a gig that also included mentoring young people from the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation. ThereвЂ™s no compromise evident in the gooey вЂњMishuвЂќ or the hairy вЂњDown Spout,вЂќ two of the more abstracted, edited and, because of that, better of the offerings. A viewer takes in a busy sculpture like вЂњThe Roman Candy ManвЂќ and wonders who contributed that fish tail and who allowed it? Where does Hollis stop and Lana start? Do things get tense between them? Boom!Д«ut even the canvas pieces, like вЂњBand mates,вЂќ with its spin-art edges, have a reassuring certainty to them. Turns must be taken with the brush, control yielded in such a way that no one looks like the supporting player.

Tasks can be separated.Д«ut a painting doesnвЂ™t have natural divisions like that, at least not these paintings. Collaboration is not the same for artists as it is for, say, a composer and librettist who create an opera, or a pair of figure skaters. The same force is at work with Hollis + Lana, who meld comfortably into a unified voice. Subconsciousness is not Captain America or Thor or the Hulk, itвЂ™s the Avengers. There is energy in memory, and itвЂ™s a singular force as these pieces imply. Truth is, our mental images do collide and our references to the real world can get confused.

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Process rules here the globs are full of rigor. This is the kind of work that comes early in an artistвЂ™s career, not later.Д«ut itвЂ™s not as childish as all that either. As Peter Pan, that loser, learned the hard way, cute is disposable. Tapping the adorable images of boyhood and girlhood only goes so far. Truly, this abstraction of distractions threatens to be as cloying as this endless list of nouns implies. Looking at the large mural вЂњTea Cups & the Carnival,вЂќ one might shout, вЂњItвЂ™s a bird, no itвЂ™s a plane, no itвЂ™s a mouse or a whale or a Smurf.вЂќ Instead, we get hints of the iconography that clogs their minds and the connections between all these images. The work here takes on a lot of things, but not one thing specifically. TheyвЂ™ve consumed tons of pop culture, and now they are giving it back to us in acrylic paint and plastic. Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana are 35 and 29 respectively molded in the Internet age, self-actualized in the text-message era, schooled by graffiti and animГ©. ItвЂ™s youthful stuff, remixing the relics of the second вЂњStar WarsвЂќ generation into something more than nostalgia. It is all bubblegum, really, chewed into elastic, then stretched and pulled and smacked against a canvas.

The inspiration here starts in the land of kids, in comic books and cartoons, video games, dinosaurs and cuddly monsters, in candy pink and lime sherbert, daisies and dwarfs, superheroes and bubblegum. The work is serious, but itвЂ™s an adventure. With a title like вЂњBoom, Bang and Splat,вЂќВ the duo Hollis + Lana invite us all to have some fun taking in the paintings, murals and sculptures theyвЂ™re showing at PlatteForum this month. At DenverвЂ™s PlatteForum, art that goes pop! And pow! And ka-boom! вЂ“ The Denver Post