Jennifer Coates’ (CRF 2019) work is featured in a group show presented concurrently in both Palm Beach and New York City. Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, curated by Todd Bradway, is on view until May 25 at Acquavella Gallery in Palm Beach, FL and until June 10 at their New York location. For more information, click here.
“Presenting myriad conceptual and formal approaches for picturing our natural world, the works on view are united in their highly stylized approach to depicting landscape, as well as a hyperreal sense of color, form, and perspective, which together serve to create heightened and vivid representations of our modern world. The exhibition features a diverse group of paintings, including those that skew towards more traditional, perceptually driven, though often distorted, portrayals of our surroundings to others that exhibit a more abstracted, expressive flatness, connected by their shared mediation with modern modes of perception… Unnatural Nature considers the vibrant work of a new generation of artists pushing the genre forward, alongside significant works by a more established generation of painters… For some of these artists—for example Jennifer Coates and Daniel Heidkamp—an exploration of the history of art itself becomes a key subject of their canvases, whereas others focus on the emotional potential of painting and memory… [Unnatural Nature] gives us a deeper understanding of our place in the world while further reinforcing the ongoing potency of contemporary painting.”
Image: Works by Jennifer Coates (left- Three Crows, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2022, 5×6 feet), Jon Joanis, Alex Katz, and Gideon Appah on view in Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, in the New York gallery April 21 – June 10, 2022. Installation view by Kent Pell.