Running from January 23 – March 1, 2020, Jennifer Coates (CRF 2019)’s “Toxic Halo” is her debut at the High Noon Gallery.
The title, Toxic Halo, is a phrase from a song written by the artist called “Ruin.” Sunlight hits the flesh, the air repeats your name, like a toxic halo around me. In her paintings, radiant halos surround figures and trees, amplifying the color relationships between shapes and their environment. Coates’s color choices– phosphorescent green and jaundice yellow combined with synthetic pink and corporate lavender– are both glowing and sickly toxic. She manipulates the inherent transparent properties of acrylic paint to achieve a surprising and unique luminescence.
A full-color, limited edition catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase with an essay by poet Dora Malech (CRF 2009), Assistant Professor of poetry at Johns Hopkins University.