Jennifer Coates
In the proliferation of Jennifer Coates psychedelic paintings she often questions contemporary issues of agricultural food production, addressing the grotesque nature of manufactured food through her mastery of acrylic paint. Her painting techniques mirror the synthetic textures and colors of mass-produced nostalgia-filled foods to reveal a sophisticated understanding of abstract and biomorphic painting. While Coates work appears haphazard and to laud the unruly, the anti-logic, and the messy, it is fundamentally indebted to her commitment to grid-like structures, patterns, and repetition. She attempts to offer a taste of the sublime through her command over paint, bringing forward a radiant and transcendent aura. Her work is rooted in form which relates to her interest in the human and cultural attraction to certain shapes and behaviors. In doing so she explores the relationship between form, ancient rituals, and cultural aesthetic significance.
Coates has recently displayed work in solo exhibitions at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Arts & Leisure in New York, Valentine Gallery in Queens, Tillou + Feigen in New York, and Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami. Selected group exhibitions have been hosted at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, Lorimoto in Queens, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, Airlock Gallery in San Marco, …
In the proliferation of Jennifer Coates psychedelic paintings she often questions contemporary issues of agricultural food production, addressing the grotesque nature of manufactured food through her mastery of acrylic paint. Her painting techniques mirror the synthetic textures and colors of mass-produced nostalgia-filled foods to reveal a sophisticated understanding of abstract and biomorphic painting. While Coates work appears haphazard and to laud the unruly, the anti-logic, and the messy, it is fundamentally indebted to her commitment to grid-like structures, patterns, and repetition. She attempts to offer a taste of the sublime through her command over paint, bringing forward a radiant and transcendent aura. Her work is rooted in form which relates to her interest in the human and cultural attraction to certain shapes and behaviors. In doing so she explores the relationship between form, ancient rituals, and cultural aesthetic significance.
Coates has recently displayed work in solo exhibitions at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Arts & Leisure in New York, Valentine Gallery in Queens, Tillou + Feigen in New York, and Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami. Selected group exhibitions have been hosted at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, Lorimoto in Queens, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, Airlock Gallery in San Marco, California, and Zurcher Gallery in New York. Coates has engaged in curatorial projects at Ortega y Gasset in Brooklyn and Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, New York.
