Jennifer Coates “Correspondences”

Freight and Volume

[Image: Jennifer Coates "Spring Trees" (2018) acrylic on canvas, 72 x 96 in.]

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Freight+Volume presents Jennifer Coates’ Correspondences.

Diverging from her food-centered paintings, spotlighted in her previous solo exhibition at the gallery, All U Can Eat, Coates’ new works feature abstracted landscapes grounded in an engagement with early modernism and an exploration of color relationships. Coates’ radiant palette imparts a surreal quality to the works, and the shifting balance of color harmonies and tensions bears its own momentum, intertwined with the fragmented compositions of the paintings. Her attention to the materiality of paint lends her work an almost visceral physicality, reminiscent of hallucinatory, psychedelic states and the phenomenon of closed-eye visuals. Treading the line between seemingly metaphysical abstraction and an exaltation of paint’s physicality, Coates’ work offers a visionary take on the natural world and the landscape, broadening its parameters and expanding its allusive potential.