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Adrian Coleman
Terra Incognita

Adrian Coleman makes paintings of solitary figures depicted within austere urban settings. His work considers a fraught relationship to geography, to feel of and outside a place at once. While living in London between 2017 and 2021, Coleman assumed the paradox of being both native and foreign. He had been born in Britain to a multi-ethnic family but grew up in the United States. Coleman channeled this dissonance in the work of his 2021 solo exhibition, “Citizens of Nowhere.” The title, an infamous Theresa May expression, referred to people of expansive backgrounds.

In the same year, Coleman repatriated to New York as the Covid emergency subsided. His subsequent paintings are more pointedly about the limbo of existing between worlds. His latest bifurcated series includes watercolors of Brixton, South London and oil paintings of Gowanus, Brooklyn, both neighborhoods where he has lived and painted. The paintings are an ambivalent meditation on home, both the home where one resides but also the home that one recalls. Simultaneously, the motifs of shuttered storefronts, desolate streets, and masked individuals recur. The paintings are a tableau of a plague and its aftermath. In their conflation of London and New York, they are also a vision of an embattled West.

-edit from the artist’s statement

Opening reception with the artist
Wed., May 27th, 6pm - 8pm
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