jennifer coates
david humphrey

Jennifer Coates and David Humphrey fuse heterogeneous ideas into a single image; crashing historical and contemporary themes into each other to draw out hidden longings, anxieties and perspectives. The married couple each uses protagonists and locations to dramatize the vicissitudes of situated personhood. Coates pulls figures and place from images from the canons of art history, while Humphrey finds sources on walks through urban, corporate, domestic, and rural settings that he documents with casual iPhone snaps. There is a collage sensibility at play in the artists’ work as well; sources and references from a variety of contexts and historical eras cavort and fuse in unlikely ways. Both employ many painterly schemas at the same time - using different modes of representation as protagonists in themselves. For their presentation at CAS, the artists will have use of their respective galleries, coming together for a collaborative exhibition in the central gallery.

About the Artists

Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2021 NYFA Award in painting, a Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency. Recent solo shows include Lesser Gods of Lakewood, PA at High Noon, NYC; Covid Metamorphoses, George Gallery/High Noon, NYC; and Pagan Forest, West Chester University, PA. She is currently included in a group show at Acquavella Galleries' two locations in NYC and Palm Beach, "Unnatural Nature: Post Pop Landscapes" curated by Todd Bradway, editor of the book Landscape Painting Now. Her work has been written about in BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys, and Art News, among other publications.

David Humphrey is a Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA based artist who has shown nationally and internationally. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize among other awards. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by Periscope Publishing in 2010 and a new monograph on his work by Davy Lauterbach was published in 2020. He teaches in the MFA program at Columbia and is represented by the Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, NY.