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jennifer COATES’ vividly colored, metaphysical paintings utilize the conventions of landscape as an anchor for hallucinatory visions that reference the mind and the body simultaneously. expanses of sky or sea coalesce into pools of thought-like reflection; clouds of geometry warp into an ecstatic vortex; horizons fissure and swell like skin; and intricate vines tangle into knots of energized ganglia. coates contrasts an atmospheric radiance with meticulous detail, iconic directness with allusive abstraction. varied painterly approaches are positioned against each other to create a disjunctive but idealistic experience of place.

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a savage innocence emanates through the pen and ink illustrations of marcel dzama. bears, blood, girls and dismembered heads float through a stark child-like fantasy world of root beer browns and cranberry reds. his narratives are non-linear with characters weaving though his images, often dying and then coming back to life. dzama’s work is that of an adult fairy tale where reality is skewed and violence is expected.

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apostolos MITSIOS: yigal OZERI is an israeli painter that lives and works for the last twenty years in new york. inspired by the pre-raphaelites // artists from nineteenth century england who went out into nature and celebrated it // he has managed with his cinematic portraits to challenge perception and illusion. his latest exhibition at mike weiss gallery in new york is called desire for anima, as a tribute to carl jung’s concept of the unconscious or true inner self of an individual. his models, at the transitional age between youth and maturity, are vulnerable and at the same time real in an almost dreamlike way.

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