Adrian Coleman

Studio Street Address:: Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts Studios / 540 President Street

Artist Statement: 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. His recent 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. Coleman is currently working on a new body of work that explores the rear yards of his Brooklyn block at night. The image of a dark interior wilderness is related to personal loss.

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