The Subversive Landscapes of Joan Nelson

New Works: Joan Nelson
Courtesy of the artist and Adams and Ollman

Joan Nelson, Untitled, 2019-20. Spray enamel and acrylic ink on acrylic sheet. 24 x 24 in.

Adams and Ollman is pleased to present a new body of work by Joan Nelson as the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery. For nearly four decades, Joan Nelson has been reverently and subversively painting landscapes. Since the start of her career in New York in the 1980s, Nelson’s singular focus has been on the awe and the artifice of the tradition within which she is working. The new works—painted in reverse on plexiglass—feature mountain ranges, waterfalls, rainbows, expansive skies, and epic vistas, building on Nelson’s interests in the experience and depiction of the landscape, as well as in the materiality of paint and the history of painting.

Event Information
Start Date: November 7, 2020
End Date: December 19, 2020
Venue: Adams and Ollman

New Works: Joan Nelson