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Kansas Smeaton has been featured in the latest issue of PUSH magazine as the PUSH CREATIVE. In the interview by Sophia V Lark, the artist discusses finding purpose through TAFE, diversifying Sydney's art scene, and exploring gender and sexuality through Rococo portraiture. To access PUSH magazine, visit the link in our bio. Kansas Smeaton at Marrickville Studio, Sydney, Australia, 2023. Photos by Lachlan Connor. @kansas2.0 #kansasSmeaton #pushmagazine #comagallery

Currently installed on the front entrance of the Chippendale gallery is a vinyl decal titled 'Veil', to mark the beginning and gateway to Jack Lanagan Dunbar's current solo presentation 'Visions.' The gestural imagery of the vinyl is borrowed from the artists paintings and projects Dunbar's memories, thoughts and visions out onto the street. Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Veil, 2023, vinyl decal, edition of 5, dimensions variable. @jacklanagandunbar #JackLanaganDunbar #visions #comagallery

Lu Yang's immersive arcade room is currently on display in the exhibition 'Game Society' at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Game Society is an exhibition that examines how the grammar and aesthetics of video games have influenced contemporary art and visual culture, and permeated our society and daily lives over the five decades since the launch of the first video game. Video games encompass interface design for visual and auditory stimulation, storytelling that spurs the imagination, immersive experiences and social interactions, which makes them the most relevant media form today. 'Game Society' is on view until 10 September, 2023. Installation view, Lu Yang, Arcade, Game Society, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Photo by Hong Cheolki. @luyangasia #LuYang #gamesociety #comagallery

Pictured here is a painting 'Entrance', currently on display at the Chippendale gallery as part of Jack Lanagan Dunbars solo presentation 'Visions’, through 1 July. "The piece marks the start of me bringing perspectival space into my work. How do I get my marks to appear in an actual space? I imagined the canvas as a wall and then cut a doorway in that wall. With the door ajar, all of a sudden space became apparent. The floating sphere—in the lower left quadrant of the piece—and its shadow push the wall plane back, adding further depth. " - Jack Lanagan Dunbar Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Entrance, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 210 x 180 cm / 82 43/64 x 70 55/64 inches. @jacklanagandunbar #JackLanaganDunbar #visions #comagallery

Mia Middleton was recently interviewed by Kayla Curtis-Evans for office magazine. In the interview aptly titled 'Mia Middleton Rewrites Her Own Love Story', the artist talks about her recent exhibition at Roberts Projects, LA, and opens up about the unexpected, the unknown and the unexplored.​​​​​​​​​ "Many of Middleton's visceral oil paintings conjure familiar poignant feelings, feelings of longing, sadness, or comfort - but this choice of emotion is wholly up to the viewer." To read the full article, visit the link in our bio. Mia Middleton, 'Gramble,' 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm / 11.81 x 11.81 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. @miamiddleton #officemagazinenyc #MiaMiddleton #comagallery

Continuing in the gallery is Visions, Jack Lanagan Dunbar's third solo presentation of a series of new works with COMA, through 1 July. The paintings provide handholds, grips for the audience. They are the result of many things converging; moments taken from sketchbooks, memories recorded as notes, research material and discoveries made on his journey through the burgeoning virtual arm of his practice. All these things were added to the cauldron and each work emerged from the bubbling mess a distinct conjuring all of its own. Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Archipelago, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 210 x 180 cm 82 43/64 x 70 55 x 64 inches. @jacklanagandunbar #jacklanagandunbar #visions #comagallery

COMA is pleased to announce the representation of Renée Estée (b. 1993). The artist will be presenting her debut exhibition with the gallery this coming July, taking place at COMA Darlinghurst. Estée will also be included in the galleries' presentation at the 2023 edition of Sydney Contemporary. Estée is an Australian-born, New York-based artist. The artist is a recent Hunter MFA Graduate and previously graduated with a BFA Honors (First Class Honors) from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Aus) in 2016. Linking ideas and imagery of the Australian Outback, Hauntology, Orphism and contemplations of afterlife beliefs, Renée’s practice highlights myth-making and rituals surrounding mourning, celebration and commemoration. Operating as visual love letters and epitaphs, her large-scale oil paintings coalesce figuration and abstraction to conjure spaces where she can commune with the deceased and contend with future loss. Taking on apparitional characteristics; figures materialize from layered, loose, gestural mark-making that merge in and out of their surrounding environments, whilst animals wander in the peripheries, simultaneously observing departures and transformations taking place. Carving out spaces from thick impasto marks alongside thin washes and surface stains, Renée considers painting's ability to omit and transfigure. Renée Estée in her studio in New York, United States of America, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and COMA, Sydney. @renee_estee #reneeestee #comagallery

Pictured here is a painting currently included in Jack Lanagan Dunbar's latest solo presentation with COMA, titled Visions, on view through 1 July. Here is what the artist has to say on this particular piece: "Mort is the note blown on a hunting horn when the quarry is killed. Dead. Laid out. This painting nods to Holbein and his anamorphic skull. It too depicts a skull when viewed from the right position. You must lie down, head toward the gallery wall and look up at the piece from its bottom right corner. From here the skull and a butterfly emerge. You are in the position of the quarry. You are laid out. An unusual position to be viewing art in. A prime position in which to contemplate your own mortality." Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Mort, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 150 cm 70 7/8 x 59 1/16 inches. @jacklanagandunbar #jacklanagandunbar #visions #comagallery

COMA would like to remind you of our upcoming solo exhibition by Jack Lanagan Dunbar, 'Visions', opening this evening, Friday, 2 June, from 6 - 8pm. This exhibition will be Lanagan Dunbar's third presentation with the gallery and is taking place at our Chippendale location, 2/27-39 Abercrombie St, Chippendale NSW 2008.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Installation view, Jack Lanagan Dunbar: Visions, COMA, Chippendale, Sydney, 2023. @jacklanagandunbar #jacklanagandunbar #visions #comagallery

Fabian Ramírez is presenting a new body of paintings and sculptures at NARANJO 141, Mexico City, on view from 27 May to 25 June, 2023.​​​​​​​​​ Titled ‘A Diestra Y Siniestra’, the flourishing abstract brushwork records moments of revelation that resist easy categorisation. Ramírez experiments with wood, flame and encaustic elements to balance opposites and reference the contradictions of historical canons that seemingly coexist. Images: Installation view, Fabian Ramírez, A Diestra Y Siniestra, NARANJO 141, Mexico City, 2023. Fabian Ramírez, studio image, NARANJO 141, Mexico City, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and NARANJO 141, Mexico City. @fabian_ramz @naranjo141.cdmx #FabianRamirez #adiestraysiniestra #comagallery

COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition, titled Visions, by Jack Lanagan Dunbar (b. 1988), opening Friday, 2 June, from 6-8pm in the Chippendale gallery. This is the artist’s third solo presentation with COMA and their first in this gallery space. ​​​​​​​​​ Visions builds upon Lanagan Dunbar's previous suite of paintings he presented with COMA at Melbourne Art Fair in 2022, documenting the artist’s crawl back from the brink of abstraction. Here he continues his pursuit of the vignette and remerging of symbols and images that have become dominant motifs throughout his practice. Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Lavender II, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 150 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and COMA, Sydney.

COMA would like to congratulate Mikey Yates on his inclusion in the Columbus Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition titled 'PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection'. 'PRESENT ’23' unveils the second wave of gifts comprising the Columbus Museum of Art’s Scantland Collection, generously donated by the Scantland Family. Yates’ painting titled 'Billy Journaling in Batangas', 2021, will be featured amongst 33 works by 32 artists, ranging from painting to textile to showcase the diversity and individuality of the contemporary art practice.​​​​​​​​​ 'PRESENT ’23' will be on view from 8 June 2023. Mikey Yates will be presenting a new body of work in his first solo exhibition with COMA at the close of 2023 in our Chippendale space. Image: Portrait of Mikey Yates. Courtesy of Cactus Moon Studio. @mikey_yates #MikeyYates #ColumbusMuseum #ScantlandCollection