EXPO CHICAGO 2026

April 9-12

High Noon is pleased to present a solo booth of new paintings and drawings by Jennifer Coates for EXPO Chicago 2026. Coates’s work combines post-industrial and ancient ruins into mystical landscapes where nature reclaims human history. The works follow a recent visit to the nearly inaccessible ruins of the Mahanoy Plane coal works in Pennsylvania. Fusing eco-feminist sensibility with visionary experience, she reconstructs places through sense and memory— sites of decay, ritual, and renewal. Her improvisational process is akin to divination, as she builds these worlds intuitively: offerings and relic-like fragments emerge from layers of mark-making and accident. Drawing on antiquity, baroque painting, and surrealism, each work stands as an elegy to the entanglement of nature, time, and the sacred.