Though if a kitchen and a plate of macaroni cheese are a phantasm, maybe, just maybe, they are more exciting than when they stretch before you as your settled and invariable fate. - A.S. Byatt

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High Noon’s new location at 124 Forsyth Street will open with Family Style, Daina Mattis’s second exhibition with the gallery, consisting of experimental paintings, food, sculpture, and design. Originally scheduled to open in April, the show’s content takes on new meaning in a post-quarantine New York City, as all the work is connected through the compulsion to domesticate nature by bringing the Great Outdoors into our homes through imitation, alteration, and possession. Mattis postures this emulation of nature through faux-marbleized paintings, flocked floral wallpaper, a modified drop-leaf table, and ivy wreathes around university brands reimagined as cookies created from production molds.