High Noon is pleased to present Jennifer Coates’s debut with the gallery. The title, Toxic Halo, is a phrase from a song written by the artist called “Ruin.” Sunlight hits the flesh, the air repeats your name, like a toxic halo around me. In her paintings, radiant halos surround figures and trees, amplifying the color relationships between shapes and their environment. Coates’s color choices-- phosphorescent green and jaundice yellow combined with synthetic pink and corporate lavender-- are both glowing and sickly toxic. She manipulates the inherent trans-parent properties of acrylic paint to achieve a surprising and unique luminescence.