In lieu of the traditional artist or gallery statement, a five-line poem describing a closeness to nature that allows one to ‘hear the grass grow’ introduces Brooklyn painter Jordan Kasey’s oil paintings at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. The new work features the artist’s typically monumental people lounging in the grass on a sunny day or forming a crush of bodies in a family group hug. Just as one pink flower provides privacy and perhaps shade to the figure in the foreground of ‘Meadow’ pictured here, Kasey portrays the natural world – even in this surreally stylized manifestation – as providing peace and rejuvenation. (On view through June 20th).
