Jennifer Coates at Freight and Volume Gallery

New York painter Jennifer Coates conflates consumption of art and food in new paintings featuring donuts, bagels, TV dinners and more. At center, this towering stack of pasta, cheese and sauce melts into an abstract painting evoking bubbling lava or a swirling face, playfully signaling the fetishistic power of food. (At Freight and Volume Gallery through April 16th).

Jennifer Coates, Lasagna, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, 2016.