Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, a group exhibition presented concurrently at both its New York City and Palm Beach locations from April 21 to June 10 and April 15 to May 25, respectively. The exhibitions are curated by Todd Bradway, editor of Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism (D.A.P., 2019), and feature works by 28 contemporary artists.

Artists in the New York City exhibition include Henni Alftan, Hurvin Anderson, Gideon Appah, Jules de Balincourt, Hayley Barker, Adrian Berg, Jennifer Coates, Ann Craven, Lois Dodd, Maureen Gallace, Sky Glabush, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Daniel Heidkamp, David Hockney, Yvonne Jacquette, Jon Joanis, Yuka Kashihara, Alex Katz, Makiko Kudo, Patricia Leite, John McAllister, William Monk, Laurie Nye, Nicolas Party, Lisa Sanditz, Wayne Thiebaud, Nicole Wittenberg, and Matthew Wong.

Artists in the Palm Beach exhibition include Jennifer Coates, Lois Dodd, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Daniel Heidkamp, Jon Joanis, Yuka Kashihara, Makiko Kudo, Lisa Sanditz, Wayne Thiebaud, and Nicole Wittenberg.

As viewed through the lens of Unnatural Nature, it is clear that the genre of landscape painting continues to thrive in the 21st century. This exhibition is influenced and based, in part, on Bradway’s research for Landscape Painting Now. Presenting myriad conceptual and formal approaches for picturing our natural world, the works on view are united in their highly stylized approach to depicting landscape, as well as a hyperreal sense of color, form, and perspective, which together serve to create heightened and vivid representations of our modern world.  The exhibition features a diverse group of paintings, including those that skew towards more traditional, perceptually driven, though often distorted,  portrayals of our surroundings to others that exhibit a more abstracted, expressive flatness, connected by their shared mediation with modern modes of perception, such as photography, the iPhone, billboards, video games, and television.  The subjects of these works themselves are as diverse as the methods to depict them, ranging from dreamlike forest scenes, moody nocturnals, and dramatic aerial views of the world, to perspective shifting cityscapes and hallucinatory, yet melancholic, views of the sea.

Todd Bradway is a curator, editor, and artist based in New York. In 2019, he edited the survey Landscape Painting Now (D.A.P., 2019), which is currently being developed into a large-scale exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art for May 2025. During his twenty years working in publishing he has edited and produced over fifty books, including Suzanne Jackson (DelMonico Books, forthcoming 2023), Alexis Rockman: Works on Paper (Damiani, 2021), Roger Clay Palmer (KMEC Books, 2021), Michael Kagan: I Was There When It Happened (Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019), Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood (Rizzoli/Rose Art Museum, 2015), Emilie Brzezinski: The Lure of the Forest (D.A.P., 2014), and Vincent Desiderio: Paintings (D.A.P./Marlborough Gallery, 2005).