Nathaniel Mary Quinn | Echoes From Copeland
September 10th - October 25th, 2025
Gagosian
Installation View @ the Gallery
541 West 24th Street, New York
Opening: Wednesday, September 10th | 6-8PM
(Via Gagosian) Captivated by the pursuit of self-realization and recovery from ancestral trauma that color Walker’s text, which tells the story of an African American family in rural Georgia over three generations, Quinn renders both real and imagined scenes and characters from the author’s somber narrative through a hopeful lens. In Study for Grange Copeland (2025), vibrant blue, orange, and yellow marks accent a portrait of the Georgia sharecropper against a shadowy background. In the novel, Grange is burdened by racial oppression and poverty. Becoming abusive toward his wife, Margaret, and son, Brownfield, he eventually abandons them to travel north, only to reexperience the very problems he sought to escape. In response, Quinn constructs an idealized reverie from Brownfield’s perspective, Paint-Drawing Study for Down The River (2025), a surreal episode in a father’s search for a better life.
