Michael Kohn Gallery is delighted to return to the Dallas Art Fair with a three-part presentation that focuses on the tradition of figurative painting, West Coast Pop, and the contemporary practice of Indian painter, Siji Krishnan.

The presentation brings together three painters, Amoako Boafo, William Brickel, and Heidi Hahn each with a unique command of figuration. While Boafo captures the character of his subjects through gestures of his direct touch, Brickel employs anatomical exaggeration to communicate the psychological undertones of his compositions. Hahn’s gestural bodies and saturated canvases push the definitions of canon forward into territories that cross into abstraction.

Representing the West Coast Pop movement is a selection of paintings and a sculpture by Richard Pettibone and Christopher Wool. Pettibone’s intimately-sized paintings that replicate iconic images by Roy Lichtenstein and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres are presented alongside a historical enamel work by Wool who is recognized for his experimentation with printmaking techniques.

Rounding out the booth is a dedicated exhibition of new works by Kerala-based painter, Siji Krishnan. The group of oil on linen and watercolor rice paper works present Krishnan’s intricately detailed family paintings and emotional landscapes. The ensemble of work, recently presented at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, captures the artist’s delicate impressions of life in the vivid countryside of southern India.