Emily Coan

LSS Paris

“Nightshades”

2025 April 26 to May 31

Nightshades marks the progress of Emily Coan’s ongoing Spider Silk series with a continued narrative of the womens’ quest through this perilous realm. What was golden and earthy – an experience of conscious participation with community, nature, and creation by the light of the sun will fade into night. An exploration of color, the "Nightshades" paintings are jewel toned – phthalos, viridan, and vermilion. Through these twilight scenes, the sisters move into the night adorned in the shrouds woven with love and protection during the bright sunlight. As Coan describes: “The work is over. After toiling by day to weave garments made of spider silk, the sisters wait in anticipation of their somnambulate journey."

Emily Coan (b. 1991 St. Petersburg, Florida) is an artist based in the Hudson Valley, NY. In 2013, she received her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Florida and moved to New York City as a painter in 2015. Compositionally complex, multilayered oil paintings are the vehicle for Coan’s storytelling, conjuring a world where female protagonists confront femininity, womens’ labor, and power. The work is set in fairytale-esque environments inspired by the Hudson Valley. Coan’s work has been featured in Interview Magazine, T Magazine, Artnet, Whitewall, New American Paintings, and even Playboy. She has recently exhibited in group shows with Sargent’s Daughters, (Lost Angeles), Nino Mier (New York City), de boer (Los Angeles), Gowen Contemporary (Geneva), Kutlesa Gallery (Goldau), and Palazzo Monti (Brescia). Her fifth solo show, Spider Silk at DIMIN (New York), happened in 2024. Coan’s work has been included in an exhibition at Pond Society in Shanghai in March 2025.