Presented by Chozick Family Art Gallery in Partnership with Kristen Lorello
November 1 – December 20, 2025
Located at Kristen Lorello, 23 East 73rd St, New York, NY 10021
Bethesda Terrace, 20 x 16 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
Central Park Heron, 16 x 12 inches, recycled house paint and ink on canvas, 2025
East 78th Street, 11 x 14 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
Drawing at The Met, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
Hot Dog King I, 11 x 14 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and latex on canvas, 2025
Hot Dog King II, 11 x 14 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and ink on canvas, 2025
Ladurée Bag, 16 x 12 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
Present I, 10 x 8 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and latex on canvas, 2025
Present II, 10 x 8 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and ink on canvas, 2025
Courbet’s Nude with Flowering Branch I, 19 x 15 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and ink on canvas board, framed, 2025
Courbet’s Nude with Flowering Branch II, 19 x 15 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and ink on canvas board, framed, 2025
Degas Fans, diptych, 18 x 12 inches, oil, recycled house paint, and ink on canvas, 2025
Chozick Family Art Gallery in partnership with Kristen Lorello is pleased to present a selection of new works by Brooklyn-based painter KB Jones. This solo show follows her participation in a group show at the gallery in August and draws inspiration from quotidian moments and overlooked objects captured in photographs by the artist around the Upper East Side, a place Jones long called home.
This show builds off of and combines two distinct styles Jones has become known for: lush, photorealist oil paintings of unexpected objects, such as her iconic series of trash bag paintings, and cartoon-influenced depictions of domestic scenes using industrial house paint. This show is the first time the artist has combined these two paints, and consequently these two painting styles, on the individual canvases themselves, representing an exciting evolution in the artist’s practice.
Many of the paintings have been conceived of in pairs: a cartoonlike black-and-grey hot dog stand contrasts a naturalistic UES street portrayed in great depth and detail, drawing our attention to the simple pleasures of these classic New York sights and treats; its mirror features an oil paint still-life hot dog stand against a cartoonish, flat, mint-green street background, rendering something familiar deliciously strange. Serving as translations of each other, these pairs of paintings transfer perspectives back and forth and cause us to shift our own. By juxtaposing the high- and lowbrow and swiftly turning the scene on its head, Jones asks us to look again, to look more closely, at what we walk past every day.
The catalyst for the project, and its centerpiece, is a pair of presents, red wrapping paper tied with a silver bow: one features a Minnie Mouse-style bow against a buttery background, the other a bow that looks real enough to tug on against a one-dimensional redness. Through her renderings of a Laduree bag, a line of student backpacks, zoomed-in scenes from Central Park, or frames from the Met, Jones draws our focus to the joy we derive from the banal but decorative objects that dot our daily lives—maybe the wrapping is just as good as what’s waiting inside.
Text by Emma Ramadan