Emily Coan is the painter to watch

The Art Daddy

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...Here are the booths to keep an eye on if you want to glide through the fair like you’ve already read the playbook.  

 

DIMIN x Emily Coan Booth P47 

 

DIMIN is serving one of the most essential presentations of the fair: a solo booth of Emily Coan’s Spider Silk series. Let’s be clear—Coan isn’t just good, she’s one of the best female painters working today, full stop. Her canvases are lush, jewel-toned landscapes of myth and memory, where threads of labor, desire, and storytelling knot together in ways that feel both timeless and razor-sharp contemporary. The scale is ambitious, the brushwork is commanding, and the surfaces hum with a kind of cinematic drama that could put half this fair in the bargain bin. He is also part of the daddy family.

 

We love DIMIN’s confidence in letting her take over the space—it’s a reminder that true vision doesn’t need filler. If you only have the stamina for one deep look today, make it this booth. Daddy’s calling it now: Emily Coan is the painter to watch, and DIMIN knows exactly what they’re doing by giving her the stage.

September 5, 2025