Second Street Gallery is pleased to present What’s Coming Is Already On Its Way, a solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Barnaby Whitfield, in Dové Gallery from October 4 - November 22, 2024.

Barnaby Whitfield’s masterfully executed oil paintings are an imagined portrait of an American subculture where queer autonomy is achieved through regenerative agricultural practices. It is historical painting as motif to present another newly coded language through wary subjects imbued with the beauty of individuality and action — bodies busied by hope and bolstered by acceptance. Portraits of a strength not yet defined by collective consensus.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Blake Sirach and Jonathan Nguyen, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Installation photography by Stacey Evans

Meet the Exhibiting Artist

Barnaby Whitfield
@barnabywhitfield

Barnaby Whitfield was born in Miami, Florida in 1970. He has exhibited throughout the US and Internationally for over two decades. The artist currently lives and works in Highland, New York. Recent exhibitions include the Miami based solo show “My Bones To Blossom” with Spinello Projects, a three person booth at the NADA art fair with New York’s Fierman Gallery and a group exhibition “The Last Judgement” with Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

View available artworks from the exhibition HERE. Artwork prices are available on request — please contact the gallery by email (info@secondstreetgallery.org) or visit Second Street Gallery in person.


Midnight Offering, 2024
Oil on linen
12 x 12 inches

The Volunteer, 2023
Oil on linen
12 x 9 inches

An English Bletting, 2023
Oil on linen
14 x 14 inches

Ocala National, 2023
Oil on linen
24 x 14 inches

The Villages, 2023
Oil on canvas
52 x 30 inches

Scotch Rose, 2023
Oil on linen
20 x 14 inches

Tea Stained Sad Cowboy, 2023
Oil on linen
12 x 9 inches

Tea Stained without a crown in a desolate town, 2023
Oil on linen
12 x 9 inches

Tea Stained Panicked Complacency, 2023
Oil on linen
12 x 9 inches

Cosmic Cherry, 2023
Oil on linen
24 x 20 inches

Tea Stained and doing them in with my grief again, 2023
Oil on linen
12 x 9 inches

Harvest Home, 2024
Oil on linen
16 x 16 inches