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Warm Up features large aluminum horizons, a suite of new paintings, and marble works depicting close-ups of down jackets. Utilitarian in nature and instantly recognizable, these coats are marketed as hi-tech, fashionable outerwear and consist of goose down and polyester layers held in place by parallel seams that create the eponymous puff. Farrand’s paintings frame details of coat construction with puff rows providing dozens of pillowy folds in the fabric, each rendered with care. Farrand creates closely cropped compositions absent of sleeves, zippers, or bodily form, transforming a pervasive …