A long, crescent - shaped lick of
fertile flatlands that stretches more than 450 miles and covers 22,000 square miles (slightly smaller than West Virginia), the Central Valley is nestled between the coastal mountains on the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east.
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Flatlands» at the Whitney Museum (January 14 — April 17) brings together five closely watched painters working in diverse, distinct ways within that
fertile zone: Nina Chanel Abney, Mathew Cerletty, Jamian Juliano - Villani, Caitlin Keogh, and Orion Martin.