John McDevitt King, After Afternoon, 2024, Encaustic on Wood Panel, 48″ x 36″

John McDevitt King: OUTSKIRTS featured in Sharon Butler’s NYC Selected Gallery Guide: June 2025

June, academics’ favorite month, is here. I’m looking forward to checking out Smack Mellon’s“Remains to be seen,” a group show that brings together nine emerging artists whose practices find meaning in waste. Artist Austin Eddy has curated a star-studded exhibition called “A Movable Feast” at Halsey Mckay’s Greenpoint outpost. Abbey Lloyd has a solo at Ptolemy, a newish gallery in Queens. I’m looking forward to seeing some aggressive abstraction, with Iva Gueorguieva’s solo at Derek Eller and Erika Ranee’s showat Klaus von Nichtssagend firmly in mind. For a more meditative approach, check out São Paolo-based artist Deni Lantz at High Noon. The bookish nostalgists among us are liable to treasure Louise Despont’s large-scale pencil drawings on canvas, styled “Afterlifes,” at Nicelle Beauchene. On June 14, make time to march in the big “NO KINGS” happening at Bryant Park. Creative signs are de rigueur — get to work!

— Sharon Butler

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