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Selected Gallery Guide: June 2025

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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Two Coats of Paint Recommends Visiting Anita Rogers Gallery for Phil Hale’s ANTICLIMB

Anita Rogers Gallery: Phil Hale, Sketch for ANTICLIMB, 2025, Graphite on found paper, 25″ x 25″

NYC Selected Gallery Guide: April, 2025

From my perspective, April has become a prime month for exhibitions in NYC, sandwiched between March’s print and photo fairs and the May Madness of the big spring fairs. The city’s brick-and-mortar art galleries take center stage, and there’s no shortage of engaging exhibitions. I’m looking forward to Rick Briggs’s offbeat abstraction at Satchel Projects in Chelsea, Carolyn Case’s “wild domestic” paintings in Asya Geisberg’s temporary Cortlandt Alley space in Tribeca, and Dustin Hodges’ new work at 15 Orient, also in Tribeca. Artist-writer Mira Dayal has what tracks as an austere, smart solo at Spencer Brownstone. On the opposite side of the emotional spectrum, “Love Poems,” a big, heartfelt group show curated by Chris Martin, is on view at Anton Kern. With due respect to Eliot, April has become one of my favorite months. I’ll see you out there.

— Sharon Butler

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AD 275 | Tomas Watson

Artist Decoded by Yoshino

Tomas Watson (b.1971) is a British artist who has lived and worked in Greece since 1994. He studied at the Slade School of Art in London.

In 1998, he won the BP Portrait Award and was subsequently commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint the author John Fowles. This portrait is in their permanent collection.

He is represented by the Jill George Gallery in London (www.jillgeorgegallery.co.uk) and Accesso Galleria in Tuscany (www.accessogalleria.com)

 

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

– Tomas recounts where his artistic journey began (00:02:11)

– The importance of mentorship (00:07:46)

– Tomas’s experiences at Slade University in London from 1990 – 1994 (00:09:28)

– Discussing mark-making (00:14:42)

– Having the courage to trust your artistic vision and perspective (00:26:22)

– Tomas winning the BP Portrait Award in 1998 (00:35:33)

– Cultivating a creative community and creating collective dialogue (00:43:35)

– Tomas discusses his process of creating carborundum etchings and using various other mediums (00:54:01)

– Tomas speaks about the Sigri Arts Retreat, the artist retreat he co-founded with his partner, Cindy Camatsos, in Lesvos, Greece (01:10:56)

– Living alternative lifestyles, staying patient, and allowing oneself to grow over time (01:18:36)

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