Artists' Residence, Grand Street, Visited in 2025, 202538.1 x 47cmSign in to view price
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Material
oil on copper in artist's frame
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
Matthew Watson's "Artists' Residence, Grand Street, Visited in 2025" presents a refined composition featuring vibrant glass vessels, primarily in red and green, against a minimalist backdrop. The meticulously detailed glassware juxtaposes soft, neutral tones, creating an intriguing visual contrast. This realistic portrayal reflects Watson's style of turning everyday objects into complex social portraits. Through delicate brushwork, he blurs the line between object and subject, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationships and cultural narratives within domestic spaces. Watson's work highlights the intertwined social and economic threads linking art and everyday life. ...
Matthew Watson makes exquisitely rendered paintings that are a complex form of social portraiture. His portraits of artists, writers, curators and collectors, interiors, art objects, books and other cultural ephemera, soften the border between subject and object. Watson inserts himself into a fluid chain of relations –– social, economic, power –– frequently working on commission or by invitation to start a painting, in turn producing objects that relay back into the very flows that led to their construction. ...
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