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The artwork "Artists' Residence, Grand Street, Visited in 2025" by Matthew Watson showcases a carefully composed arrangement of glass and ceramic vessels, featuring vibrant reds, greens, and transparent elements against a muted background. The precise rendering highlights the interplay of light and shadow, exuding a sense of realism. Watson’s style blends social portraiture with still life, offering a commentary on cultural and economic exchanges. By depicting everyday objects, Watson explores the connections and narratives within artistic and social circles. ...
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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. ...