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Matthew Watson's "Gallerist’s Residence, Brescia, Visited in 2016" features a refined interplay of soft pastel colors and geometric shapes. The composition includes a glass surface with zigzagging brass elements and a marble-like texture, creating an elegant interior scene. Watson's style combines realism and abstraction, rendering a serene yet structured environment. This work reflects his exploration of social connections and material culture within the art world. ...
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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. ...