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October 2, 2025October 3, 2025, by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Double Vision: One Artist, Two Solo Shows, Double the Stripes

Portrait of the artist, photo courtesy of Elizabeth Haynes

In early September, painter Deborah Zlotsky pulled off what few artists even attempt: two solo shows opening at once, on opposite sides of Manhattan. The Light Gets In filled McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, while Genealogies took over Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea. A double dip in one city, on one calendar page. It might sound like a scheduling accident, yet standing in front of her candy-striped canvases, the simultaneity feels deliberate. Zlotsky thrives on overlap: order brushing against disorder, geometry trembling at its edges, patterns that carry memory while stumbling into the present.

September 30, 2025September 30, 2025, by John Mendelsohn

Sue and Al Ravitz of 57W57ARTS

IN CONVERSATION

Sue and Al Ravitz with paintings by Chris Martin and Robert Swain. Photo by Bill Gentle

Sue and Al Ravitz have run the project space 57W57ARTS over past eleven years, with a focus on reductive and conceptual art. Located in Al’s psychiatric offices in Midtown Manhattan, they see their gallery as a way to show the art they like, and to create a community. 57W57ARTS has presented the work of close to 200 artists, mounting approximately eight shows per year, each consisting of several one-person exhibitions. This September, a new series began with five one-person shows.

September 23, 2025September 22, 2025, by Claire Haik

Art Spiel Picks: Philly Exhibitions in September 2025

Highlights

Maren Less, The Black Goat, Acrylic On Linen, image courtesy of Gross McCleaf Gallery

This autumn in the Philadelphia area, we are spotlighting three painting exhibitions which explore intricate connections between people, places, memories, and dreams. In Passing Through. at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Maren Less creates vibrant paintings that blend human and animal forms into unexpected, symbolic narratives. At Arcadia University, Hiro Sakaguchi’s Landscapes of a Restless Mind is a collection of muted neon paintings with intricate line work in which daydreams and global issues swirl together. Finally, in Los De Aqui, Henry Morales’ solo show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, offers a tender look at everyday life, using unified colors, collected soil, and newspaper clippings to emphasize the deep bond between people and their places. Check out these lively shows exploring empathy and the human experience through three distinctive styles and voices.

September 22, 2025September 20, 2025, by Etty Yaniv

Caroline Burton: The Back of the Moon

In Conversation

*The Back of the Moon*, Caroline Burton, view 2, on view at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in the Christine DeVitt Exhibition Hall in Lubbock, TX, photo courtesy of Taylor Ernst

What does it take to move an exhibition from one institution to another, and how does it change along the way? Caroline Burton’s The Back of the Moon began at The Clara M. Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, where curator T. Michael Martin first organized the presentation. Recognizing both the impact of Burton’s large-scale works and the practicality of transporting them rolled in tubes, Martin developed opportunities for the exhibition to travel. This led to a partnership with the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) in Lubbock, Texas, where curator Taylor Ernst re-envisioned the show for the Christine DeVitt Exhibition Hall. With each venue offering its own curatorial approach and installation design, The Back of the Moon continues to evolve as it moves between sites. In the following conversation, curators T. Michael Martin and Taylor Ernst discuss the process of shaping this traveling exhibition.

September 18, 2025September 14, 2025, by Taylor Bielecki

Maya Perry with introspections within The Moon Takes Shape of an Outsider’s Light

Maya Perry, *The moon takes shape of an outsiders light*, 2025, Water-Soluble Graphite and Watercolor on canvas, 58 x 62 in., photo courtesy of Taylor Bielecki

Maya Perry’s solo exhibition at RAINRAIN gallery is both tender and powerful, full of tranquility and wonder. It is a conversation on humanness and existence. With the drawings, we see snapshots of thoughts, memories, feelings, and with the paintings we see narratives and longer moments of growing, returning, and becoming. This exhibition navigates the spaces where memory fractures and re-forms, dealing with the complications of the past.

September 16, 2025September 14, 2025, by Anna Shukeylo

Painters to Watch: The Armory Show 2025 Recap

Installation View, Doron Lanberg at Victoria Miro, courtesy of the writer

With the excitement of the art fairs behind us it’s time to take one look back at The Armory Show and note a couple artists to watch this year who clearly stood out in the whirlwind of that weekend.

September 15, 2025September 14, 2025, by Eva Zanardi

Continental Presence: Europe’s Defining Voice at The Armory Show 2025

The Armory Show 2025 – Daniel Zeller “**Inference**,” 2015, Mixed media, Approx. 95 x. , Pierogi Gallery. Photo by Eva Zanardi

September in New York is a sensory crescendo—fashion, tennis, and art converge in a city that thrives on spectacle. At the center of it all, The Armory Show 2025 returned to the Javits Center from September 4–7, hosting over 230 exhibitors from 35 countries and drawing more than 50,000 visitors. This year’s edition, the second since its acquisition by Frieze, was slightly smaller than last year’s—but no less ambitious. Dealers reported strong momentum from VIP day onward, especially for works at lower price points, while higher-priced pieces moved at a measured pace. Many noted a noticeably younger crowd—engaged, curious, and eager to discover.

September 2, 2025September 2, 2025, by Art Spiel

Reclamation: Holland Tunnel Revisited in Newburgh

previewing

*Holland Tunnel Newburgh opens its sculpture garden. Julie Lindell, Everything, 2025, 144x144x144 in. Mixed media, found objects. Photo courtesy of Julie Lindell*

When artist Alexandra Limpert invited Janet Rutkowski to co-curate Reclamation in honor of her longtime friend and Holland Tunnel founder Paulien Lethen, Rutkowski accepted without hesitation. Although she had just finished curating and exhibiting in several projects, she embraced the challenge with what she describes as her “devil-may-care” approach. The exhibition’s title emerged quickly, reflecting her interest in the idea of recovery and renewal.

September 1, 2025August 29, 2025, by Art Spiel

Holly Wong: Full Circle at Slate Contemporary Gallery

Previewing Exhibition

Body of Light, Textile and LED. Photo: John Janca

“Coming full circle and making whole” is how Holly Wong describes her process of repair—working with memory, reassembling fragments, and layering paint, fabric, and light into new forms. On view at SLATE Contemporary in Oakland from September 5 through October 11, 2025, Full Circle is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. It brings together collaged paintings on shaped aluminum and wood panels, mixed media drawings, wall-based fiber and LED installations, and a heat-molded acrylic assemblage, presenting a mid-career survey of her work.

August 19, 2025August 19, 2025, by Stephen Wozniak

Jonathan Syme Coaxes Spirit from Matter at Royale Projects

*Jonathan Syme, Receding, Shy Daylight, 2024, oil on canvas in artist frame, 43” x 37”. Courtesy of Royale Projects*

Jonathan Syme paints like someone coaxing spirit from matter—a phrase that sounds mystical until you’re standing in front of the work, where it becomes simply descriptive. As restless as they seem, his canvases don’t argue or perform; they resonate, like a vibration passed through the soles of your feet. Thick skeins of paint are unearthed, revealing strata in a geologic dig of intuition. There’s a kind of archaeology to the gesture: gouges, stains, and eruptions of impasto build a type of sedimentary record, chronicling attention. The eye slows down, and with it, thought.