The Artnet Gallery Network hosts galleries around the world, and is constantly being updated with new and intriguing art and artists that you can easily browse from your own computer. From Venice to New York and beyond, the world’s leading art galleries are always just a few clicks away.
Here at the Artnet Gallery Network we are continually on the lookout for exciting new additions, which we highlight here every month. Below, we’ve rounded up five artists that stood out from the crowd, all working in their own unique figurative style.
Painter and performance artist Thew Smoak (b. 1988) received their MFA from Yale University in 2022 and is undertaking a teaching fellowship with the Yale Norfolk School of Art this year. Also this year, Smoak has been the subject of three solo exhibitions, including with New York’s Latitude Gallery. Currently based between New York and Connecticut, Smoak’s work has a distinct element of otherworldly melancholy, achieved through a muted and dark color palette and broad swaths of empty spaces within their compositions. Through both the works’ execution and content, Smoak is able to engage with ideas around psychological space, temporal transience, and self-reflection.
