Nick Ryan Gallery presents a two-person exhibition by renowned painters John Gibson & Andrew Watel.
John Gibson earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980 and completed his postgraduate studies at Yale. He had his first solo show at the University of Massachusetts in 1984 and began participating in group exhibitions in Boston and New York in the late 1980s. Gibson’s work has been recognized in prominent publications such as the Boston Globe, the Partisan Review, and The New Yorker. His paintings are held in numerous corporate and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the University of Massachusetts, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the New York Public Library.
Andrew Watel grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He received an undergraduate degree in Painting from The University of California at San Francisco in 1977 and a Master of Fine Art from Yale University in 1983. Upon graduating from Yale, he moved to New York City where he independently pursued painting and teaching. In 1993, as a founding member, he established and developed The Painting Center, an independent non-profit artist run space. He curated several shows there, including the work of such ‘painter’s painters’ as Albert York and Jake Berthot. Twenty-eight years later, The Center remains viable today and offers artists alternative exhibition space. From 2006 until 2017 he taught as an Adjunct Professor of Painting and Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Here he developed his own curricula for beginning and advanced painting and drawing, led seminars and supervised independent projects.
In 2018 he moved from New York to Kansas City to pursue painting full time.
