The New York Times: Daunted by the Sprawling Armory Show? Try These 13 Certified Winners.

Will Heinrich and Walker Mimms, The New York Times, September 5, 2025

Daunted by the Sprawling Armory Show? Try These 13 Certified Winners.

With its crowd-pleasers and safe bets, this big trade show tones it down for an uncertain art market. Our critics sampled the global art scene for these discoveries.Three colorful paintings of varying sizes, showing scenes of flowers.

Daniel Gibson, oil on linen, from left: “Jacumba Nights,” 2025; “Red Earth Green River,” 2024; “Praying Moon w/ Guston Shoes,” 2024.Credit...Daniel Gibson/Nazarian/Curcio; photo by Gus Aronson for The New York Times

 

 

A diptych of nature shapes that suggest branches and red and blue waves.

Fernanda Galvāo, “Tree-snake and gooey-warm-sandy-wind,” 2025. Charcoal, dry pastel, oil stick, and oil on linen.Credit...Fernanda Galvāo/Lyles & King; photo by Gus Aronson for The New York Times

 

Semi-abstracted floral scenes by the Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Gibson seem to depict a world coming apart, with melting skies, lavender flames and no clear way of knowing which way is up. Compare them to the paintings of Fernanda Galvāo at Lyles & King (P14), whose similarly sinuous landscapes in darker, drier colors suggest a moment just slightly further into the apocalypse than Gibson’s. HEINRICH

 

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