Mat Gleason's Latest Show to Feature Alan Watt's Inspired Painting

For this abundant group show, curator and writer Mat Gleason invited 474 artists to reinterpret their favorite books on a nine-by-six-inch art board, emulating the standard size of a trade paperback. The results are decidedly diverse, ranging from Jorge R. Gutierrez’s painting of a manic matador for Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Jessicka Addams’s poignant depiction of The Velveteen Rabbit (1922) by Margery Williams to Man One’s gilded graffiti rendition of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). Sometimes illustrative, sometimes enigmatic, each painting balances the literary text itself with the artist’s individual relationship to it.

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