Watts first made his mark on the New York art scene with a highly acclaimed debut solo show at Gagosian Gallery that the New York Times praised as «exhilarating» and «a knockout.» (museumpublicity.com)
For an African American artist to have two major debut solo shows in Europe in the same year is laudable without a doubt. (contemporaryand.com)
«Cristina de Miguel may have trained at a classically inclined art academy in Seville, Spain, but you'd be hard pressed to recognize that given the exuberant, large - scale paintings in «Absolutely Yours,» the artist's debut solo show with Freight + Volume in New York... [with] scenes that respond either to moments the artist has witnessed in New York, or to the act of painting itself.» (freightandvolume.com)