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Wishing all the artists, galleries, collectors, and curators an incredible Hamptons Fine Art Fair this year.

Last year, Bushwick Gallery was proud to make its HFAF debut with a two-booth presentation featuring an exceptional group of artists: Beth Shaw, Gina Keatley, Jon Sarkin, Roger W. Hsia, Sherihan Khalil, and Kelly Nicole Sullivan.

It was an unforgettable milestone filled with inspiring conversations, new collectors, and remarkable artwork. I’m excited to see Bushwick Gallery continue its journey, and I look forward to cheering on the new owner as they bring the gallery back to HFAF next year.

Wishing everyone exhibiting this year a fantastic fair and continued success.

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Paul K's guitar hangs now between the turn table and the Big Yellow Chair--alongside a drawing and a painting by Jon Sarkin and Radford Brown, respectively, realizing a triptych of fallen heroes whom I am honored to have called my friends. 💛🖤💛
#paulk #radfordbrown #jonsarkin #jonsarkinart #paulkandtheweathermen

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As we close our May Member of the Month feature, we reflect on Jon Sarkin’s extraordinary and singular body of work. His drawings stand as records of an internal world rendered visible through relentless mark-making and accumulation. While his path to artmaking was unconventional, his output has found resonance within broader conversations about outsider art, cognition, and visual expression. Sarkin’s work continues to challenge how we understand drawing itself, expanding it into a space of endurance, intensity, and unfiltered creation.

Jon Sarkin, JS-2018-902, 2018 © 2026 Estate of Jon Sarkin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

#JonSarkin #ARS #MemberOfTheMonth #May #ARSMoM ArtistsRightsSociety

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As May’s Member of the Month, Jon Sarkin’s work also reflects a unique relationship to communication and interpretation. His drawings often incorporate fragments of words, numbers, and diagrams that seem to reference everything from popular culture to scientific systems. These elements are not arranged hierarchically but instead coexist in dense, non-linear structures. The result is a body of work that challenges conventional reading, asking viewers to navigate meaning through repetition, association, and intuition rather than clarity or narrative order.

Jon Sarkin, JS-2021-8308, 2021 © 2026 Estate of Jon Sarkin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

#JonSarkin #ARS #MemberOfTheMonth #May #ARSMoM

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May’s Member of the Month, Jon Sarkin, is known for his intensely detailed drawings filled with overlapping text, fragmented imagery, and layered symbols. His pages often feel like maps of thought, where language and image collapse into one continuous field. Sarkin’s practice is driven by repetition and compulsion, resulting in works that are both visually overwhelming and deeply personal. Rather than following traditional composition, he builds surfaces through accumulation, creating a kind of visual record of perception, memory, and internal dialogue.

Jon Sarkin, JS-2019-1374, 2019 © 2026 Estate of Jon Sarkin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

#JonSarkin #ARS #MemberOfTheMonth #May #ARSMoM

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This week marks the launch of the Catalogue Raisonné for ARS member Jon Sarkin, a new digital archive dedicated to his life’s work. Following a cerebellar stroke in 1989 that ended his career as a chiropractor, Sarkin developed a daily creative practice that continued for over thirty years, producing an extraordinary body of approximately 20,000 text-rich drawings, paintings, and collages. The new catalog.jonsarkin.com brings this archive together through AI-assisted transcription, visual search, and scholarly framing by Colin Rhodes.

The launch coincides with two exhibitions opening this week: a permanent installation of Sarkin’s portraits at The Pingry School in New Jersey, his alma mater, unveiled May 7, 2026, and his presentation at Art Brut Biënnale 2026 in Hengelo, Netherlands, running May 9–17 at the historic Industrieplein 3. Together, these presentations frame Sarkin’s practice within both intimate origin and international dialogue.

© 2026 Estate of Jon Sarkin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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This May, we’re highlighting our Member of the Month, Jon Sarkin, an artist whose unconventional path to artmaking has become central to his practice. Sarkin did not begin as a traditionally trained artist. After a life-altering medical event in the 1980s, he began compulsively drawing and creating dense, intricate works on paper. What emerged was an entirely self-developed visual language, marked by repetition, accumulation, and an overwhelming sense of interior urgency. His work resists easy categorization, existing somewhere between drawing, writing, diagram, and personal archive.

Jon Sarkin, JS-2017-1582, 2017 © 2026 Estate of Jon Sarkin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

#JonSarkin #ARS #MemberOfTheMonth #May #ARSMoM #ArtistsRightsSociety

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Bushwick Gallery at Hamptons Fine Art Fair last year was not quiet.

It was a debut that landed.

Across two booths, we brought together:
Gina Keatley
Beth Shaw
Jon Sarkin
Roger W. Hsia
Sherihan Khalil
Kelly Nicole Sullivan

A tight presentation. Material driven. Emotion forward. No filler.

The response was immediate. Press picked it up.
Dan’s Papers and James Lane Post both covered the work, recognizing what we already knew, that the energy translated beyond Bushwick.

We did not go to play it safe.
We went to show what happens when artists trust the work.

And people stayed with it.

#BushwickGallery #HFAF #untamedmoderns #HamptonsArt #ginakeatley

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This was the moment I met Sarkin 13 years ago today. Got the large one on the right by being ahead in line of M Glovsky who also wanted it. Great night.

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Warm up after a day at Gloucester’s So Salty with an easy, cozy stop at Fish City Studios.

Step into @jonsarkin 's former art studio (now a gallery and event space) and get warm after a day of shopping and exploring downtown. We’re keeping it simple and drop-in friendly: stay for 5 minutes, or stay the whole time.

If it’s your first visit, you’ll get to see a piece of Gloucester art history in the actual place where the work was made. If you’ve been here before, you already know how special this space is, and how fun it is to spend time here with family, friends, and neighbors!

Alongside Sarkin’s work, we’ll also have art on display from @janetknott , @mpatrickodonnell, James Formichella, and @chaceamy.

All are welcome. RSVP encouraged - the link is you know where!

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New sign??

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