“My work is very premeditated,” Scott Csoke told Metal Magazine in 2020, “so I often come to painting or drawing with a very clear idea in mind.” For Csoke’s first solo exhibition in New York City, the Brooklyn-based artist presents 10 paintings on panel that pay tribute to the John Derian Co., the East Village home goods and antiques store that is part cabinet of curiosities and part grand bazaar. Catching the color and character of Derian’s unique aesthetic, Csoke makes bold yet unpretentious strokes. On the gallery walls he’s drawn wainscoting and paneled doors to further the notion of “pictures-within-pictures.” —Jeanne Malle