Poetic titles, thin washes of color inspired by J.M.W. Turner, and a playful use of collage all characterize Sally Egbert’s work, which will be on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs beginning Saturday.
“Sally Egbert: Some Years Around the Sun” will display mixed-media paintings, sculpture, and collages that she has produced over the past several years. The artist, who has lived and worked in New York City and East Hampton since 1982, has received two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and several others since 1992.
There is a dreamy nostalgia in titles such as “Memory Flowers” and “Landline,” and an evocative call to nature in “Night Garden” and “Open Window.”
“The paintings that I love most have tension,” Ms. Egbert told The Star in 2007. “I’ll add and subtract and build up the surface of the canvas so that the color almost glows. They take time.”
An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday. The show will remain on view through July 21. Her work is also on view in New York City in “Downtown Painting,” organized by the artist Alex Katz, at Peter Freeman Inc.
Dennis Oppenheim’s PVC pipe and painted steel sculpture “Small Bushes,” from his “Alternative Landscape Components” series, will also be on view on the Duck Creek grounds through the summer.