The Art Scene: 01.29.15

Lichtenstein Film

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will screen “Roy Lichtenstein: Tokyo Brushstrokes,” a 1995 film that documents the creative process, from concept to fabrication and installation, of one of the artist’s most important public sculptures, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Lichtenstein became intrigued by a brushstroke he saw in a cartoon and started his “brushstroke paintings” in 1965. In the 1980s, he began work on the monumental sculptures, which became public works in Paris, Barcelona, and, in 1994, Tokyo.

The film follows Lichtenstein as he selects images, makes models, meets with a Japanese architect and curator, enlarges the drawings, fabricates the sculptures in a foundry, and installs the works in Tokyo. Edgar B. Howard, producer of the film and founder of Checkerboard Film Foundation, will introduce it. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Mr. Howard and Terrie Sultan, the director of the museum. Tickets are $10, free for members, students, and children.

Materials and Methods

Also coming up at the Parrish, Eric Dever, a painter from Water Mill who has exhibited internationally, will teach a four-week class, beginning Friday, Feb. 6, focused on how artists use color, line, and form in both abstract and representational images.

With cues from works on view in the museum, each class will consist of a discussion and guided experimentation with drawing and/or painting mediums. Materials and Methods is open to those 15 and up, and is appropriate for both beginners and more experienced students.

The class will meet at 10 a.m. on Fridays through March 6, with no class on Feb. 20. The fee is $150, $120 for members, and advance reservations have been recommended. Materials will be supplied.

“The Life of a Puppet”

The Watermill Center’s Young Artist Residency Project, or YARP, an after-school arts program conducted in partnership with the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center, has created “The Life of a Puppet,” a multimedia show of portraiture that opens today with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill.

The work of the students, who range in age from 7 to 12, will share the gallery space with a projected video piece and paintings by Jose Carlos Casado, a 2014 Watermill Center resident artist from Spain, and embroidered portraits, photographs, and an edible sculpture by Christa Maiwald, a Springs artist.

The students spent the fall working with Watermill’s resident artists, experimenting with performance on the grounds and looking at the Watermill Collection. They have taken inspiration from sculptural portraits and textiles in the collection to make large-scale puppets that will be used in their spring 2015 collaborative performance.

The YARP program is overseen by Andrea Cote, an artist from Flanders known for installations, performances, and public projects, and Susan Lazarus-Reiman, a North Haven artist who directs the after-school programs at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.