The Art Scene: 02.09.17

Winter Salon in Bridge

The East End Winter Salon, an artists’ collaborative conceived by Robin Rice, Amy Pilkington, and Sixtina Friedrich as a showcase for their work, will present its first exhibition, “What We Love About the East End,” from Saturday through April 2 at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The show includes photography, crystal jewelry, and textiles inspired by and created in the Hamptons. Ms. Rice, founder of an eponymous gallery in Manhattan, is a photographer whose work has been described as “candid, honest, and genuine.” Ms. Friedrich is an artist and homeopath who creates unique crystal jewelry known as Bliss necklaces. Ms. Pilkington, who makes textiles and jewelry, lives and works in the former studio of Elaine de Kooning in Springs.

Key Pollock Returns

Jackson Pollock’s “Alchemy,” one of his earliest poured paintings, will be on view in the United States for the first time since 1969 in the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition “Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim” from tomorrow through Sept. 6. The work is on loan from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

“Jackson Pollock: Exploring ‘Alchemy,’ ” installed in the museum’s Sackler Center for Arts Education, tells the story of the painting’s recent conservation, exploring the physical properties of the materials Pollock used to create it and how he applied them to the canvas.

A piece of the quilting frame on which “Alchemy” was painted and a selection of Pollock’s paints and implements, lent by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, will also be on view.

Women as Subject Matter

ArtUnprimed, the pop-up gallery that occupies the Addo Women’s Clothing Collective on Sag Harbor’s Main Street, will open “Women,” its second exhibition, with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will continue through Feb. 26.

Concentrating on women as subject matter in works by both male and female artists, the show includes art by Rosalind Brenner, Bruce Lieberman, Christian Little, Charles Ly, Jane Martin, Dalton Portella, Aubrey Roemer, and Ingrid Silva.

Before the reception, from 5 to 6, Mr. Little and Casey Dalene, the gallery’s director, will discuss his background and creative processes.

Christensen Stain Paintings

Nineteen paintings from Dan Christensen’s “Late Calligraphic Stain” period will be on view at Berry Campbell in Chelsea from today through March 11. A reception takes place tonight from 6 to 8.

Mr. Christensen, who lived in East Hampton until his death in 2007, pursued various lines of inquiry into the language of abstraction as he established himself as one of the leading abstract painters of his time. 

In the works on view, which date from 1998 through 2006, he turned from the soft-edged, floating air-brushed circles that had been the focus of many of his earlier paintings and began to use methods of staining and “drawing” with pressure sprayers, spray guns, and turkey basters.