The Art Scene: 02.15.18
Valentine From Janet Lehr
“Valentine and Art: Together Forever,” a group exhibition, will open at Janet Lehr Fine Arts in East Hampton with a reception Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. and continue through March 7. The gallery has suggested that revelers wear “a touch of red” to the opening.
The exhibition will include several unique Bert Stern photographs of Marilyn Monroe and paintings and sculpture by the contemporary artists David Demers, Adam Handler, Ron Agam, Haim Mizrahi, Colin Christian, Christopher Deeton, and Shimon Okshteyn. Flower studies by Warren Brandt and Paul Georges and figure studies by Balcomb Greene and Paul Resika will also be on view.
Virva Hinnemo in SoHo
“Four Feet,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Virva Hinnemo, will open Wednesday at the Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will remain on view through April 21.
Ms. Hinnemo’s new paintings reflect a shift from cardboard as her primary surface to canvas and works on paper, but she continues to apply broad swaths of paint that, while not thickly applied, have a straightforward, material presence.
According to a press release, “Her language is spare and unaffected. . . . The virtues of paint are abundant but frugal, open-ended yet tough-minded. . . . [her] blunt inscriptions are made exclusively by hand and give the impression of signs or symbols observed directly from life and always on her own terms.” Ms. Hinnemo, who was born in Finland, earned a B.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design and has lived in Springs since 2012.
Four Photographers
“Winter to Spring,” a show of work by four photographers, is on view at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor through April 10. Stephen Wilkes’s “Day to Night” series captures sites throughout the world, among them the crowded beaches of Coney Island and Santa Monica, Calif. Daniel Jones’s photographs from the “Seaside Expressions” series take a painterly approach to the medium.
Blair Seagram’s images of surfers are inspired in part by “their keen sense of timing catching a wave then riding across it.” Roberto Dutesco is best known for his photographs of wild horses on Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Southampton Art Show
The Southampton Artists Association will hold its winter art show at the Southampton Cultural Center from Wednesday through March 4. Receptions will be held Feb. 24 and March 3, both days from 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibition will include oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, mixed media, sculpture, and photographs.