The Art Scene 03.03.16

Lambrecht at Drawing Room

“Laurie Lambrecht: Cyanotype,” an exhibition of recent work by the Bridgehampton photographer, will open tomorrow at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through April 10.

Cyanotype is a photographic process discovered in the mid-19th century that produces a Prussian-blue print. Ms. Lambrecht uses the medium to examine the natural environments that have been her longstanding subjects, addressing assumptions of how we interpret and internalize visual experience.

The gallery will also show editions and monoprints by Jennifer Bartlett, Sue Heatley, Vincent Longo, John Newman, and Dan Rizzie from tomorrow through April 3.

Fay Lansner and Barbara Guest

“Metamorphosis: The Collaboration of Poet Barbara Guest and Artist Fay Lansner” is on view at Poets House in TriBeCa through April 23. Both women, who collaborated over a 30-year period, were longtime East End residents, Lansner in Bridgehampton and Guest in Southampton.

Lansner was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist who studied with Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s and exhibited at the cooperative Hansa Gallery on 12th Street, where Guest first saw her work at an opening in the early 1950s. Guest was a leading poet of the New York School who wrote more than 20 books of poetry as well as criticism for ARTNews and other magazines. 

Some of the works in the Poets House exhibition, which include paintings, drawings, photographs, and postcards, were included in the “Poets and Artists of the Region” show held at Guild Hall in 1982. Among them are Lansner’s “Tessera” paintings, which rearranged Guest’s poetry into collages of text, stamps, clipped paper, and pastels.

Barbara Groot in Quogue

An exhibition of paintings by Barbara Groot, an artist who lives and works in East Hampton, is on view at the art gallery of the Quogue Library through March 30.

The artist’s large-scale abstract paintings have been inspired by the sun and light of Southern California, where she grew up, and the East End. Her bold brushwork and bright colors express the energy and immediacy of the natural world. 

Portraits at Little Estia

“Writers and Storytellers of the East End and Beyond,” an exhibition of paintings by Valerie Suter, is on view at Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor through April 26.

Ms. Suter, who lives and works in Los Angeles, spent much of her childhood on the East End, where she attended the Amagansett School and, during college, worked at Estia’s when it was located on Main Street in Amagansett. In addition to portraits of such local literary legends as John Steinbeck, the exhibition will include portraits of “beyond” writers, among them Patricia Highsmith, Virginia Woolf, John Cheever, and Mark Twain.

A reception will be held on April 10 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Watercolor Classes

At Bridge Gardens

Lois Bender, an artist and educator whose work expresses the spirit and beauty of gardens and floral designs, will teach a three-session watercolor class starting Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton. The workshops are suitable for both beginners and experienced artists and offer training in drawing and sketching as well as watercolor painting.

Subsequent classes are scheduled for March 19 and March 26, also from noon to 3. The cost is $50 per class, and prepaid reservations, which can be made at gardenspiritsny.com, are required. 

Banks and Little 

On Spring/Break

The Sara Nightingale Gallery has decamped from Water Mill to Manhattan for the Spring/Break Art Show, one of many satellite art fairs happening concurrently with the Armory Show. Spring/Break is open daily through Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. 

Titled “Little Deaths,” the five-day exhibition includes paintings from Christian Little’s “Exhibitionists” series and porcelain sculptures by Monica Banks. Mr. Little, who lives in Kingston, N.Y., examines a voyeur culture obsessed with sex, drama, and the lives of others in his recent paintings. Ms. Banks, an East Hampton resident, addresses suffering and death in her detailed assemblages of anonymous victims of man-made and natural disasters.