The Art Scene: 03.12.15
Two at Drawing Room
The Drawing Room in East Hampton will reopen Saturday with concurrent solo exhibitions of paintings by Vincent Longo and sculpture by Elaine Grove. The show will run through April 27.
Mr. Longo, who lives in Amagansett, explores the energy and symmetry of the grid in his paintings, creating improvisational yet structured abstractions. He has written, “The forms and constructs I use are necessarily deliberate, regulated rather than predetermined, but I work with them relatively freely. Images and ideas are worked out rather than thought out.”
A Springs resident, Ms. Grove has for the past 20 years concentrated on welded steel sculpture. In her words, “I work in the classic constructivist tradition, with roots in the work of Gonzales, Picasso, Smith, and Caro.” Her assemblages also include found objects, chosen for their forms rather than their purposes.
Halsey Mckay On and Off-Site
Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton has two exhibitions opening this weekend, one at the gallery’s Newtown Lane location and a second at the former home and studio of Elaine de Kooning, at 55 Alewive Brook Road in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods.
“Day Moon,” which consists of a group exhibition downstairs and a solo show upstairs, will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and run through April 4. Jodie Vicenta Jacobson, an artist from New York, curated the group exhibition, which will include video, sound, dance-film, painting, photography, sculpture, and collage by 19 artists. Her own work will reside upstairs.
“Year,” an installation by Chris Duncan, who lives and works in Oakland, Calif., will open Sunday at the de Kooning house with a reception and brunch from noon to 4 p.m. and remain on view through April 11. He will show two replicas of the studio’s large-scale windows, one of which he placed on a Brooklyn roof, the other in Oakland. Both were covered in fabric, which, when exposed to sunlight, created images of the windows on the material.
Ceramic V8 Engines
Bonnie Rychlak, an artist and curator who lives in New York City and Springs, has organized “Machina,” an exhibition of work by David Packer that is now on view at Art Helix in Brooklyn through April 12.
Mr. Packer, who has a studio in Long Island City, is a sculptor whose work deals with the relationship between man and nature, how one affects the other, and how they interact in shared space.
The show will include “The Last of the V8s,” an installation of cast-ceramic replicas of the iconic machine, painted in red and hung from the ceiling. In Ms. Rychlak’s words, “The fast and beefy V8 machine is a symbol of accelerated power, but today is directly associated with Detroit and the capitalist demise of a once powerful city.”
Denise Gale Online
“Raw Paint,” an exhibition of recent work by Denise Gale, a Springs painter, is on view through April 12 at Galerie Cerulean, an online gallery that can be found at abartonline.com/galerie_cerulean.html. In Ms. Gale’s highly gestural works, large slabs of color and quickly rendered lines collide on dense, thickly layered surfaces.
Meet the Artists
GeekHampton of Sag Harbor has launched Meet the Artist, a new series of exhibitions presenting local artists who use technology in their work. The opening show, “Carnet Intime,” features the digital artwork of Camille Perrottet and will run through March 28. A reception will take place tomorrow from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The exhibition includes images that make up a visual diary of her life in East Hampton, New York City, and Paris in 2014. Rather than writing her thoughts, she used an iPad and several apps to communicate her experiences visually. Ms. Perrottet works in a wide range of mediums and has exhibited extensively in France, New York City, and on the East End.