The Art Scene: 03.15.18
New at Rental Gallery
“Space Never Moved,” a show of new paintings by Margaux Ogden, will open on Saturday with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Rental Gallery in East Hampton and remain on view through April 18.
Ms. Ogden, who lives and works in Brooklyn, paints in acrylic on raw canvas to create tightly patterned, self-referential works. While in the past she has used phrases and symbols as a painterly typeface, the new works lack discernable script. The result is paintings stripped to their bare essentials: paint, canvas, gesture, and time.
Small Works at Folioeast
Concurrent with its pop-up at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton, Folioeast has opened “Seven,” a show of small oil paintings, watercolors, mixed-media works, and collage at Malia Mills on Main Street in East Hampton. The exhibition, which will run through April 1, includes work by Kirsten Benfield, Diane Englander, Donna Green, Joe Loria, Lesley Obrock, Jerry Schwabe, and Janice Stanton.
Mizrahi at Ashawagh
An exhibition of work by Haim Mizrahi of East Hampton will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday and Sunday. A reception will be held on Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m., and a reading by East End poets will take place Sunday afternoon at 3. Mr. Mizrahi noted that, while the show is a retrospective, it includes many pieces from this year.
Straus at Grenning
“Oncoming,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Adam Straus, will open at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception on Saturday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and continue through April 15.
The refined craft of Mr. Straus’s realist paintings is often overlaid with experimental touches that express his concern with political and environmental issues. Works from his “Old News” series, for example, consist of realistic landscapes and seascapes painted on recent newspapers whose partially visible headlines bring current politics into play.
In another series, the Riverhead-based artist uses the iPhone app “Glitch” to distort photographs of remote landscapes and then paints the technological distortions onto his classical versions of the scene. He also breaks the picture plane by painting on the works’ lead frames.
Solomon in Sarasota
“Native Shore,” an exhibition of work by Mike Solomon, will open with a reception this evening from 5:30 to 8 at Alfstad & Contemporary in Sarasota, Fla., and remain on view through April 14.
Growing up, Mr. Solomon lived half the year in East Hampton, the other half in Sarasota. He was a fixture on the East End art scene until relocating to Florida several years ago, and the exhibition celebrates his return there.
“The horizontal line is the perfect icon for this place, so I chose to make paintings using only horizontal stripes,” he has said about his recent work. “Each colored stripe indicates both what I have outwardly observed and inwardly felt.”
Assemblages and Collages
Assemblages and collages by Jeanelle Myers, a Sag Harbor artist, will be on view at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor from Saturday through April 30. A reception will take place March 24 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Ms. Myers combines discarded objects — stones, shells, pieces of metal, shards of glass or ceramic — intuitively, “with no message in mind,” according to her website.
Parcher Retrospective
“Figuring It Out/Then and Now,” a retrospective exhibition of work by Joyce Parcher of Amagansett, is on view at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea through March 24. In Ms. Parcher’s words, her paintings, which feature whirling brushstrokes of raw color and abstract human figures, can be seen as “a metaphor for a disorder, change, and the indefatigable power of the human spirit . . . a reflection of the dichotomy of pain and pleasure we all experience over the course of time.”