The Art Scene 03.17.16
Dutch Artists at Halsey Mckay
The Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton is presenting “The Hyena Is a Striped Dog Who Thought He Was a Horse,” two exhibitions by the Dutch artists Koen Delaere and Bas van den Hurk, on view through April 3.
They are paired, for their first two-person show, in the ground-floor gallery, while upstairs is a curatorial project by both artists featuring work by Steven Cox, Cheryl Donegan, Aleana Egan, Wade Guyton, Rachel Koolen, and Wendy White.
In Mr. Delaere’s paintings, the repeated layering of pigment challenges the physical plane of the surface, as new paint hides the previous composition or is scraped off to reveal the marks below. The striated, fragmented forms express the physical processes that created them.
Mr. van den Hurk’s new paintings on silk include screened patterns fragmenting an image of Lizica Codreanu, an avant-garde dancer from the 1920s, wearing a costume designed by Sonia Delaunay for a film. The paintings can be seen as self-contained objects or as images located within a larger network of production and distribution.
Hedda Sterne’s “Machines”
“Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947-1951,” an exhibition of paintings and works on paper, is on view through April 29 at the Van Doren Waxter gallery in Manhattan.
Sterne, who immigrated to the United States in 1941 and lived in East Hampton from 1966 to 1999, began the “Machines” series after encountering farming equipment on a trip to Vermont. According to the gallery, it is “a series of almost Futurist forms, rendering inanimate machinery with alternatingly humorous, aggressive, and menacing physical attributes, evoking America’s subconscious preoccupation with postwar infrastructure.”
“Sense of Place” at Ashawagh
“A Sense of Place,” a group exhibition of work by artists inspired by their experiences and interpretations of the concept of place, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday from 9 to 8, and Sunday from 10 to 4. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The participating artists, who work in a variety of mediums, are Kirsten Benfield, Christopher Butler, Judy Clifford, Mary Daunt, Ellen Dooley, Anne Holton, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, Joan Kraisky, Mary Laspia, Pingree Louchheim, Stephanie Reit, Nancy Robbins, Jerry Schwabe, Tom Steele, Lieve Thiers, Richard Udice, and Lisa Weston.
“Visual Short Circuit”
In Sag Harbor
Richard J. Demato Fine Arts in Sag Harbor will present “Visual Short Circuit,” an exhibition of paintings by Salvatore Alessi, from tomorrow through April 4.
Born in Sicily, Mr. Alessi has exhibited internationally, but this is his first solo show in the United States. His paintings reflect his classical training but disrupt the realistically portrayed world of his subjects, creating “visual short-circuits” in which figures begin to morph into pixels or well-dressed businessmen and objects inexplicably defy gravity.
At the White Room
In Bridgehampton
An exhibition of paintings by Melissa Hin, an artist from Miller Place whose work explores “the expression of emotion,” is on view at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton through March 27.
At the same time, the gallery is presenting a group show of work by Kat O’Neill, Robert Perez, Barbara Bilotta, Mark Zimmerman, Nadine Daskaloff, Ruby Jackson, Sally Breen, June Kaplan, Mark Seidenfeld, Dianne Marxe, Beth O’Donnell, Ann Brandeis, Bryan Greene, Clare Schoenheimer, and Andrea McCafferty.
The gallery will host a reception, including meditation and sound healing, on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m., recognizing the 20 finalists in the Hamptons Yoga Fest online poster competition.