The Art Scene 06.02.16
East End Photographers
The East End Photographers Group will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday for nine days with an exhibition of work by 25 of its members. An opening reception, with music by Job Potter and Friends, happens on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m., and a closing reception will be held June 12.
The show, which will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from noon to 5 on weekends, will include traditional, digital, and alternative photographic processes.
Dan Rizzie at Marcelle
The Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton will launch its summer exhibition schedule Saturday with a solo show of work by Dan Rizzie. A reception will take place on June 11 from 6 to 8 p.m., and the show will continue through June 19.
Mr. Rizzie, who lives in Sag Harbor, is known for his detailed collage work and the textural quality of his surfaces, which are often influenced by the rhythms of the natural world and his wide travels.
New Design Fair
Just when you thought the East End had enough, if not more than enough, summer art fairs, a new one, Hamptons Contemporary Design and Decor Fair, has not only joined the mix, but has taken pole position, opening tomorrow at the Southampton Elks fairground and continuing through Sunday.
Claiming to be “the first of its kind world-class international home and decor show in the Hamptons,” the fair is a new project by an old hand, Rick Friedman, creator of ArtHamptons. In addition to featuring various aspects of home design, the event will include book signings by architects, designers, and decorators.
Day passes are $20; V.I.P. passes are $100 per couple. More information is available at hamptonscontemporary. com.
Abstract Paintings at Markel
A show of recent paintings by Marcelyn McNeil will open tomorrow at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton and remain on view through June 19.
Ms. McNeil’s abstract paintings are composed of large, irregular shapes that engage each other to create an illusory pictorial space, while at the same time asserting the flatness of the picture plane. “The work is about push and pull,” the artist has said, referring to Hans Hofmann’s theory about how the illusion of space, depth, and movement could be created abstractly on a canvas.
Dennis Oppenheim at Storm King
“Terrestrial Studio,” a survey of several decades of work by Dennis Oppenheim, is on view through Nov. 13 at the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y.
Mr. Oppenheim, who divided his time between New York City and a house in Springs until his death in 2011, was a protean artist whose radical aspirations found expression in Land Art, Body Art, Conceptual Art, performance, video, installations, and sculpture.
The Storm King exhibition traces his career-long engagement with outdoor space, from “Dead Furrow,” a somewhat Minimalist earthwork from 1967, to “Cactus Grove” (2009) and “Alternative Landscape Components” (2006), in which monolithic sculptures are modeled after the natural world in steel, aluminum, acrylic, fiberglass, and other materials.
In addition to outdoor work, the exhibition includes audio pieces, films of several of the artist’s performances, and photographic documentation of large-scale land-altering earthworks.
Plein Air Painters
The Nature Conservancy, at 142 Route 114 in East Hampton, will present “People and Places of the Nature Conservancy,” an exhibition of work by members of the Wednesday Group, from Saturday, when there will be an opening reception from noon to 2 p.m., until July 1.
The works in the show will focus on people enjoying the vistas of East End lands that are protected by the conservancy. The Wednesday Group consists of artists who paint en plein air.
Artists Under the Influence
The Chase Edwards Gallery in Bridgehampton is presenting “Under the Influence” through June 11. Recent paintings by Athos Zacharias, Tim Bessell, Matt Neuman, and Kal Mansur explore influence, inspiration, and the impact of personal friendships with such artists as Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, and Frank Stella.
Reception at Harper’s Books
Harper’s Books in East Hampton will celebrate the publication of “We Are Gods in the Chrysalis,” a compilation of work by Meghan Boody, an artist who grew up in Bridgehampton and now lives on the North Fork, on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Ms. Boody will sign copies of the book, which was published by Kerber Verlag in March.
Winners’ Circle
The Southampton Cultural Center will show work by the winners of its 2015 juried art exhibition from Tuesday through June 28, with a reception set for June 11 from 4 to 6 p.m. The artists, who were selected by Christina Strassfield, chief curator and museum director of Guild Hall, are John Cappello, Ruth Nasca, and Sara Douglas.