The Art Scene: 06.08.17
Hannock at Grenning
The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor is opening a solo show of paintings by Stephen Hannock with a reception on Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will continue through July 3.
The luminosity and depth of his landscape paintings reflect Mr. Hannock’s admiration for the Hudson Valley painters of the 19th century. The unpeopled views of his “Flooded River” series, with its vast skies and dramatically changing weather, bring to mind those forebears. One mural-size work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is titled “The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded, Green Light.”
At the same time, he makes use of modern materials and practices, including collage. Mr. Hannock’s work is in many important public collections, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Smithsonian Museum.
Benefit for Haiti
Jonathan Glynn, an artist from Sag Harbor and a pilot with a small plane, founded Wings Over Haiti, which, after the 2010 earthquake, began by delivering medical supplies, food, and aid to remote regions. The organization went on to open the first Wings Over Haiti school near Port-au-Prince.
Hamptons Artists for Haiti will hold an art show and silent auction organized by Coco Myers and Kay Gibson of folioeast, an online gallery founded by Ms. Myers, on June 17 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Watermill Center. The goal of the event is to raise money to help build a new school for 400 children in Ranquitte, Haiti.
More than 45 artists have donated work for the show and auction. In addition, a raffle will offer airplane tours, yoga lessons, nursery certificates, dining, and other prizes. The evening will include hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, and music by Alfredo Merat.
Tickets are $125, and 100 percent of the money raised will go toward the new Wings Over Haiti school.
Everything Under 10 Grand
The Fireplace Project in Springs will open for the season tomorrow with “9999,” a group show of work by more than 30 artists organized by Edsel Williams. A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m., and the exhibition will run through July 9.
Like last year’s opening show of the same title, “9999” will be hung salon style, or, as a gallery announcement put it, “It will be wall-to-wall art.” Some of the artists have shown previously at the gallery, while many others have not. All the artworks are priced under $10,000, hence the show’s title.