The Art Scene: 06.11.15

Elaine de Kooning Remembered

In anticipation of its August exhibition “Elaine de Kooning Portrayed,” the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will present a free talk by Denise Elaine Lassaw, de Kooning’s goddaughter, on Sunday at 5 p.m.

“E de K: A Life in Frames” will include Ms. Lassaw’s personal recollections of her godmother, from whom she received her middle name, illustrated with family snapshots and documents. The daughter of Ibram and Ernestine Lassaw, who became full-time Springs residents in 1963, she will also reminisce about growing up in the heart of the Abstract Expressionist milieu in both New York City and East Hampton.

Art Barge Up and Running

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art has scheduled a wide variety of workshops that will run through the summer and into September at the Art Barge on Napeague.

Studio painting classes take place weekdays from 9 to noon and from 1 to 4 through September. Teachers include Michael Rosch, Bill Nagle, Ralph Carpentier, Sue Gussow, David Joel, Sally Egbert, Jim Bergesen, Aurelio Torres, and Christopher Kohan. Full-day classes, from 9 to 4, cost $250. Half days are $200.

The institute will also offer workshops in ceramics, collage, pastel, assemblage, watercolor, drawing, encaustic, and photography. New this year are a writing workshop, weekend workshops in writing and digital art, and a class devoted to art for families. The Artists Speak lecture series will return with four Wednesday-evening programs.

Details about all classes can be found at theartbarge.org.

New at Halsey Mckay

The Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton has two new exhibitions on view through June 22. Patrick Brennan and Jennie Jieun Lee, working in painting and ceramics respectively, “celebrate the self, physically at work in the studio and emotionally in the mind,” according to the gallery.

Mr. Brennan uses oil, acrylic, silk, paper, Mylar, wood, photographs, and popsicle sticks, affixing each piece to the picture plane so it influences its neighboring components without any representational references.

For Ms. Lee, porcelain forms act like canvases, to which she attaches three-dimensional ceramic embellishments, including layered glazes, drips, and pours, resulting in mask-like pieces that express their materiality in complex layered works.

In the upstairs gallery, Brion Nuda Rosch, whose work combines sculpture, painting, collage, and photographs, produces art that the gallery calls “at once ridiculously formal, elegantly primitive, and sometimes represented in the form of a photograph.”

Christensen at Ille Arts

“People, Places, and Things,” a show of new paintings by Don Christensen, will open at Ille Arts in Amagansett with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through June 30.

The show will consist of smaller works, some of which, such as “Sister’s Mountains III,” with its five triangular shapes seeming to reach for a brightly colored sky, suggest imagery. At the same time, they retain the artist’s commitment to what Lilly Wei, an art critic and independent curator, called a “distinctive brand of high-energy abstractions.”

Mr. Christensen, who had a 20-year career as a musician before turning to painting, has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Springs.

Paintings And

Animated Projections

The Tripoli Gallery in Southampton will present “Aakash Nihalani: Passage,” new works by the installation artist, from tomorrow through July 5. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Nihalani’s art takes its cues from the architecture and geometries of each specific site. His interventions engage the viewer by using familiar shapes to produce unexpected visuals that transform the surfaces of buildings or canvases.

The exhibition will display his most recent paintings in conjunction with animated projections that bring the human performer into the work to challenge the viewer’s perceptions of gesture, context, space, and meaning.

Dark Paintings

“Hidden Treasure,” an exhibition of paintings by Haim Mizrahi, an East Hampton artist, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs Saturday and Sunday, with an opening reception set for Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m.

The show will feature glow-in-the-dark paintings, supported by black lights, whose compositions will be altered as the lighting shifts from black to ordinary incandescent. The show’s title refers to the surprise elements that emerge as the paintings change.

Four at Kramoris

The Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present work by Lauren Chenault, Christopher Engel, Rick Gold, and Adrienne Kitaeff from today through June 2. A reception is set for Saturday from 5 to 6:30.

Both Ms. Chenault and Mr. Gold are photographers who are partial to landscapes as subjects. His recent work aims at precise control of color and light in natural settings. She often works at the beach, with the intention of catching a precise moment.

Mr. Engel’s paintings feature archetypal images that have a primitive and mystical quality, sometimes including numbers, words, and symbols crudely scrawled over the image. Ms. Kitaeff, a longtime writer and photographer, creates drawings of frontal faces on ceramic tiles with an iPad and an app.

Abstraction at Ross

"The Illusion of Definition,” an exhibition of work by Roisin Bateman, Don Christensen, and Anne Raymond, is on view at the Ross School gallery in East Hampton through June 23. All three artists work abstractly, but in a variety of mediums and approaches.

Ms. Bateman expresses the metaphoric effects of weather on nature in her paintings, pastels, and monotypes. Mr. Christensen’s geometric shapes and bright, vibrant colors are inspired by nature and music. Ms. Raymond uses glazes of translucent color and expressive drawing to evoke nature without suggesting landscape.

The exhibition, as in years past, has been organized by seventh-grade students, with the support of Jennifer Cross, Jon Mulhern, and Carol Crane, teachers.

Bruce Milne in Sag

The AMG Gallery for the Arts in Sag Harbor, a relative newcomer, having opened its doors in February, will present “Photo Scapes” by Bruce Milne, a Sag Harbor photographer, from tomorrow through June 28, with a reception happening tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Milne grew up in rural New York State and developed a profound feeling for nature early on that today informs his photographs, which capture wild and usually unpopulated landscapes shrouded in fog or the dense undergrowth overtaking forests and streams.

Film and Panel at Eastville

In conjunction with its current exhibition, “Sculpted Images,” the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor will present “Stonefaced,” a documentary by Vivian Ducat of Sag Harbor about Robert King, whose photographs of faces on iconic New York City buildings share the exhibition space with David Cosgrove’s carvings from historic gravestones in Sag Harbor, on Saturday at 11 a.m.

The screening will be followed by a discussion among Ms. Ducat, Mr. King, Mr. Cosgrove, and Bill Chaleff, an East End architect. Refreshments will be served.