The Art Scene: 06.22.17

Native American Landscapes

“Jeremy Dennis: On This Site,” a photography and research project by Mr. Dennis, who is a Shinnecock tribal member, will take place at the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum in Southampton from Saturday through Aug. 24. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

“On This Site” aims to preserve and create awareness of culturally significant Native American landscapes throughout Long Island. Among the many locations featured in the exhibition are Nissequogue, Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, the Sebonac Creek settlement, Sugar Loaf Hill in Orient, the Stony Brook site of a prehistoric Indian village, and Fort Pond in Montauk, known by the Montaukett Indians as Konkhunganik.

Mr. Dennis graduated from Stony Brook University in 2013 with a minor in digital arts and received an M.F.A. last year from Penn State. He lives on the Shinnecock reservation.

A version of this exhibition will open at The Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead in July.

Two Solos at Harper’s Books

Harper’s Books in East Hampton is presenting concurrent exhibitions by Tamar Halpern and Todd Bienvenu from Saturday through July 19. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Halpern is a photographer whose original subjects are transformed by scanning, re-photographing, printing, sponging, silk-screening, and other means of alteration.

Mr. Bienvenu’s paintings are distinctive in part because of their subject matter — drinking, sex, tattooed rockers among them — and a style that could be characterized as comic expressionism.

New at Halsey Mckay

Exhibitions of work by Sheree Hovsepian and Colby Bird are on view at the Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton through July 5. Both artists transgress the boundaries of a specific medium.

Ms. Hovsepian’s new series of assemblages combine gelatin silver prints, photograms, and translucent fabric into layered compositions. The fabric is cut, stretched, and wrapped around the prints.

Mr. Bird works primarily in photography and sculpture to create work that engages conceptual and art historical ideas. Every element of the pieces — ornate frames, the mirroring of the viewer, and the image itself — is to be considered part of the work.

Landscapes Past and Present

Ille Arts in Amagansett is showing landscape paintings by Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, and Casey Chalem Anderson from Saturday through July 12, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Porter and Welliver first met in Maine in the 1960s. Welliver, who moved there permanently in the ’70s, is known for his majestic paintings of the deep Maine woods. While Porter also painted people and interiors, his landscapes captured the light and colors of the East End.

Ms. Anderson, who lives in Sag Harbor, focuses on the dramatic ocean and more peaceful waterways of the region.

Focus on Climate Change

“The Arctic Melt,” recent photographs by Diane Tuft, is on view at the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan through July 20. 

For almost two decades, Ms. Tuft has used both infrared and ultraviolet photography. Since visiting Greenland in 2007, she has continued to use UV photography while focusing her lens on the effects of global temperature rise in the Arctic, creating images that make visible a catastrophic process that some deny at everyone’s peril.

Inspired by Nature

“Natural Selection,” an exhibition of work by artists who draw inspiration from nature, will be on view tomorrow through Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. A reception will take place Saturday evening from 5 to 8.

Organized by Mary Laspia, the show will include work by Abby Abrams, Kirsten Benfield, Scott Bluedorn, Christopher Butler, Kurt Giehl, Anne Holton, Mary Jaffe, Ms. Laspia, Mark Perry, Nancy Robbins, Karen Peters Sloves, Richard Udice, and Rona Winter.

The Organic Impulse

Jeff Lincoln Art and Design in Southampton will present “Organic Impulse in Contemporary Art”through July 21. Featuring the work of the Abstract Expressionist sculptor Raoul Hague, the show examines the influence of the organic on a range of artists including Yayoi Kusama, Carl Andre, Jack Youngerman, Lee Mullican, Al Held, John Chamberlain and Georg Baselitz. The gallery will also present works that express an organic sensibility in design and ceramics.

Long Island Landscapes

Clinton Academy, the East Hampton Historical Society’s museum on Main Street, is showing “Caught on Canvas: View of Eastern Long Island Landscapes From the Wallace Collection, 1850-1935” from tomorrow through July 23. A reception will be held tomorrow evening from 5 to 7, and a curator’s tour is set for July 8 at 10 a.m.

“Caught on Canvas” puts on exhibition for the first time 50 paintings from a private collection focused on the wide range of styles found in the work of the late-19th and early-20th-century painters who were drawn to the beauty of Long Island’s South Shore.

Painting, Sculpture, Furniture

The Todd Merrill Studio in Southampton will open “Master/Protégé,” the work of Knox Martin and Ezra Cohen, with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m., continuing through July 9.

A noted second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Mr. Martin will be paired for the first time with Mr. Cohen in a show that highlights each artist’s approach to abstraction. Sculpture by Shari Mendelson and steel furniture by Chris Rucker will also be on view.

Group Show at White Room

“More Than Meets the Eye,” an exhibition featuring the work of Mike Harrigan, Katherine Liepe-Levinson, Holly Meeker Rom, and Luciana Pampalone, is on view through July 9 at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Nature’s organic forms inspire Mr. Harrigan’s welded iron sculpture. Ms. Rom is known for her watercolors and collage. Ms. Liepe-Levinson’s photographs testify to the preciousness of the natural world, while people, travel, and nature inspire Ms. Pampalone’s images.

Two at RJD Gallery

“Suspension of Disbelief,” an exhibition of paintings by Alexander Klingspor and Margo Selski, opens Saturday at the RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton with a reception from 5 to 8:30 p.m. It will remain on view through July 16.

Both artists depict eccentric characters. Mr. Klingspor’s fantastical dramatic scenes make an interesting contrast with Ms. Selski’s calculated diorama-esque compositions.