The Art Scene: 06.29.17
Double Your Pleasure
“Place of Heaven,” an exhibition of work by Jonah King, Hannah Levy, and Sara Stern, will open simultaneously tomorrow at the Art Barge on Napeague and Crush Curatorial in Amagansett in the first collaboration between the two venues.
The artists were selected by Karen Hesse Flatow, founder of Crush Curatorial, after they visited Napeague Harbor and the archives of the Art Barge. “Place of Heaven” was the name Victor D’Amico gave to the World War I barge he transported to Napeague to start an educational program there.
Opening receptions will be held at Crush Curatorial tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. and at the Art Barge from 6 to sunset. The artist Pera Lern will present a brief site-specific performance at the barge at 7.
“Art on the Edge”
Fifteen artists from throughout the United States and abroad will be featured in “Art on the Edge 2017,” an exhibition opening at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton with a reception Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. The show will continue at the gallery through July 23.
“Art on the Edge” is an annual survey of what the gallery deems “the most provocative new painters, sculptors, and photographers working today.”
Two at Rental Gallery
The Rental Gallery in East Hampton will open two exhibitions on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The shows will continue through July 25.
“Color People,” a group exhibition of contemporary work organized by the artist Rashid Johnson, brings together the work of artists united by their radical use and understanding of color. Among the participants are Robert Colescott, Sam Gilliam, Mary Heilmann, and Bob Thompson.
“Jonathan Silver,” a show of the late artist’s bronze sculpture organized by Nicole Klagsbrun, consists of nine vertical pieces from the 1980s and early 1990s.
Mel Kendrick at Drawing Room
“Mel Kendrick: Early Woodprints/ Recent Sculpture” opens tomorrow at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and will remain on view through July 31. The exhibition includes three mahogany sculptures with black and white patterned surfaces and eccentrically shaped voids, a suite of individual woodprints made in 1990 at the Grenfell Press, and a portfolio of six prints related to the woodprints.
Also featured is a nine-by-eight-foot woodblock made by sawing hardwood and plywood, then reconfiguring the elements and printing from the newly formed matrices.
Brooklyn Meets Montauk
“Brooklyn Shapes/Montauk Views,” a show of sculpture by Luke Schumacher and photographs by Gary Kuehn, opens tomorrow at the Woodbine Collection in Montauk, with a reception set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be on view through Aug. 6.
Working in high-end automobile restoration led Mr. Schumacher to a career in metal sculpture, which is inspired by the movement of fire and water. Mr. Kuehn, drawn to water since childhood, captures the natural beauty of Montauk with scientific accuracy.
Artists Alliance Show
Ashawagh Hall in Springs is once again the site of the annual members exhibition of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton. More than 50 artists will exhibit paintings, drawings, and sculpture in a show opening with a reception Saturday evening from 5 to 8.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. except for July 9, the show’s last day, when it will close at 4 p.m. Ten percent of sales will be donated to the Springs Food Pantry.
Paton Miller and Peter Spacek
Grain Surfboards Gallery in Amagansett will present “Salty Drawers,” drawings, paintings, and scrimshaw by Paton Miller and Peter Spacek, two inveterate surfers, from Saturday through July 16. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and an artist chat will happen on July 8 at 7 p.m.
The exhibition consists of materials drawn from the artists’ sketchbooks, archives, and surfboards. Much of the work has not been shown previously on Long Island. The July 8 talk will connect the art to the artists’ travels and adventures.
Nostalgia for Bathing Beauties
Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art in Bridgehampton will present an appropriate exhibition for summer, “Bathing Beauties, a series of paintings by Elise Remender, from Saturday through Labor Day. The show opens Saturday with a reception beginning at 6 p.m.
Women in and around swimming pools populate the paintings. The artist is inspired by the look and styles of the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s — the poses, the elegance, even the bathing suits familiar from the films of Esther Williams.
Talk on Rediscovered Degas
In 2004, a plaster cast of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer” was discovered in a foundry outside Paris. For Gregory Hedberg, an art historian and Southampton resident, the discovery was important because, with its distinctive pose, it roiled the 19th-century art world. It was later reworked in a less revolutionary style that is the one that has become familiar.
Mr. Hedberg will discuss the artwork and its enormous influence on the course of art history on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Southampton Historical Museum. Admission is free; a reception will follow the talk.
American Masters at Borghi
“American Masters” is opening Saturday at Mark Borghi in Bridgehampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be on view through mid-August.
The exhibition includes works by Willem de Kooning, Gene Davis, Jean Michel Basquiat, Ed Ruscha, George Condo, Marsden Hartley, Nicolas Carone, Stuart Davis, Kenneth Noland, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Helen Frankenthaler, David Smith, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, and Richard Pousette-Dart, among others.
Roz Dimon on Both Forks
Roz Dimon, an artist from Shelter Island who has been experimenting with digital media for more than 30 years, has a busy summer ahead. “American Idols: Washington to Coca-Cola” will open at the Montauk Library on Wednesday and run through July 30. Ms. Dimon will give a talk on July 16 at 2 p.m.
Her work is also on view from today through July 31 at the South Street Gallery in Greenport, where a reception will take place Friday, July 7, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Installation on Shelter Island
Two East End artists, Robin Rice and Amy Pilkington, have created an installation titled “A Summer Shelter” at Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty office on Shelter Island. The artists have enhanced the historic building’s original details.
The installation can be seen from Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m., through Aug. 20. Ten percent of sales will benefit Save the Children.
Reception at Cultural Center
The Southampton Cultural Center will hold a reception next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. for the artist Giancarlo Impiglia, whose exhibition “Rhythms of Color,” is on view there through July 30.
While his signature style draws from Cubism and Futurism, his recent paintings reflect his Italian heritage and reimagine scenes from the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters.
Kennedys at Eothen
In 1972, the six cottages of Eothen, Andy Warhol’s Montauk compound at the time, were bustling with activity and boldface names. Lee Radziwill rented one of the cottages for the season and brought out her children, Anthony and Tina Radziwill, as well as her sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her children, Caroline and John Kennedy Jr. Peter Beard was also staying in one of the cottages, and Warhol came out on the weekends.
Into the mix Ms. Onassis invited Jonas Mekas, a photographer now in his 90s, to teach the children photography. His record of that summer and Eothen’s habitues will be shown in Montauk at the Boo-Hooray Summer Rental gallery on Montauk Highway from Saturday through July 14.