The Art Scene 07.07.16

Art for the Park in Sag

The Sag Harbor Partnership’s The Big Tent: Party for the Park, proceeds from which will be earmarked for the initiative to create a waterfront park on village-owned property, will take place Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. on Long Wharf.

A key component of the effort is the Art for the Park auction, hosted by Grenning Gallery, Romany Kramoris, Monika Olko Gallery, RJD Gallery, and Tulla Booth Gallery, which will include work by almost 60 artists that will be shown from 2 to 8 p.m. on Sunday and previewed before then on paddle8.com. Participating artists include John Alexander, Mary Ellen Bartley, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Brian Hunt, Laurie Lambrecht, Joe Pintauro, Dan Rizzie, and Lucy Winton. 

Other events will include a teen photography contest celebrating Sag Harbor, to be judged by the photographer Ralph Gibson and Mr. Fischl and exhibited at BuddhaBerry; a Taste of Sag Harbor, featuring local restaurants, vineyards, and food purveyors, and music by the HooDoo Loungers.

Advance tickets are $50 for adults, $10 for children, $60 and $15 at the door. They can be purchased at sagharborpartnership.org.

Halsey Mckay

Here and in N.Y.C.

Halsey Mckay Gallery is active on two fronts, with two new solo shows at its East Hampton location through July 18, and a third on view through Aug. 15 at its venue at 56 Henry Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

“Reflections on the Swamps of New Jersey” features new works by Timothy Bergstrom, for whom the application and manipulation of paint, which he pipes out of bags and flattens under papers and plastics, result in layered and complex abstract images.

“Potpourri” presents new watercolors by Keegan McHargue, whose work offers glimpses of the mysticism of daily life, among them lush pleasure gardens with fountains and cityscapes wrapped in arterial roadways.

Matt Rich’s exhibition, “Versify,” at the Henry Street location, consists of works based on the ampersand symbol, whose looping, intersecting lines he uses to build spatially complex paintings. 

Marburger Memorial Lecture

John Santlofer, the author of five crime novels, director of New York City’s Crime Fiction Academy, and a painter who has exhibited internationally, will deliver the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center’s annual John H. Marburger III Memorial Lecture at Guild Hall on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Titled — with apparent disregard for Polonius’s opinion about brevity — “Talkin’ ’Bout Reinvention, or the Complex Life of Art and Writing and Why Jackson Pollock Is Still an Inspiration,” the talk will bring Mr. Santlofer’s own experience with dual careers to bear on the more general theme of — you may have guessed it — the complex life of art and writing.

Tickets are $10, $8 for members of Guild Hall and the Pollock-Krasner House.

Ashley Bickerton at Tripoli

“Wall-Wall,” a show of new works by Ashley Bickerton, will open at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton tomorrow with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Aug. 8.

Mr. Bickerton rose to prominence in New York’s East Village Art scene in the early 1980s with his coolly abstract portraits. The new works, made in Bali, Indonesia, where the artist has lived since 1993, feature single and multi-panel wall facsimiles made of oil paint on fiberglass and resin-cast rocks set on plywood structures. 

New Paintings at Marcelle

“Scallop Pond,” recent paintings by Brian Rutenberg, will open Saturday at the Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and continue through July 17.

Mr. Rutenberg’s abstract paintings are deeply rooted in his early childhood memories of growing up in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Now based in New York City and Southampton, his recent work has been inspired by walks along the Peconic shoreline and kayaking on Scallop Pond.

The gallery will also host a talk by Will Clift, a sculptor whose delicate works focus on the interaction of form and balance, next Thursday at 5 p.m.

Art in a Barn

Johannes Vogt Gallery, located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, will bring “Summer Fling: The Barn Show,” an exhibition of work by more than 25 artists, to a historic barn in East Hampton from Saturday through July 31.

The exhibition will include traditional paintings, digital painting and photography, household appliances turned into sculptures, 3-D printed and conceptual wall works, video, web-based works, light sculpture, interactive video installations, and live performances.

More information and directions to the exhibition can be obtained by emailing [email protected] or calling 212-226-6966.

Bernice D’Vorzon at Adas Israel

Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will open “Dichotomies and Transformations: Genesis-Lilith-Shekhinah,” an exhibition of Jewish-themes works by Berenice D’Vorzon with a reception today from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Sept. 5.

The natural environment inspired Ms. D’Vorzon, who lived in New York City and Springs until her death in 2013. Her expressive paintings reflected her travels to the Arctic, the swamps of Florida and Louisiana, China, Bali, and the East End. 

Next Thursday evening at 8, the temple will present “Eva Hesse,” a new documentary on the pioneering artist, who died in 1970 at the age of 34. Her influential latex and fiberglass sculptures helped establish the importance of materials and process as an alternative to the sleek formalism of Minimal Art. The artist’s sister, Helen Charash, will attend the screening. A $10 donation has been suggested.

Eight at Kramoris

A group exhibition of work by eight artists will open today at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and continue through July 28, with a reception set for Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5:30. 

The show will include paintings, sculpture, collage, mixed media, and textiles. Participating artists are Bob Rothstein, Lianne Alcon, Jorge Silveira, Jennifer Levine, Patricia Feiwel, William Skrips, Stephen Palmer, and George Wazenegger.

Group Show in Water Mill

“AftermodernisM,” an exhibition of painting and sculpture by 33 artists, is on view at Nicole Ripka Gallery in Water Mill through Sept. 4. Organized by Neumann Wolfson Art, the work in the show emphasizes the coexistence of incongruous and unresolved ideas. Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, and Almond Zigmund are among the participating artists.

Ocean Pollution

“Plastic Ocean,” an exhibition that focuses on plastics pollution in our oceans, is on view at the Oceans Institute and Surf Museum at the Montauk Lighthouse through September. Organized by Scott Bluedorn, the show includes work by Cindy Pease Roe, Billy Strong, Peter Spacek, Rossa Cole, Mr. Bluedorn, and an installation by Greg Donahue. A reception will beheld Saturday, from 6 to 8 p.m.