The Art Scene: 07.27.17
NYFA Studio Tour
The New York Foundation for the Arts will hold its annual East End studio tour on Friday, Aug. 4. Led by Christina Mossaides Strassfield, Guild Hall’s museum director and chief curator, the group will visit the studios of Quentin Curry, Donald Lipski, Arlene Slavin, and Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas. The tour will conclude with a seated lunch with the artists, at a private home in Bridgehampton, at 1 p.m.
Mr. Curry’s work explores and blurs the boundaries between different mediums. His photographs resemble paintings, his paintings are object-like, and his sculptures register as objects built out of paint. Mr. Lipski is a sculptor best known for his installations and large-scale public works, which often combine a variety of materials and technologies in unexpected ways.
Ms. Slavin’s work has included public projects, murals, laser-cut steel sculpture, prints, and paintings that range from hard-edged abstraction to stylized figuration. Ms. Strong-Cuevas is known for her monumental sculptures in fabricated metal and cast bronze, and stainless steel, each of which is a meditation on the human face and the idea of thought traveling.
Tour members will meet at 9 a.m. at a Bridgehampton address that will be provided when tickets are purchased. Transportation is included. Tickets, which will benefit programs for artists throughout New York State, are $300 and can be purchased through eventbrite.com.
Women in Water
“Immerse,” a new series of paintings by Reisha Perlmutter, will be on view at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton from tomorrow through Aug. 27, with a reception set for Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m.
Ms. Perlmutter’s work explores the human body and its relationship to nature. The paintings in the exhibition portray women in water, alternately swimming, floating, and breaking through the surface. While her work evokes aspects of photorealism, the human forms are abstracted by the play of light moving through water and across the body.
Groot and Condon in Sag
The Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor is showing paintings by Barbara Groot and Thomas Condon from today through Aug. 17. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Ms. Groot finds the sun and light of the East End energizing, and her bold, active brushwork and layered use of color express the energy of the natural world without representing it literally.
Mr. Condon’s paintings range from meticulously rendered flowers to landscapes and portraits that, while figurative, are lent an element of abstraction through their unusual viewpoints or compositions.
Baron Von Fancy
Baron Von Fancy, a.k.a. Gordon Stevenson, will take over Boo-Hooray Summer Rental in Montauk from Saturday through Aug. 6. His work moves among mediums to experiment with concept, color, and humor.
He is especially known for his paintings and drawings in the style of classic hand-painted signage that range from song lyrics to homilies with an edge to straightforward, if sometimes profane, exclamations.
Show on the Road
Parrish Road Show, the Parrish Art Museum’s summer series of off-site exhibitions and installations, will feature a 35-mile-long public art project by Auto-Body, an artists’ collective based in Bellport, from Tuesday through Sept. 4.
The group will transform common roadside signs by placing text-based artworks along a stretch of Montauk Highway. Instead of promoting consumerism, the signs will call attention to the natural environment of the region while turning the thoroughfare into a space for viewing art.
Consisting of nature-themed colloquial phrases painted on wood boards, the signs highlight nearby natural sites, among them the Great South Bay, a bird sanctuary, a hiking trail, and a scenic outlook.
Two free receptions will be held, one at Bush Farms and Museum in Brookhaven on Aug. 12 from 3 to 5 p.m., and a second at the Parrish Art Museum on Aug. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. The project has been organized by Corinne Erni, the museum’s curator of special projects.
At the Art Barge
The Art Barge on Napeague will present “Greetings From,” an exhibition inspired by its location and mission, from tomorrow through Aug. 25. A reception will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.
The show was organized by Simran Johnston, who asked 10 artists to express the literal, emotional, political, or conceptual nature of their surroundings. It includes featured works and artist-made postcards, and visitors will be provided with materials to make their own postcard from the shores of Napeague Harbor.
Optimism in a Barn
“Unquestionable Optimism,” a group exhibition of work by more than 20 artists, will open tomorrow with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Aug. 13. The venue is a barn in East Hampton whose address can be obtained by contacting [email protected].
Organized by Lindsay Howard, the show brings together artists whose work focuses on positivity, often in an attempt to persuade, exaggerate, or cultivate a point of view.