The Art Scene 08.18.16
Solo Show at Fireplace Project
“Boxing the Compass,” a solo exhibition of work by Grear Patterson, will open at the Fireplace Project in Springs with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 18.
Mr. Patterson, who lives in New York City, is a mixed-media artist who works in film, photography, painting, and sculpture to explore popular culture, imagery and processes of perception, and recurrent motifs.
Art in Montauk
The Montauk Artists’ Association will hold its 22nd annual juried fine art show on the Montauk Green tomorrow from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The green will be jam-packed with painting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, glass, ceramics, fiber and wearable art, mixed media, woodworking, and every other imaginable form of art and craft. Admission is free, and the artisans will be on hand to discuss their work.
Zines at Ille Arts
Ille Arts in Amagansett will hold “Zine East,” its second show of zines, or handmade artists’ books, tomorrow through Sunday. “We invite artists from all over the United States to participate,” said Sara DeLuca, the gallery’s director. “This year the participants range from a high school junior to 1970s artists.”
The chosen artists are asked to submit 20 copies of a zine and price them reasonably, for $20 or less. The gallery doesn’t take a cut; it sells them and sends the money to the artists.
“Zines are affordable, tradeable, and collectible,” said Ms. DeLuca. “Major museums around the world are creating their own zine libraries.” The zine phenomenon began in the 1970s, coinciding with the Punk movement in music and art, and remained something of an underground enterprise until recently.
Artist-Inspired Surfboards
Tim Bessell, a maker of custom surfboards based in La Jolla, Calif., will have two concurrent exhibitions of boards from his artist series at the Chase Edwards Gallery in Bridgehampton and the Dorian Grey Gallery in Water Mill. Opening receptions will be held at both galleries on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m., and both shows will run through Sept. 17.
Chase Edwards will show the most recent series of Andy Warhol surfboards, produced in partnership with the Warhol Foundation. Dorian Grey will feature a new series of Kenny Scharf surfboards, created in partnership with Mr. Scharf and the Artist Rights Society.
First Novel by Helen Harrison
Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, has written her first novel, “An Exquisite Corpse: Death in Surrealist New York,” a mystery set in the sexually liberated New York art world of the 1940s.
A mixture of fact and invention, the book follows a detective investigating the murder of the Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam in his Greenwich Village studio. Suspicion falls on the circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Europe during World War II. The book’s title refers to a Surrealist party game in which four players contribute to a drawing without being able to see the other participants’ images.
Susan Tepper at Tripoli
“Susan Tepper: Paintings 1978-1983” will open Saturday at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 19.
The first solo exhibition of the artist’s work since 1989, the show will include 22 abstracted faces made from a combination of acrylic, conté crayon, and collage on Masonite, most of them bald, their genders indeterminate.
A selection of collage and acrylic paintings from the artist’s “100 Women” series will also be included. Her portraits and expressive, often turbulent images of the female body explore identity, gender, and societal issues of the late 20th century.
Ms. Tepper co-founded the Center for Contemporary Art in East Hampton in 1985 and worked at her Georgica Road studio until her death in 1991 at the age of 47.
New at Nightingale
The Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will open “Autonomous Vehicles,” a group exhibition, on Tuesday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will continue through Sept. 27.
Participating artists are Scott Bluedorn, Perry Burns, Cara Enteles, ESSAM, Yuliya Lanina, Christian Little, Christa Maiwald, Alexis Martino, Scott Sandell, and Even Yee.
Among the questions the exhibition addresses, according to Ms. Nightingale, are, “What is autonomy, and who or what possesses it? Can those who are marginalized or disenfranchised attain it? How will we as a society transition into abdicating our responsibilities and
freedom to machines. . .?”
Sculpture Talk at CMEE
Eleanora Kupencow will give a free lecture at the Children’s Museum of the East End on her sculpture, “Horsing Around With the Arrows of Time,” next Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Originally installed in 2008 at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and subsequently at the Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO, Brooklyn, the piece was permanently situated on the grounds of the museum in 2014. Ms. Kupencow divides her time between New York City and Southampton.
Christopher Engel at Kramoris
“Figures + Abstracts,” a show of recent paintings by Christopher Engel, will be on view from today through Sept. 1 at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor. A reception will be held Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5:30.
Mr. Engel, an artist and teacher who incorporates Jungian philosophy and techniques in his arts workshops, includes mystical and dreamlike images of figures and faces in some of his paintings, and ancient patterns, letters, and symbols in his abstract works. The artist, who lives in Sag Harbor, is the director of community programs at the Ross School.
Heckscher Honors
East End Artists
Three East End artists have received awards of merit from the judges of the Heckscher Museum of Art’s 2016 Long Island Biennial, which will be on view from Sept. 3 through Dec. 4.
Monica Banks of East Hampton, Philippe Cheng of Bridgehampton, and Jeff Muhs of Southampton were among the five recipients of the award. The other winners were Lisa Federici of Wantagh and Jeanette Martone of Bay Shore.