The Art Scene 09.15.16

Gabriele Raacke at Ashawagh

“Glass Menagerie,” a solo show of work by the East Hampton artist Gabriele T. Raacke, will open tomorrow at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sunday.

For several decades Ms. Raacke has used glass as her canvas, painting in reverse on the backs of everything from dinner plates to recycled windows from local demolitions. Her fanciful images, influenced by Grimms’ fairy tales, include animals, acrobats, and circus performers.

With “Glass Menagerie” she has used recycled bottles to fashion a band of three-dimensional, doll-sized characters that evoke imaginary stories, much like the surrealism of her paintings. The figures will be installed on a circular stage equipped with mechanical turntables, adding a fourth dimension, time.

News from Pollock-Krasner

Christina Weyl, the guest curator of “Innovation and Abstraction: Women Artists and Atelier 17,” on view at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs through Oct. 29, will be one of four speakers at a two-day series of talks on the workshop at the Syracuse University Art Galleries on Friday, Sept. 23, and Sept. 24. The university galleries are presenting “About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17” through Nov. 20.

The Pollock-Krasner House has also announced that “Abstract Expressionism,” the first comprehensive show in the United Kingdom on that art movement since 1958, will be on view at London’s Royal Academy of Art from Sept. 24 through Jan. 2. Among the highlights of the exhibition, which will include more than 150 works, will be Jackson Pollock’s monumental “Mural” from 1943, on loan from the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and his 1952 “Blue Poles,” lent by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

Additional evidence of Pollock’s enduring importance will be provided by the Kunstmuseum Basel, which will open “The Figurative Pollock” on Oct. 2. The exhibition will be the first-ever dedicated to the artist’s representational and pictographic work, including later paintings incorporating figurative imagery.

Amagansett Art Talks

Art/History/Amagansett, the Amagansett Library’s fall series of conversations and seminars about art and artists, will present “How It All Began: Halsey Mckay Gallery” on Saturday at 6 p.m. Hilary Schaffner, co-founder with Ryan Wallace of the East Hampton gallery, and Patrick Brennan, a gallery artist, will talk about the New York and East End art worlds. Douglas F. Maxwell, a New York University professor and art advisor, will moderate.

On Sunday at 6, Colin Goldberg, founder and creative director of Everbeta, a website, logo, and print design company, will discuss “Website and Social Media Savvy” with the artist Steve Miller.

Artists Studio Tour

The Artists Alliance of East Hampton will hold its 29th annual Artists Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., when 16 artists will open their studios to the public. The free, self-guided tour will be followed at 4:30 by a reception at the residence of Peter Gumpel, the alliance’s president.

The studios are located in Amagansett, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, and Sag Harbor. A map and information about participating artists is available at aaeh.org.

Long Island Biennial

Nineteen East End artists are represented in the 2016 Long Island Biennial, which is on view at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington through Dec. 4.

Selected artists are Monica Banks, Roisin Bateman, Philippe Cheng, Janet Culbertson, Roz Dimon, Alex Ferrone, Hector deCordova, Gerry Giliberti, Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, Janet Jennings, Setha Low, Jane Martin, Hildy Maze, Jeff Muhs, Camille Perrottet, Mark Seidenfeld, Kathryn Szoka, Marianne Weil, and Gavin Zeigler.

Call for Photographs

The Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue has announced an open call for submissions for a juried show of small photographic works, with the circle as the theme. Works must depict how the circle, or circles, plays an integral role in the composition, form, design, or subject matter, and must not exceed 14-by-14 inches, framed.

The exhibition will open Nov. 26 and run through Feb. 15. The $40 submission fee covers up to three images. The submission deadline is Oct. 3; more information can be found on the gallery’s website.

Blind Drawing

At 5 p.m. today, Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will host “Elul Art Unwind,” a program that will include a “blind drawing” demonstration by Michelle Muri-Sloane, an artist from Washington, D.C., and a coloring session for participants.

Blind drawing, which involves drawing a subject without looking at the paper, strengthens hand-eye coordination, according to the artist. After the demonstration, each participant will receive a coloring book and tools, and their efforts will be raffled off at the end of the program

The program is a social event, according to the temple, designed for adults to unwind “while learning, gathering, noshing, and coloring.” The fee for materials is $5.

East End in Bushwick

“Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: Part II,” a group exhibition opening tomorrow at Art Helix in Bushwick, has been organized by Janet Goleas, a curator, critic, and artist from East Hampton, and Peter Hopkins, the gallery’s director. The show, which is limited to artworks that are black, white, and/or red, includes work by the East End artists Karen Hesse Flatow, Bonnie Rychlak, and Brian Gaman. It will be on view through Oct. 16.