The Art Scene 09.18.14

Solow at Whaling Museum

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will open “City Square/Piazza,” an installation by Peter Solow, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through Oct. 13.

Mr. Solow, who lives in Sag Harbor, had his first solo show in New York City at the age of 29. In a review, John Russell, art critic of The New York Times, called him “someone to watch.”

While he has concentrated on large-scale oil paintings throughout his career, the Whaling Museum show is, in the artist’s words, “a reflection on how to make art, as much as about content.” He will show a series of composites in which his own drawings, paintings, and photographs are scanned, manipulated digitally, and printed as layered images on canvas, on which he then paints.

Many of the images are of piazzas, a recurring subject in his paintings and works on paper and a result of his many visits to Italy.

Call for Entries

Artists have been invited to submit work for the 2014 Hamptons Juried Art Show, a benefit for the Retreat, by Sept. 26. The jurors will be Janet Goleas, curator at the Islip Art Museum, and Christina Strassfield, chief curator and museum director of Guild Hall.

The top 25 entries will be exhibited at the Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery in Sag Harbor in 2014. The three judged Best in Show will have their own exhibition at the gallery in 2015.

The entry fee is $50, and all fees benefit the Retreat, an East End agency serving victims of domestic violence. For guidelines, submissions, and payment, artists can visit hamptonsjuriedartshow.com.

Arts Sites Exhibition

“Out of Time,” an exhibition exploring the divergent approaches to art-making of Andrea and Pierre Cote, will open at Art Sites Gallery in Riverhead Saturday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will remain on view through Oct. 26.

Ms. Cote will exhibit photographs created from images and negatives originally taken in 1998. The reassembled works bring the past into a dialogue with the present, with rust and decayed pictorial elements serving as markings of the passage of time.

Mr. Cote creates sculptures from found objects showing wear and use from the 19th century to the present. By combining dissimilar materials and parts into new and often witty constructions, he, too, establishes a conversation between past and present.

Ms. Cote will also show a video, “Double Face,” in “Narcissism and the Self-Portrait,” a group exhibition at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, N.Y., from Sept. 27 through Nov. 22, and will exhibit a new hair-painting on silk tapestry at the Islip Art Museum as part of a group show, “It’s Getting Hairy,” from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1.

Ted Davies at Kramoris

“American Icons: New York City,” an exhibition of woodblock prints created between 1959 and 1969 by Ted Davies, will open today at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and remain on view through Oct. 9. An opening reception will take place on Saturday from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

The artist, who died in 1993, lived in Sag Harbor and New York City. The works to be exhibited depict the people and places of the city in an era of Chinese laundries, neighborhood bars, shoeshine stands, men wearing hats, and the el, the Third Avenue/Bronx elevated railway. Pedestrians in the prints interact with each other rather than with their cellphones.

Also on view will be his “Cards of Life, Cards of Death,” whose social criticism and satire place him in the tradition of Hogarth and Daumier. According to Christina Schlesinger, an artist and cultural historian, “His vision of the city is intimate and amused, catching the quirky details and human touches, the city’s hard edges softened into tilts, curves, and loops.”

“Living Color” in Bridge

“Living Color,” an exhibition of 50 works on canvas and paper by J. Steven Manolis, will open Saturday with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. at Chase Edwards Contemporary Fine Art in Bridgehampton, where it will remain on view through Oct. 20.

Mr. Manolis, who lives in Water Mill and Palm Beach, Fla., was a student of Wolf Kahn and a trustee of the Vermont Studio Center. His abstract paintings use the dynamics and beauty of color combinations to “evoke human emotions,” in the artist’s words.

Open Studio in Springs

Ruth Nasca, a Springs artist, will open her studio on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Small drawings and paintings will be on view at 11 Karlsruhe, off Three Mile Harbor Road. A call to 324-2650 will provide more information.

Shields and Shiflett in New York

“Thread Lines,” an exhibition opening today at the Drawing Center in SoHo with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., will include work by Drew Shiflett of East Hampton and New York City and Alan Shields, who lived on Shelter Island until his death in 2005.

The show, which will run through Dec. 14, features artists who engage in sewing, knitting, and weaving to create works that show the affinities between the mediums of textile and drawing.

From the late 1960s on, Shields, whose grandmother taught him to sew, used a variety of materials and processes in the creation of works that took painting off the stretcher and extended the boundaries of the medium. “Alan Shields: In Motion” will open at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Oct. 14.

Ms. Shiflett has had solo exhibitions on the East End at Guild Hall, the Islip Art Museum, and the Drawing Room, and in New York City at Lesley Heller Gallery, White Columns, and Fashion Moda. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.