The Art Scene 09.29.16

Dennis Snyder at Art Space 98

“Querencia,” an exhibition of paintings by Dennis Snyder, will open tomorrow at Art Space 98 in East Hampton with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will continue through Oct. 31.

Much of Mr. Snyder’s work has focused on the landscape of the East End, but he often adds unusual, sometimes surreal, elements. The Spanish word “Querencia” refers to the space to which a bull in the ring naturally gravitates. For Mr. Snyder, who has been influenced by Spanish art and culture, “The East End, the South Fork, is my querencia. I have always felt the spirit of this place, its soul. . . .”

Group Show at Ashawagh

Coco Myers and Kay Gibson have organized a group exhibition of painting, sculpture, and photography at Ashawagh Hall in Springs that will be on view Saturday and Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The show will include work by Perry Burns, Mary Ellen Bartley, Roisin Bateman, Philippe Cheng, Francine Fleischer, Janet Jennings, RTJ Haynes, Christine Matthai, Bastienne Schmidt, Mark Webber, and other East End artists.

Lipman-Wulf at Kramoris

Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present an exhibition of rarely seen watercolors created by Peter Lipman-Wulf while he was in exile from his native Germany, which he fled in 1933. The show will open with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through Nov. 21.

Mr. Lipman-Wulf is known primarily as a sculptor, but while a refugee in Switzerland and France he was prohibited from making sculpture and turned instead to watercolors, sketches, and drawings on paper of the landscape. Despite his tentative situation, the works have a hopeful, luminescent quality of settings untouched by war.

Three Approaches to Landscape

Ille Arts in Amagansett will present landscape works by Kamilla Talbot, Barbara Thomas, and Matthew J. Vega from Saturday through Oct. 24. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Ms. Talbot’s recent paintings of water in relation to the shore or the boat’s edge explore the perception of movement, reflection, and transparency.

While Ms. Thomas has built a reputation for her paintings of the East End landscape, her most recent work displays a more conceptual, internalized vision. Her work “The Day” consists of 24 painted wooden panels that reflect the passage of a day in the life of the planet. The paintings will be accompanied by a video.

Mr. Vega calls his paintings memory landscapes. He explains that “they are not painted from memories of landscapes but instead from memories of landscape paintings I have seen. There is an unquestioned trust in memories to recall brush stroke, color, and overall tone.”

Alice Aycock Talk

The Amagansett Library’s Art/History/Amagansett conversation series will conclude on Saturday at 6 p.m. with a program featuring the world-renowned sculptor Alice Aycock, who will be interviewed by Mark Segal, a culture writer for The Star.

Ms. Aycock is known for her large-scale site-specific works in such locations as Kennedy International Airport, the East River Park Pavilion in New York City, the San Francisco Public Library, Dulles International Airport, and many others. “Park Avenue Paper Chase,” a series of sculptures, was installed on that Manhattan thoroughfare in 2014. A retrospective of her drawings was held in 2013 at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.

The talk is free, but advance reservations are required.

About Billy Sullivan

The painter Billy Sullivan will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. to sign copies of his new book, “Still, Looking. Works 1969-2016,” and to talk about his art with Max Blagg, a poet and friend; Alicia Longwell, the museum’s chief curator, and Corinne Erni, the Parrish’s newly appointed curator of special projects.

Mr. Sullivan has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1971. His paintings and pastels are a record of a life fully lived in the art and cultural worlds of New York City and the East End. Though admittedly a diary of his life, his work captures fleeting moments with a bright spontaneity that transcends its specific subjects to become an extended meditation on time and place.

Tickets are $10, free for members and students.

Multiples in Montauk

“Multiples,” an exhibition of artist editions, is on view at the Atlantic Terrace Gallery in Montauk daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Oct. 16. Including editions in print media, ceramic, sculpture, and design, the show presents non-photographic work by East End and New York City artists that is meant to be reproduced and shared affordably. All work has been produced in numbered editions.

Participating artists are Christian Little, Kym Fulmer, Peter Spacek, Charles Ly, Evan Desmond Yee, Alex Reinwald, Dan Welden, Scott Bluedorn, Scott Meyers, Aimee Lusty, Micah B. Weiner, and Ryan Duff.

Plein Air in Amagansett

The plein-air oil paintings of Bob Sullivan, an artist from East Hampton, will be on view at the Amagansett Library from Saturday through Oct. 31. A reception will be held Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

While Mr. Sullivan has been painting seascapes on the East End for the past five years, most of the paintings in the show were completed this summer. Because he works outside and on location, he must work quickly, which leads to lively and spontaneous brushwork with a premium on realism.

Six Photographers at Canio’s

Canio’s Gallery in Sag Harbor will open “The Odd in the Ordinary,” a group exhibition of work by local photographers, with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Nov. 1.

Organized by Kathryn Szoka, the exhibition reflects what six photographers see as they observe the East End. Participants are Nancy Beckerman, Judy Faer, Tina Curran, Katarina Mesarovich, Jane Umanoff, and Heather Wojtusiak.

Solarplate Etchings

“Solarplate 2016,” an international juried exhibition of photographically based Solarplate etchings by 49 artists, will be on view at the Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue from Saturday through Nov. 13. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. 

Dan Welden, the originator of the Solarplate process and an internationally known printmaker, painter, and educator whose home and studio are in Sag Harbor, judged the exhibition.