The Art Scene 10.15.15
Furniture and Photographs
Ille Arts in Amagansett will show furniture by Andy Ring and photographs by Bart Julius Peters and Julius Shulman from tomorrow through Nov. 1. A reception will take place Oct. 24 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Formerly a software engineer, Mr. Ring made the switch to construction in 2002 and, within several years, began to concentrate on custom furniture for architects and fabrication projects for artists. He divides his time between Montauk and Brooklyn, where he has a shop in the Navy Yard.
Mr. Shulman, who died in 2009, was a noted architectural photographer who specialized in Modernist buildings, many of them California houses by such architects as Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Oscar Niemeyer. He was one of the first to stage his photographs as tableaus including people in their homes.
Mr. Peters’s coarse-grained blackand-white photographs appear much older than they are, creating a sense of nostalgia, romance, and timelessness.
Flo Lunn is the curator of the photography show.
Three at Ashawagh
Ashawagh Hall in Springs will show work by Annie Sessler, John Todaro, and Sarah Jaffe Turnbull on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8.
Ms. Sessler, who lives in Montauk, is known for her monoprints, which have been inspired by Japanese gyotaku, or fish printing. She uses water-soluble, non-toxic inks and freshly caught fish to make handmade relief prints on recycled, vintage, and new natural and synthetic fabrics.
A full-time photographer since 1987, Mr. Todaro, who lives in East Hampton, has been published, collected, and exhibited widely. The Ashawagh show will include new work in both black and white and color, along with a series of recent botanical abstractions.
Ms. Jaffe has been making ceramic sculpture in recent years, beginning with a series of heads and moving into abstract architectonic structural pieces. The exhibition will include a group of wall plaques that imagine the surface of dwarf planets. She lives in Bridgehampton.
Watermill’s Open Rehearsal
The Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of Amy Khoshbin’s “The Myth of Layla,” a work in progress that incorporates performance and video, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
An artist-in-residence at the center this month, Ms. Khoshbin uses her personal history as an Iranian-American activist in the work, which is set in a near future when the United States is at war with Iran. She performs as Layla, the protagonist, whose relationships and beliefs are put to the test as her fame increases and she is cast in a new reality show.
The show is co-directed by Liz McAuliffe, a dance and performance artist. Both Ms. Khoshbin and Ms. McAuliffe have performed extensive-ly at museums, festivals, and arts centers, among them the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New Museum, and Judson Church. The program is free, but advance reservations, which can be made at the center’s website, are required.
New at Tulla Booth
“Fall Treasures,” a show of new and classic photographs, is on view through Nov. 23 at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Theparticipating photographers are Daniel Jones, Roberto Dutesco, Stephen Wilkes, and Eric Meola.