The Art Scene 10.22.15
Four New Shows at Guild Hall
Christina Mossaides Strassfield, the museum director and chief curator of Guild Hall, will deserve a vacation after this weekend, when four exhibitions, all of which she organized, will open on Saturday afternoon with a reception from 4 to 6.
“Cornelia Foss” will survey the artist’s oil-on-canvas works from the late 1990s through 2014. The show will explore her organic affinity for nature, including bold blue seascapes and vast flat landscapes that place her in the tradition of such other East End painters as Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, Robert Dash, and Jane Wilson.
Speaking of landscapes, “A Sense of Place: Selections From the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection” will include works spanning three centuries inspired by the topography of the East End. Artists represented include Childe Hassam, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mary Nimmo Moran, Thomas Moran, Elaine de Kooning, James Brooks, Francesco Bologna, and many others.
“Portraying Artists: Photographs by Walter Weissman” will consist of 15 black-and-white photographs of some of the most interesting performing, fine, and literary artists of our time, among them Chuck Close, Ross Bleckner, Edward Albee, Billy Joel, Calvin Klein, Betty Friedan, and Robert Rauschenberg. The works range in date from 1983 to 2001.
“Dancing With Truffaut” features eight recent paintings by Stephanie Brody-Lederman, a two-time winner of top honors in the museum’s artist-member exhibitions. According to the artist, the show pays homage to the French filmmaker’s exploration of the seemingly small, ordinary aspects of everyday life.
The exhibitions will remain on view through Jan. 3, with the exception of “Portraying Artists,” which will run through Feb. 21.
VJS Artists at Ashawagh
The employees of VJS Studio, who by day frame the works of other artists, will exhibit their own artwork at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow from 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5. A reception will happen on Saturday from 6 to 10.
The show will include work in a variety of media — painting, photography,
mixed media, and textiles, by Eddie Cortes, Mary Daunt, AG Duggan, Claudia Dunn, Luc LeBoleis, and ORLOUARTS.
Paul Davis in Milan
“American Hotel,” a three-dimensional assemblage by the Sag Harbor artist Paul Davis, will be included in “Barfly,” an exhibition organized by Cristina Taverna, a Milan gallerist, as part of Bookcity Milano, a citywide festival that will take place today through Sunday.
Mr. Davis is one of 20 artists selected for the show, which is devoted to cafes and bars around the world that have attracted notable artists and writers. “American Hotel” consists of the artist’s own photograph of the bar, stones and seashells collected locally, a fragment of a recent poster by Mr. Davis with seagulls, a cigar box provided by the hotel’s proprietor, Ted Conklin, and other memorabilia.
Benefit at Mark Borghi N.Y.C.
“Artists and Animals,” a group exhibition for the benefit of Broadway Barks, will open Wednesday at Mark Borghi Fine Art’s Manhattan location and remain on view through Nov. 17. Among the artists participating are Hilary Knight, Jules Feiffer, Peter Beard, and Joel Grey. The show has been organized by the gallery and Julie Keyes of Keyes Art Consulting.
Broadway Barks provides a safe haven and seeks homes for abandoned animals. Proceeds from sales will benefit the Barc Shelter in Brooklyn.
Burt Glinn in London
The Serena Morton Gallery in London will present “Cuba 1959,” an exhibition of photographs by Burt Glinn, the noted photographer who worked with Magnum Photos, from Wednesday through Nov. 20.
Mr. Glinn, who lived in East Hampton until his death in 2008, caught the last flight to Cuba from Miami on New Year’s Day 1959 and proceeded to capture in pictures the idealism, mayhem, and excitement of the first days of the Cuban revolution, including Fidel Castro’s entrance into Havana.