The Art Scene: 10.23.14
New at Harper’s
Harper’s Books in East Hampton will open “Brad Phillips: Law and Order” with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will continue through Jan. 5.
Mr. Phillips, who is based in Toronto, takes his inspiration from high and low culture. His paintings oscillate between text and image and range from realistic renderings of people and objects to paintings of slogans, faux book covers, medical prescriptions, and verbal puns. He toys with the relationship between text and its representation, using commercial fonts, faux ransom lettering, and brightly colored words with often sordid messages.
The artist has exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide and has been awarded grants from the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Jane Wilson in New York
DC Moore Gallery in Manhattan is celebrating Jane Wilson’s 60-year career with an exhibition of her rarely seen 1960s cityscapes inspired by the city’s Tompkins Square Park, as well as recent landscapes. The show will continue through Nov. 1.
Ms. Wilson, who lives in New York and Water Mill, has been a leading landscape painter since the late 1950s, when she began painting atmospheric views of the park and its surrounding neighborhood.
Her more recent paintings, which hover between abstraction and representation, are inspired by the sea, sky, and landscape of the East End. However, in her words, “My landscapes are not painted on-site or from photographs. They come out of my mind . . . out of my bones, really.”
Ms. Wilson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, and many others.
Gabriele Raacke in Springs
“Front and Back,” a solo show of new paintings on glass by Gabriele T. Raacke, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow through Sunday. A reception will be held tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m.
While Ms. Raacke, who lives in East Hampton, works in collage and acrylic on canvas, she is best known for her glass pieces, in which the image is applied to one side of the glass, in reverse, and viewed through the other, as if through a window.
The exhibition will include new works featuring fairy-tale like scenes of imaginary animals and people, large flower paintings, and abstract work, all informed by Ms. Raacke’s wry sense of humor and a touch of the surreal.