The Art Scene: 10.26.17
Five at Ashawagh
“Illuminations,” an exhibition of work by five East End artists who take different approaches to the landscape as subject, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 11 to 4.
During an opening reception on Saturday from 4 to 8, 20 percent of all sales will benefit Share the Harvest Farm, an East Hampton nonprofit dedicated to growing and donating produce to food pantries and community centers. Appetizers featuring the farm’s organically grown produce will be served.
Participating artists are John Todaro, a photographer, and Cynthia Loewen, Frank Sofo, Teresa Lawler, and Lynn Martell, who are painters.
New at Halsey Mckay
Two exhibitions, “New Information,” a solo show of work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and one that pairs Betty Tompkins and Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, will open at the Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton with a reception Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6 and continue through Jan. 6.
Ms. Rafferty works in a variety of mediums, including painting, performance, video, and photography, often transforming photographs and images into material objects. “New Information” features small-scale, photo-based plastic works that represent “the synthesis and absorption of images and texts in daily life,” according to a press release.
In the late-1960s, Ms. Tompkins began a series of large paintings of genitalia and sexual acts, closely cropped and with blunt, deadpan detail, which have been censored and labeled as pornography. Mr. Bernadet’s abstract paintings take the medium itself as their subject.
The French critic and curator Eric Troncy, who first hung their seemingly unrelated works together in a 2015 gallery exhibition, has said that, despite the generational and visual differences between their work, “exposing their painterly differences seemed precisely the means of emphasizing the importance of painterly craft to both.”
Paintings, Sculpture at Ille
“The Immensity of Particles,” a show of paintings by Emily Cheng, and “After Argos,” recent bronze and glass sculpture by Marianne Weil, will be on view at Ille Arts in Amagansett from Saturday through Nov. 27, with a reception to be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
For more than two decades, Ms. Cheng’s paintings have been structured around large circular and floral forms that “radiate outward into planetary orbs, tendrils, and vertebrae-like networks,” according to the critic Jennifer Samet.
Ms. Weil’s sculpture combines blown formed glass, lost-wax cast bronze, and copper into unusual and expressive vessels, often welded to steel stands, that merge the fragility of glass with the durability of metal.
Opening at White Room
The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present two solo exhibitions, “Hidden Desires” by Ann Brandeis and “Horse Show” by June Kaplan, from today through Nov. 12. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Ms. Brandeis’s photographs are from her ongoing series, “The Landscape of Memory,” which combines realism with some of the techniques of Surrealism, among them the alteration of space, perspective, tonality, and focus.
Ms. Kaplan will show paintings and mixed-media representations of horses, whose stylized, swooping curves are rendered in profile and often set off by dripped paint, scribbles, and other abstract elements.
A group show of work by Anna Fenimore, Alyssa Peek, Zoe Breen, Kevin Bishop, Asia Lee, Kat O’Neill, and Melissa Hin will also be on view.
East End Artists in Quogue
“Fall Collective: Celebrating East End Artists” will be on view at the Quogue Library’s art gallery from Saturday through Nov. 30. Participating artists are Ellen Ball, Claudia Baez, Carolyn Conrad, Christopher Engel, Barbara Groot, John Haubrich, Virva Hinnemo, Dean Johnson, Fulvio Massi, Anne Raymond, Will Ryan, and Dan Welden. A reception will take place Nov. 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Haim Mizrahi in Sag
“Visions of the Abstract: The Jerusalem Series,” paintings by the East Hampton artist Haim Mizrahi, will be on view at the art gallery at the Center for Jewish Life at 36 West Water Street in Sag Harbor from Saturday through Dec. 5, with a reception set for Saturday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Mr. Mizrahi, who was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States in 1983, created the paintings during an extended stay in Jerusalem, where he was inspired by the city’s ancient and modern contrasts, which are harmonized in his work.