The Art Scene 10.29.15

Carpentier Featured At Ashawagh

“Images of Accabonac,” an exhibition organized by the Accabonac Protection Committee, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 11 to 4. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8.

The show will feature approximately 50 works and will include a special exhibition of paintings by Ralph Carpentier, the dean of East Hampton landscape painters. The committee selects works that have been inspired by the beauty of the harbor and its Springs surroundings in a broad, rather than literal, sense.

The committee was formed in 1985 by residents concerned about real estate development around the harbor. Today, with 900 members, it continues to address issues relating to the harbor and its watershed. A portion of proceeds from the sale of artworks will benefit the committee.

Land and Seascapes At Drawing Room

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present “Perspectives on Land, Sea, and Sky,” an exhibition of work by Robert Dash, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, and Jane Wilson, from tomorrow through Dec. 7.

At a time when Abstract Expressionism all but defined American art, the four painters, friends and integral members of the East End’s community of artists and writers, developed alternative approaches in expanding the realist tradition.

The exhibition, which will highlight the artists’ focus on the region’s land and seascapes, will include Porter’s sketchbook pages of the 1960s and 1970s and paintings, both intimate and large-scale, by Wilson, Freilicher, and Dash.

“Haunting Houses” at Parrish

In a nod toward Halloween, the Parrish Art Museum’s Architectural Sessions series, co-presented with AIA Peconic, will take up the theme of “Haunting Houses” tomorrow at 6 p.m. Maziar Behrooz, an East Hampton architect who hosts the series, will discuss with fellow architects whether specific projects or their practices in general have been haunted in such a way as to find expression in built or unbuilt projects. The disturbing influence need not be confined to architecture but can be

a film, artwork, image, or event. Tickets are $10, free for members and students.

Motherwell Collages

The Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea will present an exhibition of important collage works created by Robert Motherwell from the late 1950s to the late 1970s, the most prolific period of his collage practice, from tomorrow through Dec. 5. A reception will be held tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

Motherwell, who had a studio in East Hampton from 1944 to 1952, considered collage the greatest creative innovation of the 20th century and returned to that medium throughout his career. Using elements such as artists’ materials, travel ephemera, and wine and tobacco labels, he was able to develop a mode of expression more intimate, playful, and autobiographical than his paintings.

Mary Heilmann in Chelsea

“Geometrics: Waves, Roads, Etc.,” an exhibition of new work by Mary Heilmann, will open at 303 Gallery in Chelsea next Thursday and continue through Dec. 19. A reception will happen next Thursday evening from 6 to 8.

The show will include an arrangement of paintings on canvas and handmade paper, glazed ceramics, and a group of her furniture sculptures. Many works were inspired by waves and roads, which move, travel, and interlock. In some, pure geometry is offset by expressive undulations.

The artist’s chairs, an installation of which was on view in the Whitney Museum’s outdoor gallery from May through September, encourage viewers to sit, linger, and engage with the paintings, each other, and themselves.