The Art Scene 11.10.16

Lots of Locals at Ashawagh

“Uncommon,” a group exhibition presented by Hampton Photo, Arts, and Framing in Bridgehampton, will open at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with a reception on Saturday from 5:30 to 11 p.m. and continue on Sunday from 10 to 3.

The exhibition, organized by Franki Mancinelli, will feature more than 35 “unconventional” artists, among them Scott Bluedorn, Carly Haffner, Peter Ngo, Adam Baranello, and Miles Partington. The reception will include food, cocktails, and music by William Falkenberg.

The Leibers in Chelsea

“The Artist and Artisan,” an exhibition of work by Gerson and Judith Leiber, will open today at the Flomenhaft Gallery in Chelsea with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will run through Dec. 30.

The artists, whose work is on view at the Leiber Collection in Springs from Memorial Day through Labor Day, met in 1945 in Budapest, and married and sailed to the United States a year later. 

Ms. Leiber’s handbags, which are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others, have been carried by first ladies to most inaugural balls since 1953.

Mr. Leiber, a noted painter and printmaker whose work is included in the collections of more than 60 museums, is also the creator of seven acres of garden “rooms” on the Springs property.

Mixed Media in Brooklyn

The A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn will present “Overlap: Life Tapestries,” a group exhibition of photographs, fabric collage, clothing, video, paintings, and drawings by eight artists, from next Thursday through Dec. 18. A reception will be held next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The show will include three East End artists — Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, and Linda Stein — and Sascha Mallon, Michela Martello, Shari Wechsler Rubeck, Martha Wilson, and Kumi Yamashita. A conversation among Vida Sabbaghi, curator of the exhibition, Karen Keifer-Boyd, a professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State, Ms. Schmidt, and Ms. Stein will follow the reception.

Helen Harrison in London

Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, will be among the lecturers this weekend at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in connection with the exhibition “Abstract Expressionism: Expressions of Change.”

Her talk, “Inside the Abstract Expressionist Studio,” will consider the practices of a representative group of artists and how their approaches define or contradict what we now call Abstract Expressionism.

At Halsey Mckay N.Y.C.

The second installment of Ben Blatt’s “Hovering” will open at the Halsey Mckay Gallery’s New York City space at 56 Henry Street with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. 

Mr. Blatt’s new paintings, his most abstract to date, explore the limitations of the pixelated image and the illusion of reality in the digital landscape. A previous iteration of “Hovering” took place at Halsey Mckay in East Hampton in September.