The Art Scene: 11.24.11
Two on the Rise
Davenport and Shapiro Fine Arts in East Hampton will show the work of two artists, Eddie Rehm and Emanuel Buckyar, beginning tomorrow with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. Long Island painters, they are fresh to the scene but rising in reputation.
“We were intrigued by the collaboration between two artists with distinct styles, one almost disturbingly energetic, and the other . . . calming for all its now almost classical allusions to the AbEx tradition,” said Leonard Davenport, a partner in the gallery.
The exhibit is on view through Dec. 30.
A Holiday Salon
Bridgehampton’s Silas Marder Gallery will hold a “Holiday Salon” show beginning tomorrow with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. The show includes, on the first floor, paintings and works on paper by gallery artists. An installation, “Architecture of a Bomb,” by Ben Butler and Michael Rosch remains in the loft through December.
The Marders garden center will have its 38th annual open house, starting tomorrow at 8 a.m., also on Saturday and Sunday, with shopping, cookies, hot cider, and live music.
Thanksgiving Collective
The Tripoli Gallery in Southampton will present a “Thanksgiving Collective 2011” show, with work by Michael Chiarello, Eric Freeman, Felix Bonilla Gerena, Melanie J. Moczarski, John Ross Rist, and Darius Yektai.
Tripoli Patterson has been organizing the exhibits for seven years running. This year’s features old friends and welcomes new artists — Mr. Chiarello, a Bridgehampton sculptor, and Ms. Moczarski, a Brooklyn painter. The show will open with a reception for the artists on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Landscape Award
John Haubrich of East Hampton received the Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Traditional Landscape Painting in Oil from the American Artists Professional League at the group’s annual meeting on Nov. 6 in New York City. His work “Ice Flow” was selected from among 121 entries.
AbEx Meets Digital
Beginning on Saturday, Andrew Hart Adler and Carolyn Beegan will show their collaborative work at the Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art gallery on Job’s Lane in Southampton. Their work joins oil painting and digital photography.
Mr. Adler, an Abstract Expressionist painter, worked with Willem de Kooning in the 1970s. Ms. Beegan is an oil painter but a specialist in digital imaging as well. Together their work becomes a hybrid that balances elements of each.
A reception will be held on Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m.
Death Talk in Bridge
A gallery talk on the exhibit “In Memory of: An Exhibition on Death & Mourning in Victorian America” will be given on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Historical Society’s Corwith House.
The exhibit and the talk by Julie Greene, the curator, focus on the effect that Queen Victoria’s extended period of mourning in the late-19th century had on this side of the Atlantic. According to the historical society, the queen’s popularity among her subjects and Americans led to a “cult of mourning” that continued even after her death.
Ms. Greene’s talk will explore the customs and practices surrounding death and mourning during those years. The exhibit will remain open through February. Another talk will be given on Dec. 30 at 5 p.m.