The Art Scene 12.04.14

Five Young Contemporaries

The Parrish Art Museum has developed the Parrish Contemporaries Circle, for younger patrons of the museum ages 21 to 45. The group will offer access to six art-related events and experiences each year on the East End and the New York metropolitan area. These will include private collection and artist’s studio tours and networking events.

On Tuesday, the first such event will take place at the FLAG Art Foundation in Manhattan, where Eric Fischl will be there to discuss the exhibition “Disturbing Innocence.”

Future events will include a tour of Fred Seegal’s art collection in New York City, a midwinter party hosted by David Burke Group New York, a cocktail reception and walkthrough of the exhibition “Chuck Close Photographs” at the Parrish with its director, Terrie Sultan, a tour of the museum’s art vault, and tours of North Fork artists’ studios.

The membership, which includes other benefits, will cost $350 annually. More information is available by contacting Melissa Gatz at [email protected].

Brodsky’s Blueprints

“Plans,” an exhibition of recent ink-on-silk works by Eugene Brodsky, an artist with studios in East Hampton and New York City, is on view at Sears-Peyton Gallery in Chelsea through Dec. 20.

The works reflect Mr. Brodsky’s fascination with the blueprints and sketches of significant 20th-century architecture, especially “the worked-on, tattered, erased, and notated records of how something came to be.” Each piece fuses his vision with that of an architect or planner, resulting in images that suggest, but do not replicate, their origins.

Mr. Brodsky has described these pieces as “essentially creating a jigsaw puzzle of silk,” a complicated process that includes drawing, collage, vector conversion, laser-cutting, inking, silk-stretching, pinning, and assembly, processes that, in the artist’s words, “remain mostly invisible to the viewer, who rightly just sees what’s there.”