At The Galleries: Paintings and Photographs
The Arlene Bujese Gallery will open two exhibits, one of paintings and pastels by Paul Brach and the other of photographs by Anne Sager and Evelene Wechsler, with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Mr. Brach will show a selection of paintings from his "Aura" series in oil on canvas, and a series of recent pastels. The oil paintings, with their Western mountain imagery, are oval-shaped variations on a series that was shown at Guild Hall last year.
Ms. Sager will show a series of high-contrast photographs she has taken of East End gas pumps and Ms. Wechsler, who is having her first show at the gallery, will show color prints of animals taken while on safari in Africa.
All three artists live at least part of the year in East Hampton. The show will run through Nov. 24.
Jean-Michel Correia
RVS Fine Arts in Southampton will show the work of the French artist Jean-Michel Correia for the month of November.
Mr. Correia is a minimalist painter of geometric forms using acrylic paint where the surface is scraped away, creating depth and texture. He lives and works in Paris, where he is artistic director of the Union of Decorative Arts in the division of the Louvre called the Ateliers du Carrousel.
The artist has exhibited with the gallery for 10 years and returns this year with his signature square canvases along with a new series of mixed-media works of collaged cotton and metal and wood fragments on handmade paper.
There will be a reception on Nov. 16 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Ides Of March
Philip Pavia's monumental sculpture "The Ides of March" has been cleaned and restored and will go on permanent display in the lobby of Manhattan's Hippodrome Building, 1120 Avenue of the Americas.
The sculpture, in 1960 the largest bronze abstraction in the world, was first displayed outside the Hilton Hotel. It was removed when the hotel was redesigned and its entrance changed. A reception to celebrate the work's return to public view after a hiatus of eight years will be held on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Dougenis Elected
Miriam Dougenis of Sag Harbor has been elected a member of the National Association of Women Artists. She will be officially recognized at a meeting on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at which time slides of her work will be shown.
Ms. Dougenis, who designed the covers of The Star's last two gardening supplements, is active in arts organizations in East Hampton and Southampton and her work has been exhibited nationwide. She is the organizer of the current Jimmy Ernst Artists Alliance show, which can be seen at the LTV Studios through Nov. 25.
Vietnamese Shipment
The Nabi Gallery in Sag Harbor has just received a shipment of furniture from Vietnam, which will be on display together with a selection of works by gallery artists until January.
The pieces include tables, chests, chairs, boxes, and other items in classical Vietnamese form. All are crafted in rosewood and flower ebony at a workshop in Hanoi, for which the gallery is the exclusive distributor in this country.
The paintings on display include work by Anthony H. Stubbing, Roy Nicholson, Rae Ferren, Lewis Zacks, Hilary Knight, and Leo Revi, as well as the Korean artists Noh Young June and Dae Woong Nam.
Albert Reception
A reception will be held next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Avram Family Gallery of Southampton College for the show of sculpture by Calvin Albert currently on exhibit in the adjacent Fine Arts Gallery.
The show includes large-scale bronze, terra-cotta, and fiberglass sculptures by the artist, who now lives in Boca Raton, Fla.
Other News
Arlene Slavin of Wainscott has an exhibit of screens and work in metal, "Genesis: In the Beginning," at Hebrew Union College in Manhattan through Jan. 9. She will give a talk about her work on Sunday. The college has more details.
Joan Liebowitz, an art collector who lives at 15 Shadow Lane, Springs, is selling original contemporary works by American and European artists from her collection on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through December.