Ille Arts Moves To LaCarrubba’s

After a three-month hiatus, Ille Arts will reopen at a new Amagansett location on Saturday at 171 Main Street with an exhibition of paintings by Fulvio Massi and sculpture by Marianne Weil. A reception will take place on March 19 from 5 to 7 p.m., and the show will remain on view through April 4.

While Sara DeLuca, the owner of Ille Arts, was fond of the gallery’s original location at the end of a driveway at 216a Main Street, she began to look around when she learned her landlord there was planning to sell the building.

A tip from Carlos Lama, who works at Innersleeve Records in Amagansett, led her to Joe and Sal LaCarrubba, who own the Main Street property where their eponymous store, known for work clothes, outdoor wear, shoes, jeans, and other clothing and accessories, was located from 1932, when it opened as a shoe repair shop, until 1997, when they sold the business.

Ms. DeLuca and the landlords shared the cost of renovating the expansive, white space, the floor-to-ceiling windows of which open onto Main Street. She said she will show the same range of contemporary work as at the previous location, but with an addition, a table 6 feet deep and 12 feet long in the rear of the gallery.

“On one side, facing the front, will be art books and ceramics,” she said. “In the back it will have flat files of works on paper that will be indexed and cataloged, with a computer or iPad so visitors can search the contents of the files.” The books and ceramics will be for sale as well as for browsing, and all the works on paper will be priced below $1,000.

“It will be almost like a separate store within the gallery, very simple, with some seating. When there’s just art on the walls, most people give a glance and walk out. If there’s something else to engage them, I think they will be encouraged to stay.”

Mr. Massi and Ms. Weil, like Ms. DeLuca, have strong ties to Italy. An architect as well as a painter, Mr. Massi is from Milan, where he lived and practiced architecture until moving here in 1999 with his wife, Naimy Hackett, an East Hampton native who lived and worked for many years in Milan. His gestural abstract paintings have strong roots in both jazz and architecture.

Ms. Weil, who lives in Orient, was born in New York City but spent more than 12 years in Pietrasanta, Italy, a town on the coast of northern Tuscany known for its foundries, marble studios, and classes taught by master artisans. Her work, which combines blown or poured glass with bronze, uses age-old techniques she learned in Italy.

“You do it for love,” Ms. DeLuca said of running a gallery. “I’ve gotten so much support here. When you love what you do, you can’t go wrong. It’s a great way of being a presence in the community.”