Watermill Benefit
On the heels of its October reopening, the Watermill Center has announced its autumn benefit auction, which will go live on artsy.net from 2 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday and continue through Dec. 9. The auction will benefit the center and its artists, who can earn a 20 percent commission from the sale of their work.
Among the center alumni from the East End who have donated works are Candace Hill Montgomery, Bastienne Schmidt, Claire Watson, Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, Dinesh Boaz, Michael Dweck, Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Stephen Laub, and Hope Sandrow.
New at Drawing Room
"Dorothy Ruddick: A Decade in Fiber, 1973-1983" will open at the Drawing Room in East Hampton on Saturday and remain on view through Dec. 20. The 13 works in the exhibition include embroidered compositions that reflect Ruddick's first experiments with new materials, stitched and woven canvases made a few years later in high relief, and a series of monochromatic works that combine ink and gesso with natural fibers.
In the 1960s, Ruddick and her husband bought a summer home in Amagansett, where they spent extended periods of time. Her work has been widely exhibited and is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, and many others.
DeMartis Sr. and Jr.
A retrospective exhibition of the art of James DeMartis Sr., an Expressionist painter, will take place at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Friday from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 5. In addition to approximately 30 mixed-media and oil paintings and several dozen works on paper by Mr. DeMartis, the show will also include six sculptures by James DeMartis Jr. of East Hampton.
'60s at Firestone
“The 1960s,” a survey of American art from that decade, is on view at the Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton through Nov. 29. The show includes work by Stephen Antonakos, Norman Bluhm, Willem de Kooning, Perle Fine, Sidney Geist, Mimi Gross, Miriam Schapiro, and a dozen others.
“Futura 2020,” a show of recent paintings by Futura2000, a celebrated graffiti artist, is on view by appointment through Dec. 23 at the gallery’s new ground floor space at 40 Great Jones Street in Lower Manhattan.
Elkins's Recent Work
An exhibition of recent paintings by Terry Elkins will open at MM Fine Art in Southampton with a reception on Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. It will remain on view through Nov. 29.
Mr. Elkins studied in Texas, where his work was abstract, but after he moved to the East End 30 years ago, inspired by the light-filled landscape and the ocean and bays, he began to paint en plein air. His paintings, pastels, watercolors, and drawings range from landscapes and seascapes to maritime and nautical images to historical architectural landmarks, among then lighthouses.
Documenting Crises
The Southampton Arts Center will hold a free Zoom panel discussion today at 6 p.m. on documenting crises in real time. The participants are Clifford Owens, Steve Mumford, Paine the Poet, and Pamela Sztybel, all of whom have work in "2020 Vision," the center's current exhibition. Access is through the center's website.
