New Location for Tripoli
After 10 years in Southampton and two on the road, Tripoli Gallery has settled into a permanent location at 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott. The new site is a 2,400-square-foot warehouse with 18-foot ceilings, located off Montauk Highway next to the Wainscott Greens park.
Now on view at the gallery is a large group exhibition called “15th Annual Thanksgiving Collective: What Have We Done?” Future plans include the addition to the gallery of studios where artists in residence will be able to work on-site. Alice Hope, who is working on a commission for the United States Embassy in Mozambique, will be the first resident artist.
The gallery will be open Thursdays through Saturdays, and on Mondays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays from noon to 5, and by appointment.
Ben Fenske’s Circle
“Fenske and Friends,” which will open at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor on Saturday with a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m., brings together paintings by Ben Fenske and 11 classically trained painters who have worked with and in some cases been influenced by him. Mr. Fenske divides his time between Sag Harbor and Florence, Italy.
Participating artists are Marc Dalessio, Daniela Astone, Leo Mancini-Hresko, Victor Butko, Kelly Carmody, Tim McGuire, Amy Florence, Rachel Personnett, Irina Rybakova, Carl Bretzke, and Tina Orsolic Dalessio. Like Mr. Fenske, many of the painters studied at the Florence Academy of Art.
The exhibition will remain on view through March 29.
Wednesday Group in Springs
Members of the Wednesday Group of plein-air painters will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday and Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Workshops in glass fusing, watercolor, and collage will be offered to the public on Saturday between noon and 2.
The show will include work by Agnes Bristel, Teresa Lawler, Marie Lombardi, Jean Mahoney, Lynn Martell, Deb Palmer, Janet Rojas, Gene Samuelson, Rosa Hanna Scott, Frank Sofo, Bob Sullivan, Ursula Thomas, Pamela Thomson, Aurelio Torres, and Maureen Travers.
Joel Mesler at Harper’s N.Y.C.
“Show Schmo,” an exhibition of work by Joel Mesler, will open at Harper’s Apartment, the Manhattan outpost of East Hampton’s Harper’s Books, with a reception on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through April 4. Mr. Mesler is both an artist and the proprietor of the Rental Gallery in East Hampton.
When he moved into the Rental Gallery space on Newtown Lane, Mr. Mesler discovered books and stacks of posters left behind by the previous tenant, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. “Show Schmo” includes several large paintings, handmade books, and more than 40 of the found posters, which Mr. Mesler has transformed into witty paintings that toss cartoons, Pop Art, tropical motifs, and art world references into his creative blender.
Betty Parsons in Chelsea
Alexander Gray Associates in Chelsea will present “Heated Sky,” an exhibition of paintings and works on paper created by Betty Parsons from the 1960s to the mid-’70s, from today through April 4.
The works reflect the artist’s acute study of the natural world, “which was the ground for compositional methods ranging from loose biomorphism to geometric order,” according to a release. An influential art dealer whose eponymous gallery launched many important careers, Ms. Parsons painted from 1959 until her death in 1982 in a Southold studio designed by the artist-architect Tony Smith.
A reception will be held today from 6 to 8 p.m.
