Alice Hope at Tripoli
Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott has on view a solo show of work by the gallery’s first artist in residence, Alice Hope, from Saturday through April 12. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
The first week of the exhibition, called “Surge,” will showcase Ms. Hope’s large-scale installation commissioned by Art in Embassies before it is transported to its permanent site in the new United States Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. The show will also feature a selection of new sculptures related to the commission and works in progress related to her residency at the gallery.
For her embassy commission, Ms. Hope was influenced by the offshore seine fishermen of Mozambique, which she visited in 2018, choosing seine nets as her canvases onto which hundreds of thousands of used can tabs were individually knotted in a labor-intensive effort, according to a release.
Five at Markel
“Illustrious Strangers,” a group show of emerging East End artists organized by Scott Bluedorn, is on view at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton through March 22.
Participating artists include Jodi Bentivegna, whose portraits and other images have a dreamlike quality, Daniel
Cabrera, an abstract painter who works on thermal paper and found wood, Jackie Dandelion, whose illustrative art is whimsical and autobiographical, Alexander Perez, who depicts a surreal world in his drawings, objects, and dioramas, and Mr. Bluedorn, a multimedia artist and illustrator.
Kanovitz in Riverhead
“Representation Reconstructed,” an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Howard Kanovitz, will open on Monday at the Lyceum Gallery on Suffolk Community College’s Riverhead campus and continue through April 18.
Kanovitz, who divided his time between Amagansett and the south of France until his death in 2009, abandoned abstraction for figuration in the mid-1960s and emerged as a leader of Photorealism after his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Chuck Close said of Kanovitz, “He made working from photographs seem like a good idea.”
“Rain,” his monumental painting from 2008, will be shown for the first time in the exhibition, which will also include studies for his mixed-media environmental sculpture “Death in Treme.”
Carolyn Oldenbusch, the director of the Howard Kanovitz Foundation, will speak at a reception on April 8 from 4 to 6 p.m.
