Bryan Hunt at Duck Creek
“Lunarium,” an exhibition of paintings by Bryan Hunt, will open at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs on Saturday and remain on view through Aug. 2. The works are from a series that began as working diagrams for large-scale sculptures as yet unrealized.
Each 10-foot-high piece depicts a fictional planet anchored by black-and-white photographs that determine the scale of the sphere and define its arc. The collaged photographs resemble NASA’s mosaics of satellite telemetry, but the planets are actually photographs of small ceramic orbs hand-sculpted by Mr. Hunt.
“They’re about drawing and mapping, the kind of freedom you’d have if you wandered around recording a fictional topography,” according to the artist. “It’s a made-up journey. Then I go back and paint that topography.”
Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 2 to 6 p.m. Visitors will be limited to five at a time and are required to wear face coverings indoors.
Pollock-Krasner House Opens
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs is now offering guided tours on Thursdays and Sundays. Admission is by advance reservation, with numbers limited to a maximum of six. Physical distancing and face coverings are required. The restroom and the museum shop remain closed.
The exhibition on view this year is "Athos Zacharias: The Late Work."
The study center’s summer lecture series, which will be held on Sundays at 5 p.m. via Zoom, will be devoted to six of the sites in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program. The first lecture, by Bonnie Yochelson, a former curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, will be given this Sunday, and will focus on the Staten Island house of Alice Austen (1866-1952), a pioneering photographer.
Subsequent talks will examine the Melrose Plantation in Los Angeles and the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Conn.
New at Rental Gallery
“Friend of Ours,” a show of work by 16 artists, is on view by appointment only at the Rental Gallery in East Hampton through July 30. A common thread to the works in the exhibition, which has been organized by Benjamin Godsill and Joel Mesler, is “their subtle attempts to subvert our perceived realities,” according to a release.
Participating artists are Farah Al Qasimi, Sayre Gomez, Henry Gunderson, Hugh Hayden, Alex Israel, Matt Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Josh Kline, Fredrick Kunath, Robert Longo, Tony Matelli, Borna Sammak, Mungo Thomson, Austyn Weiner, Jonas Wood, and Anicka Yi.
Two at MM Fine Art
MM Fine Art in Southampton will present “Manhattan to Montauk,” paintings by Ben Aronson, and an exhibition of drawings by Susan Grossman from Saturday through July 26.
Mr. Aronson is especially known for his cityscapes and landscapes, which combine realism with gestural immediacy and expressive energy. The exhibition celebrates Long Island and its art history with both Manhattan cityscapes and more traditional East End scenes.
Using a minimal palette of black, white, and gray, Ms. Grossman’s drawings recall classic film noir. She finds her subjects and locations by taking photographs throughout the city, and then transforms them during the drawing process by repositioning buildings and vehicles and adding and removing people.
Garden Art Fair
“Gallery in the Garden,” a group show organized by Jackie Fuchs, will take place in the garden of Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor on Sunday afternoon from 3:30 to 6:30. The artists will include Mary Heilmann, Dianne Blell, Larry Carlson, Noelle Giddings, Dave Ortiz, and Ms. Fuchs, who lives in Sag Harbor. More information is available by calling 631-880-1711.
