“Collectors Sale”
Like every cultural organization, the Southampton Arts Center has had to rethink its annual summer fund-raiser because of to Covid-19. “The Collectors Sale,” a show of artworks donated by more than 70 artists, will be on view in the center’s theater from Friday through Sept. 13, and will continue in its online gallery through Dec. 31. The show also includes works donated by private collectors and gallerists.
A First Look cocktail reception, for $250 per person, will take place Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. in hourlong shifts. Tickets, limited to 50 per hour, can be bought on the center’s website.
Solos at Nightingale
Solo exhibitions of paintings by Melora Griffis and Judith Simonian are on view at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor through Sept. 10. Ms. Griffis is showing 19 works created during the quarantine, many of them pieced together with textiles, hair, leather, and fabric repurposed with paint on cotton fabric. One is a life-size self-portrait of the artist holding a cellphone, her portal into the outside world.
Titled “Caught in the Act of Swimming,” Ms. Simonian’s exhibition includes paintings inspired by fish and water, which, she has said, “provide gestural opportunities to dance on the two-dimensional surface of a painting.”
New Southampton Gallery
Sélavy, an art and design gallery from the founders of New York City’s Di Donna Galleries, has opened on Job's Lane in Southampton. Rotating exhibitions of artworks, furniture, and design items from different time periods and cultures will be presented in “curated vignettes” visible from large corner windows, according to a release.
Among the artists and designers in the opening presentation are Jean Arp, Robert Motherwell, Yves Klein, George Nakashima, Max Ernst, Kenneth Noland, Charlotte Perriand, Wassily Kandinsky, Charles and Ray Eames, and Claude Lalanne.
Justin Love at Colm Rowan
A solo exhibition of paintings by Justin Love, an artist, musician, and fashion designer, will open Thursday at Colm Rowan Fine Art in East Hampton and remain on view through Sept. 7.
Mr. Love’s paintings reflect the influence of Pop as well as the cultures of countries where he has traveled and lived, among them Costa Rica, Jamaica, Vietnam, and Thailand, in addition to Woodstock, where he converted an old church into a home and studio.
Group Show at Grain Surfboard
“Après Surf,” an exhibition of art and design using the post-consumer materials of surfing, will open Friday at Grain Surfboard/Stick + Stone in Amagansett, with an outdoor reception from 6 to 9 p.m.
The artists in the show have repurposed in their works the often toxic and long-lasting chemicals and polymers used in surfboards, wetsuits, and other accessories. Those participating are Peter Spacek, Dalton Portella, Scott Bluedorn, Annie Sessler, and Scott Szegeski. Organized by Mr. Bluedorn, it will run through Sept. 13.
Virtual Art Fair
The Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, which will take place online from Wednesday through Sept. 7, will honor three notable artists, including Elliott Erwitt and Audrey Flack, who divide their time between New York City and East Hampton.
Mr. Erwitt has been capturing reality for seven decades as a freelance photographer and has worked with Magnum Photos since 1953. Ms. Flack, a pioneer of Photorealism whose work encompasses multiple mediums and genres, will receive the fair’s lifetime achievement award for painting.
Richard Mayhew, who was born in Amityville but now lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., has been named the fair’s artist of the year for his abstract landscapes. Work by all three artists will be represented at the fair, which will offer two-dimensional and three-dimensional virtual reality access to 85 gallery booths.
Ed Smith at BCK Fine Arts
“Reflections,” an exhibition of recent sculpture, monotypes, and drawings by Ed Smith, is on view at BCK Fine Arts in Montauk through Sept. 10. Mr. Smith, who is a professor of art and gallery director at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, focuses in his work on “mythic and heroic aspects of the artist and man,” according to his website.
Among the forms his work takes are terra cotta and bronze torsos, terra-cotta helmets, and sculptures and reliefs that represent conflicts among mythological figures.
