Outdoor Sculpture Tours
While the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill has temporarily closed its galleries due to Covid-19, it will offer socially distanced onsite walking tours of “Field of Dreams,” an outdoor sculpture exhibition, tomorrow afternoon between 3 and 4:30. Alicia Longwell, the museum’s chief curator, and museum docents will lead the tours, and Scott Bluedorn will be on hand to discuss “Bonac Blind,” his Road Show project, which can be seen in the museum’s meadow.
“Field of Dreams” includes sculpture by Jaume Plensa, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Joel Perlman, Joel Shapiro, Max Ernst, Bernar Venet, Isa Genzken, and Giuseppe Penone. Guests will be separated into small groups for the tours. Tickets are $10, free for members and students, and advance purchase through the museum’s website is required.
Two at Halsey McKay
Two solo shows, Lauren Luloff’s “Sequences” and David-Jeremiah’s “Hamborghini Rally: Soul Hunt City,” are on view at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through March 20.
Ms. Luloff’s installation flows from floor to ceiling throughout the downstairs gallery. Each dye-on-silk panel functions as its own work as well as part of larger groupings of landscapes filled with vegetable-like shapes interrupted by plaid borders.
Presented by Kendra Jayne Patrick, an itinerant gallery in New York City, the work of David-Jeremiah is fueled by a real event: the killing by a former African-American soldier of five police officers, and his subsequent murder by a bomb-equipped robot. The installation explores multiple forms of revenge.
Feiffer and Dennis at Keyes Art
“Graphic Times,” an exhibition of new works by Jules Feiffer, will open at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor tomorrow and remain on view through Feb. 12. The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer, who lives on Shelter Island, has been considered the most widely read satirist in the country. The show is subtitled “Love! Heartbreak! Applause! Self Pity!”
“Having Never Left,” a show of 17 works from Jeremy Dennis’s “Rise” and “Nothing Happened Here” series, is also on view at Keyes Art. A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Mr. Dennis explores indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation in his staged, often supernatural, images. The exhibition will run through Feb. 13.
New at Mark Borghi
“Behind the Hood,” an exhibition of 24 figurative paintings by Clintel Steed, will open tomorrow at Mark Borghi Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through March 5.
Mr. Steed’s paintings are a response to the postponement of a major retrospective of work by Philip Guston on the grounds that the representation of the Ku Klux Klan in some of his paintings, while meant to criticize racism, might be misinterpreted.
The imagery in the “Behind the Hood” series captures American’s racist history from the 19th century to the present, including lynching, cotton farming, Klansmen, and contemporary gun violence, rendered with a saturated color palette and lush impasto.
Having grown up in Utah in the 1980s and ‘90s, Mr. Steed remembers the presence there of white supremacy, which most tragically included the fatal shooting of his brother by law enforcement.
Rockman and Grover Chat
In December, Andrea Grover, the executive director of Guild Hall, and Alexis Rockman, whose exhibition “Shipwrecks” will open at Guild Hall in June, met at Sperone Westwater Gallery in Manhattan to tour and discuss “Lost Cargo Watercolors,” his exhibition there. Originally streamed for several Guild Hall membership categories, the conversation is now available on YouTube.
“Shipwrecks,” which has been organized by Ms. Grover for the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., as well as Guild Hall, features Mr. Rockman’s depictions of shipwrecks and their lost cargoes, addressing the impact on the planet of the migration of goods, people, plants, and animals.
Adam Umbach in Sag
“Halcyon Daze,” an exhibition of new paintings by Adam Umbach, is on view by appointment through Feb. 28 at Roman Fine Art, which relocated from East Hampton to Sag Harbor last spring.
Mr. Umbach’s paintings explore a collective nostalgia for childhood memories and happier times by juxtaposing realistic representations of everyday objects, such as boats, rubber ducks, and beach umbrellas, with expressionistic hand-made lines and squiggles. Although his subjects are derived from his life, their universality encourages viewers to connect with them.
Freilicher in Chelsea
“Parts of a World,” an exhibition of 15 still lifes by Jane Freilicher, will open today at the Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea and continue through Feb. 27. Spanning the artist’s career from the 1950s to the early 2000s, the works reflect her attention to the intimate domestic subjects that characterize her scenes, among them flowers, drapery, and New York City backdrops.
At a time when so many are spending more time in their indoor spaces, “Freilicher’s commitment to, and belief in, the formal richness of these quotidian domiciliary views engenders a lesson in close looking,” according to the gallery.
Joel Mesler in Los Angeles
“Surrender,” an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Joel Mesler, the director of East Hampton’s Rental Gallery, will open Saturday at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and remain on view through March 6.
Mr. Mesler’s new works combine language and images, with phrases such as “Mom” and “Don’t Cry” rendered in letters made to resemble fire, milk, cocaine, or a Mercedes-Benz hood ornament. The backgrounds against which the phrases appear evoke key moments from the artist’s past, including childhood memories and traumas.
