The Church Opens Doors
The Church in Sag Harbor will begin offering public tours Thursdays through Mondays at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., starting today. Co-founded by the artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl, The Church was conceived to celebrate and nurture creativity on the East End through exhibitions, artist residencies, and performances, and to provide a place of contemplation for the community.
Two works by internationally recognized artists, Kerry James Marshall and Awol Erizku, have been installed in the vast exhibition space. “These two nuanced works are exquisite and powerful,” said Sara Cochran, the executive director. “I hope they are catalysts for discussion.”
Tours can be reserved via a link on The Church’s website.
Metoyer on Site
“Magnificent Change,” an exhibition of work by Angelbert Metoyer, is on view through May 3 at the Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott. Mr. Metoyer is using the gallery as his temporary studio, where he will transform past works, some from as early as 2008, “to create artworks that exhibit life force and vitality,” according to the gallery.
The artist explores memory, mythology, and metamorphosis through the lenses of history, philosophy, and theology, combining conventional materials with nontraditional ones such as coal, oil, tar, and gold dust which he calls “excrements of industry.” A reception will take place on April 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mizrahi at Ashawagh
“In Broad Daylight,” an exhibition of 30 new paintings by Haim Mizrahi, will take place at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow through Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m. His swirling abstract compositions, while reminiscent of Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, also derive from Mr. Mizrahi’s music and his poetry, selections from which will be read at the exhibition.
Two other writers, Emily Weitz and Joanne de Simone, will read from their work on Sunday afternoon at 2.
View From Gowanus
“View From Gowanus,” a show of 19 recent paintings by JJ Manford, is on view at Harper’s Books in East Hampton through May 16. While the title refers to the Brooklyn neighborhood where the artist has his studio, the lavish interiors represented in his paintings are wildly inventive.
Mr. Manford is inspired by the increasing accessibility of tourism and the global market, and its transformation of visual culture. In his paintings, an Agnes Martin rug, a Joan Miro painting, and a Piet Mondrian shower curtain share space with a lava lamp, a flamingo lawn ornament, and children’s toys.
Two at White Room
“Master Minds,” an exhibition of work by Joe Stefanelli and Sasson Soffer, both of whom lived in East Hampton, will open today at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton and remain on view through May 9. A reception will happen Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
By the early 1950s, Stefanelli was established as part of the New York School, having been introduced to the Artists’ Club by Franz Kline and chosen by his peers to take part in the influential “Ninth Street Show.” His abstract paintings were included in two Whitney Museum Annual exhibitions.
Soffer, too, made his way to New York in the early 1950s and studied at Brooklyn College with Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Burgoyne Diller. Originally a painter, he became known in the 1960s for his abstract sculpture, which has been shown at Lincoln Center, Battery Park, New York University, and Bard College.
Semmel in Chelsea
The first part of “A Balancing Act,” a two-venue exhibition of new work by Joan Semmel, will open today at Alexander Gray Associates in Chelsea and continue through May 29. The second part will open on April 23 at the gallery’s location in Germantown, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley, and remain on view through June 6.
The works in the show vary in scale and palette but reflect Ms. Semmel’s concerns with structure and form. “Semmel mines new expanses of psychology and vulnerability” in the recent paintings, according to the gallery, “bringing her half-century of technical prowess to bear in sophisticated figurative arrangements and rigorous color compositions.”
"Crisis" at Storm King
Rashid Johnson’s “The Crisis” (2019), a 16-foot-tall yellow pyramidal steel sculpture, has been installed in a native grass field at the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y., where it will remain until Nov. 8. The work’s title derives from Harold Cruse’s 1967 study, “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,” a volume from the civil rights movement.
The piece will be accompanied on occasion by performances of Mr. Johnson’s 2019 ballet, “The Hikers,” conceived with the choreographer Claudia Schreier and adapted for Storm King’s vast landscape. The ballet follows the paths of two solo African-American hikers whose encounter brings tension, relief, and wonder.
