Watercolor's Immediacy
“Nicholas Howey: The Color of Science,” an exhibition of 16 works on paper highlighting the artist’s recent explorations of the immediacy of watercolor, will open at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack on Saturday and continue through June 26.
Unlike Mr. Howey’s acrylic paintings, which populate backgrounds of pure color with floating shapes of paint applied with his hands, the watercolors feature small, hard-edged geometric forms surrounded by a vacant expanse of white paper. The natural buckling of the paper accentuates its objecthood, and Mr. Howey’s idiosyncratic pictorial language suggests hieroglyphics and the mysticism of Tantric art.
Madoo is open by appointment only, Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments can be made on the website.
Talking Dirty
Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne will discuss their work in the "Down and Dirty" show at the Arts Center at Duck Creek with Terrie Sultan, the former director of the Parrish Art Museum who wrote an essay for the show, on Saturday at 3 p.m. Raindate is Sunday.at 3 p.m.
The exhibition includes work from as a far back as 1991 "to tell a tale of disruption and playful decrepitude" based in the years-long fallout from the 1987 stock market crash. Objects are presented with an unexpected but humorous mix of materials and metaphors.
Still Searching in Springs
“Still Searching . . . ,” a show of work by members of the East End Photographers Group, will be on view Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Organized by Marilyn Stevenson, the exhibition will include traditional, digital, and alternative photographic processes. Participating artists are Ron Buchter, Merry Frons, Gerry Giliberti, Jeff Gillis, Kathryn Odell-Hamilton, Jennifer Heffner, Virginia Khuri, Richard Law, Joel Lefkowitz, Keith Manning, Harold Naideau, Michael Ruggiero, Joan Santos, Dainis Saulitis, Rosa Hanna Scott, Pat Shevlin, Nick Tarr, Mark Testa, and Ms. Stevenson.
Virtually Leiber
“Gerson Leiber: Accomplished Abstract Artist Retrospective,” the second in a two-part virtual lecture series, will take place on Monday at 11 a.m. Hosted by Ann Fristoe Stewart, the director of the Leiber Collection in Springs, and Debbie Wells of Artful Circle, the program will feature virtual visits to the next exhibition at the Leiber Collection and a retrospective of the artist’s work at Leonard Tourne Gallery in Manhattan. The cost is $80, with registration via Eventbrite.com.
Perez Shows and Tells
Enoc Perez, whose exhibition “Paradise” is on view at Guild Hall through May 31, will discuss his work with Christina Mossaides Strassfield, the museum’s director and chief curator, on Saturday at 3 p.m. The conversation will be available to a limited in-person audience as well as virtually via Zoom. Registration for both options is on Guild Hall’s website.
An exhibition of Mr. Perez’s work will open at the Skarstedt Gallery in East Hampton next Thursday.
Schnabel's Flowers
“Flower Paintings,” which will open Saturday at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in Chelsea and run through July 10, will pair works by Julian Schnabel and Jorge Galindo, who last exhibited together in Madrid in 2011.
Mr. Schnabel will show “Victory,” a series of paintings begun in November on the day Donald Trump lost the presidential election. The works, which radiate optimism, were inspired in part by the beach roses growing wild in the driveway of the artist’s home in Montauk. Created with oil and plates on wood panels, the paintings fuse the physical and the pictorial.
Mr. Galindo’s paintings, from 2020 and 2021, animate the traditional still life motif with visceral marks. The dialogue between the two artists ultimately confronts questions of contemporary picture-making, according to the gallery.
Antonakos on Paper
“Stephen Antonakos: Project Drawings, 1967-1973,” is on view at Bookstein Projects in Manhattan through June 25. During the mid-1960s, Antonakos, who had a vacation house in Bridgehampton, had many ideas for neon works but was able to realize only a few in full-scale.
While he made dozens of scale models, it was only by drawing rapidly in graphite and colored pencil that he could capture the full sequence of individual compositions that were reflected in his neon work from 1965 to 1973. The exhibition includes approximately 50 drawings and one model for a red and yellow neon wall, from 1967.
Southampton Art Show
The Southampton Artists Association’s annual Memorial Day art show will open Wednesday at the Southampton Cultural Center and remain on view through June 20. A reception will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on May 29.
