Exploring Nature
An exhibition of landscape paintings by Benjamin King is on view at the Mark Borghi Gallery in Sag Harbor through June 30. Mr. King, who lives and works in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., spends time outdoors in every kind of weather looking for pockets of nature where animals might live, but people are absent.
Mr. King is interested in nature without a human presence both to encourage a broader understanding of the natural world and, in the face of climate change, to imagine a world without people.
“All the Gods”
“Panthea,” an exhibition of works on paper by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, is on view at the Goodman Gallery in East Hampton through Sunday. Ms. Sunstrum’s drawings are a cornerstone of her multidisciplinary practice, which also includes painting, installations, and animation.
In the drawings on view, the artist superimposes multiple versions of the human figure with geometric forms, experimenting with scale and movement. “Panthea,” which means “all the gods” in Greek, describes the artist’s desire to explore and validate all forms of knowledge.
Pursuing Paint
“In Pursuit of Painting,” an exhibition of work by Chuck Manion, Nick Mead, Lola Montes, and Felicidad Moreno, opens today at the Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott and will continue through July 18. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Tripoli Patterson, the gallery’s proprietor, was inspired in part by an exhibition of painters from around the world, organized by Julian Schnabel several years ago. “I am pleased to continue this exploration of painting, one that is personal, inventive, surprising, and original,” said Mr. Patterson. Mr. Manion lives in Montauk, Mr. Mead in New Haven, Ms. Montes in Sicily, and Ms. Moreno in Spain.
Early Modernism
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, a Manhattan gallery specializing in early modern American art, is opening an East Hampton satellite tomorrow at 37 Newtown Lane.
Works on view include paintings by George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Childe Hassam, and Agnes Pelton; sculpture by Elie Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, and Jacques Lipschitz, and decorative arts by Frank Lloyd Wright, Tiffany, and Edgar Brandt. The gallery plans to remain open year-round.
Painters and Performance
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will present “Pollock, Paint, and Performance Art,” a virtual event exploring the work of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Robert Wilson, on Tuesday at 4 p.m. via Zoom.
Joyce Raimondo, the center’s education coordinator, will lead a tour of the artists’ home and studio, after which Andrea Cote, the education and programs manager at the Watermill Center, which was founded by Mr. Wilson, will discuss Pollock’s and Krasner’s action painting and its influence on performance artists. Registration on the Springs center’s website is required for the free program.
Greene Naftali East
Greene Naftali, a Chelsea gallery, has opened for the summer in East Hampton at 158 North Main Street. Among the 26 artists with work on view are Lutz Bacher, Monika Baer, Tony Cokes, Wade Guyton, Rachel Harrison, Mary Heilmann, Jacqueline Humphries, Walter Price, and Katharina Wulff.
The gallery is open Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 6 p.m., but timed appointments, which can be made on its website, have been encouraged. The current show will run through July 25.
Have Tile, Will Paint
Scott Bluedorn, one of Guild Hall’s community artists-in-residence, will lead “The Tile Club,” a series of free open studio painting workshops, in the Minikes Garden starting Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
The workshop is focused on the history, practice, and revitalization of the Tile Club, a group of 19th-century artists who met together to paint on decorative tiles, often en plein air, in East End locations. Guild Hall will provide the tiles, but participants have been asked to bring their own acrylic paints, brushes, water jars, and palettes.
Subsequent workshops will take place on July 17 and Aug. 21.
Drawing from Old Masters
“False Azure,” a solo show of new paintings by Quentin James McCaffrey, will be on view at Hesse Flatow East in Amagansett from Saturday through July 10, with a reception set for Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.
Mr. McCaffrey, who draws from quattrocento Italian painting and 17th-century Dutch interiors, uses single-point perspective, layers of oil paint on panel or canvas, and a focus on light to render domestic interior spaces that suggest a narrative taking place outside their borders. Except for the reception, the gallery is open on Saturdays only by appointment.
Creativity's Ecology
In conjunction with its current exhibition, “Earth: Artists as Activists,” the Southampton Arts Center will present a free panel discussion about the connection between human creativity and the preservation of nature and human communities next Thursday at 6 p.m. Panelists will include Carl Safina, a conservationist, Patricia Paladines, a photographer, Paul Greenberg, a writer, Erica Cirino, an artist, and Kate Thompson, a scientific illustrator.
“Whimsey in the Garden,” a cocktail party to benefit the arts center, will take place on its grounds on Friday, June 25, from 6:30 to 8:30. The event takes its name from “Whimsey,” an exhibition of outdoor sculpture organized for the center by Eric Fischl. Tickets start at $250; $150 for those 30 and under.
Surprise in Southampton
MM Fine Art in Southampton will open two shows on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. “Women Artists of the Hamptons: 1945 to the Present Day” will include works by Mary Abbott, Irina Alimanestianu, Elaine de Kooning, Perle Fine, Cornelia Foss, Melinda Hackett, Lee Krasner, Cindy Sherman, Hedda Sterne, and others.
The second show, “Henry Koehler: Collages of the 1970s,” features a series of works originally exhibited at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton in 1979 and only rediscovered in the artist's attic after his death in 2019. Though perhaps best known for his paintings of sporting events, Henry Koehler was not limited to that genre.
Both exhibitions will continue through July 5.
Ezra Gallery Reopens
“The Nature Show,” an exhibition organized by Kimberly Goff, will open at the Ezra Gallery at the Center for Jewish Life in Sag Harbor on Sunday with a reception from 4 to 6:30 p.m. It will remain on view through July 13.
The show features works by Linda K. Alpern, Casey Chalem Anderson, Dana Little Brown, Mary Delaney, Edward Joseph, Jessie Pollock, Blair Seagram, Pamela Topham, Steven Zaluski, Ms. Goff, and, from the Elaine Benson Gallery collection, Jane Freilicher, Flo Kemp, and Sybil Wilson.
Smyth in Mattituck
The Landcraft Garden Foundation in Mattituck will launch its new annual series, Sculpture in the Garden, on Saturday with “Life,” an exhibition of monumental sculptures by Ned Smyth. The show, organized by Ugo Rondinone, a member of the foundation’s art advisory board, focuses on a juncture in Mr. Smyth’s work forged in the 1970s, when the palm emerged as a signature motif.
The installation includes “Solomon Palm Arcade” from 1977, “Spiky Palms” (1977-2021), and a single “Solomon Palm” from 1983. The works are sited in dialogue with specific landscapes and the surrounding natural flora of the gardens.
A Is for Art
Walter Sternlieb, a designer, builder, woodworker, and artist, has opened A Is For Art, a gallery on Job’s Lane in Southampton dedicated to his three-dimensional paintings. Mr. Sternlieb woke up one morning with the idea of a three-dimensional flag, which he built, painted, and hung on a wall. Other brightly colored constructions, among them a panel decorated with five hearts and a wall-mounted staircase, followed.
Plein Air in Water Mill
“A Breath of Plein Air,” a show of works by more than 20 members of the Wednesday Group of plein air painters, opens today at the Water Mill Museum and will remain on view through July 3. A reception will take place Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.
