Jockeys and Caddies
“Henry Taylor. Disappeared, but a tiger showed up, later,” a solo show of recent paintings and sculpture by the Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor, will open Thursday at Hauser & Wirth in Southampton and continue through Aug. 1.
The exhibition includes a group of rarely seen portraits, known as the "Jockeys and Caddies," which Mr. Taylor began in 2018 based on archival photographs of country clubs and horse races dating back to the 1920s. In the 1875 Kentucky Derby, 13 of 15 jockeys were Black, and the success of Black riders continued until a backlash in the South took place in the 1920s. Until 1982, caddies at the all-white Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters, were Black. Mr. Taylor has said, “Jockeys disappeared. The caddies disappeared. That was enough reason for me to paint them.”
The exhibition includes new sculptural assemblages made from domestic objects collected from swap meets and flea markets.
"Pleasant and Unpleasant"
“Paul Cadmus: Pleasant and Unpleasant,” an exhibition of more than 60 works created over six decades, is opening at the Michael Werner Gallery in East Hampton Thursday and will remain on view through July.
Cadmus (1904-1999) combined the meticulous technique of egg tempera painting with the representation of controversial, gritty urban scenes. Producing two or three paintings a year, he chose such subjects as drunken sailors, prostitutes, and locker rooms.
He was also a master draftsman. The majority of his drawings depict the male nude and connect the artist, according to the gallery, with such Old Masters as “Signorelli, Mantegna, and Michelangelo, who portrayed the beauty of the muscular male body.”
Gottlieb and Nozkowski
“Adolph Gottlieb: Pictographs” and “Thomas Nozkowski” open Thursday at the Pace Gallery in East Hampton. Gottlieb’s pictographs, created during the 1940s and ‘50s, are paintings characterized by gridlike arrangements of cultural images and ideas drawn from a variety of sources, including his own collection of tribal objects. The artist and his wife, Esther, bought a house in East Hampton in 1960.
The Nozkowski exhibition includes a selection of richly colored never-before-seen paintings on paper. In the early 1970s, disenchanted with the large scale of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, he began to work small and on the easel, developing a vocabulary that fused the biomorphic and the geometric, according to The New York Times.
The show will remain on view through July 18.
Tuten at Harper’s
Harper’s East Hampton is presenting an exhibition of works on cardboard by Frederic Tuten, a novelist and essayist who abandoned his early desire to pursue a career as a painter, only to return to making art at the age of 60.
Mr. Tuten’s whimsical works pair disparate images, such as teacups, vases, jugs, and potted plants on tabletops, while sombreros, clocks, boats, and faces drift across the picture plane. All the works are executed on unprimed cardboard with ink, colored pencil, crayon, pastel, and oil paint.
“Refining and rediscovering our childhood is precisely what drives Frederic’s approach to making art,” said Chris Mansour, the gallery’s director. The exhibition will run through July 21.
Basquiat in East Hampton
“Basquiat,” an exhibition of paintings by the self-taught graffiti artist who shot to fame in 1980 at the age of 19, is on view at the Van de Weghe Gallery in East Hampton through Aug. 25.
Three of the works, which focus on the figure, are painted on canvases mounted on hand-tied wooden supports. In “Crisis X” from 1982, the bars are arranged in a cross and protrude beyond the edge of the canvas. In “Santo #1” from the same year, the artist highlights the figure’s veins, arteries, windpipe, and organs in red and blue.
Other works in the show reflect the artist’s use of color, among them “Pink Elephant with Fire Engine,” which features a childlike truck and elephant all but engulfed by a yellow blaze.
Minimalist Icons
Sotheby’s East Hampton is presenting “Minimalism: Flavin, Judd, LeWitt,” an homage to three of the most influential artists of the movement, through July 11.
Donald Judd, who played an important role in defining the style in both his writings and his work, challenged longstanding ideas of subjectivity and illusionism. Precise, hard-edged forms and nonhierarchical compositions characterized his sculptures, many of which moved from the floor to the wall.
Minimalism and Conceptualism merged in the work of Sol LeWitt, who believed the idea could be the work of art, and who developed systems of execution for his sculptures and wall drawings that could be executed by others.
Dan Flavin, a close friend of Judd, is best known for his sculptural objects and installations made with commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. A permanent installation of nine of his works is on view at Dia Bridgehampton.
Hambleton's “Shadowmen”
“Shadowmen,” an exhibition of medium and large-scale paintings by Richard Hambleton, opens Thursday at Chase Contemporary in East Hampton and will continue through July 18.
Hambleton, who died in 2017, first became known for his “Mass Murder” series, which he painted on the streets of over 15 cities in the United States and Canada. He moved to the Lower East Side in 1979 and soon gained notoriety for his larger-than-life black “shadowmen,” whose ominous silhouettes subsequently appeared in over 600 locations in New York, London, Paris, and Berlin.
His work was included in the Venice Biennale in 1984 and 1988, and “Shadowman,” a film about him by Oren Jacoby, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017.
Kohlmann at Hanley
The Jack Hanley Gallery in East Hampton will present a solo show of paintings and monotypes by Emma Kohlmann from Friday through July 25. In her paintings, human-like plants, leaves, butterflies, and human figures are rendered without naturalistic proportions or traditional compositions.
A review in Arte Fuse of her 2018 show at Jack Hanley said, “The mythological symbolism and sexual impulses animating the world summoned by Kohlmann are by turns familiar and uncomfortable. The art itself is uncompromising and powerful.”
Summer's Spirit
“Spirit of Summer,” an exhibition of artwork by members of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from Friday through Tuesday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 10 to 4 on Tuesday.
Art Barge Tours
The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art has created a docent program for tours of both the Mabel and Victor D’Amico Studio and Archive on Lazy Point and the Art Barge on Napeague.
Visitors to the studio and archive will be guided through the D’Amicos’ former home, learn about the couple’s history as art educators, and have access to their vast collection of objects, furnishings, ephemera, and artworks. The hour-long tours require reservations and will be given on Thursdays at 2 p.m., Saturdays at 11 and 2, and Sundays at 11.
Beginning next Thursday, combined tours of the studio and the Art Barge will happen every Thursday at 2. Reservations, which can be made at damico-art.org/house, are $10, $15 for the combined tour.
New at Jeff Lincoln
Jeff Lincoln Art + Design in Southampton has two new exhibitions on view through Sept. 5. “The Radical Mark: Jack Tworkov and the Advent of Abstract Expressionism, 1952-1963” illuminates the artist’s most prolific period in a long career. The show emphasizes Tworkov’s signature use of the radical or gestural “mark” in painting, which placed him in the forefront of the New York School.
“Andy and Friends -- In the Hamptons” brings together original silver gelatin prints, Polaroids, and photo booth strips of Warhol’s friends, other artists, and lovers, captured during his days in Montauk and elsewhere on the South Fork.
Five at Kramoris
A show of work by Michael Albert, Casey Chalem Anderson, Christine Cadarette, Richard F. Denning, and Isabel Pavao will open Thursday at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and continue through July 22. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Albert is known for his mosaic cereal box collages, while Ms. Cadarette creates paper sculpture and vintage books with origami page bas-relief. While both Ms. Anderson and Ms. Pavao are inspired by nature, their work takes different directions, with Ms. Pavao’s tending more toward abstraction. Mr. Denning’s primary interest is in the human figure.
New at AB NY
“Exotic Birth,” a solo show of paintings by Valley Bak, is on view at AB NY Gallery in East Hampton through July 6. A Springs resident, the artist is also a nurse who was on the front lines during the pandemic, and a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner.
The works in the show, which include flowers and seascapes, reflect Ms. Bak’s encounters in medicine, meditation, and the “cosmic energy of life itself,” according to the artist.
