John Little at Mark Borghi
“John Little” A Survey of Important Works,” a show of 21 paintings made by the artist after he moved to East Hampton in the late 1940s, is on view at Mark Borghi Gallery in Sag Harbor through July 22.
Little’s gestural paintings are filled with bold colors that reflect the influence of his teacher, Hans Hofmann, as well as the ascendance of Abstract Expressionism. After moving here, he learned from Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner of a 300-year-old house for sale in Springs. He renovated it, moved an old barn to the property to use as a studio, and lived and worked permanently there from 1951 until his death in 1984.
The property is now the Arts Center at Duck Creek.
Two at Berggruen
An exhibition of recent work by Julian Lethbridge and Carl Andre will open Friday at Berggruen Gallery in East Hampton and continue through Aug. 8. Both artists draw from mathematics and geometry to create abstract, minimalist compositions.
Mr. Lethbridge's canvases begin with a grid, which serves as a guide for the application of layer upon layer of oil paint that is incised with metal bands. The result is paintings with "surprising optical depths and a unique rhythmic sensation," according to the gallery.
One of the ground-breaking Minimalists, Mr. Andre creates elementary arrangements of factory-cut wood, Styrofoam, aluminum, and steel that are at most six inches tall and deployed on the floor.
Iconic Women on Canvas
"Icons and Imagery," an exhibition of paintings by Eliza Geddes, will open Thursday at J. Mackey Gallery in East Hampton and will remain on view through July 28. A reception will be held Saturday at 7 p.m.
Ms. Geddes's portraits of iconic women are built up by layering and removing paint and adding texture to the canvas with brushstrokes using such unconventional materials as house paint, a putty knife, and vintage newsprint. The artist uses similar techniques for non-figurative mixed-media works that feature vintage advertisements.
Milton Avery at Phillips
Phillips Southampton is presenting "Milton Avery: A Sense of Place" through July 31. The exhibition features approximately 50 works from the Milton Avery Trust that span three decades of Avery's career and focus on the different locations that served as his inspiration.
The show ranges from early New York City portraits and interiors from the 1930s to the landscapes of Provincetown, Mass., where he worked alongside Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb. Other paintings that reflect his ability to capture place and atmosphere depict locations in Upstate New York, the Gaspe Peninsula in Canada, Cape Cod, and Vermont.
Homage to Nature
"Elemental," an exhibition of work by 20 artists, will be open Thursday at Grain Surfboards in Amagansett and continue through July 27. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Participating artists, whose work reflects a reverence for the natural world on the East End, are Scott Bluedorn, Candace Ceslow, Jen Charron, Eric Dixon, Idoline Duke, Giancarlo Feleppa, Aileen Florell, Kara Hoblin, Erica Lynn Huberty, James Katsipis, LoVid, Joanlee Montefusco, Jane Parkes, Cindy Pease Roe, Dalton Portella, Sally Richardson, Brian Schopfer. Richard Silver, Peter Spacek, and Aaron Warkov.
East Hampton Shed Returns
East Hampton Shed, the modest backyard exhibition space at 30 Blue Jay Way in East Hampton run by Hadley Vogel and Abby Lloyd, is celebrating its 10th season with "Chris & Nick," a two-artist show that will run from Saturday through July 18.
Chris Retsina's paintings depict chaotic scenes of good and evil, including brutal figures battling hapless people and animals. Nick Payne uses soft materials such as charcoal, pastels, and watercolors to create surreal narratives.
Together, the artists "create an outlandish theme that is delightfully bizarre," according to Ms. Vogel and Ms. Lloyd.
Pop-Up From Mexico City
Hard as it is to believe that there’s room for another gallery in East Hampton Village, Kurimanzutto, a gallery in Mexico City, has traveled almost 2,200 miles to launch a pop-up on Main Street.
The first of two shows devoted to the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is on view at Kurimanzutto Out East through Sunday. The works continue the artist’s ongoing analysis of the circle within nature. By layering and eroding transparent and opaque materials, Mr. Orozco plays with assemblage, texture, line, and depth to create tactile works that have a sculptural quality.
Part two will open next Thursday and continue through July 25.
"Urban Cubism" in Bridge
"There Are No Words," an exhibition of paintings by Christopher Florentino a.k.a. Flore, is on view at Chase Edwards Gallery in Bridgehampton through July 17.
While growing up in Brooklyn, Flore was influenced by the work of such artists as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein, and his paintings channel the energies of New York, according to the gallery. His brightly colored canvases feature dense compositions of written words and cartoon-like faces that overlap each other so they are partially concealed.
Paintings and Photographs
"In Perspective," a show of paintings by Brian O'Leary, and an exhibition of photographs by both Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, will open at MM Fine Art in Southampton Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through July 25.
Mr. O'Leary, who rotates his canvases throughout the painting process to avoid any hint of landscape or gravity, paints geometric abstractions that incorporate non-traditional materials such as tar and string to add depth, texture, and dimensionality.
Mr. Makos and Mr. Solberg will be represented by collaborative works from their "Andy Dandy" series, which draws upon the association between Warhol and flowers, as well as Mr. Makos's images of Warhol from 1981 and Mr. Solberg's flower portraits.
New at Colm Rowan
An exhibition of paintings on linen by Pavlina Alea is on view at Colm Rowan Fine Art in East Hampton through July 18. The artist has written of her fascination with the optic distortions caused by water, and the human figure in the context of nature.
The paintings in the exhibition depict men and women, many of them partially or completely submerged in water. Classically trained, her meticulous draftsmanship is offset by the glittering, fractal-like surface of the water and a bold palette of phthalo blues, greens, and deep magentas, giving the paintings what the gallery calls an "unexpected visual punch."
Darren Vigil Gray at Keyes
An exhibition of paintings by Darren Vigil Gray, an artist, musician, and member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, will open at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through Aug. 6.
Even though he had never even drawn a picture, at 15 he convinced his mother to let him leave the Jicarilla Apache reservation to study at Santa Fe's Institute of American Tribal Arts.
Advised by a mentor to create his own mythology, Mr. Gray has done just that, creating dynamic paintings that explore tribal and personal mythologies, portraiture, the landscape of northern New Mexico, and abstraction. The critic Lucy Lippard has said that his paintings "transcend the personal and the local."
"Dropcloths" at the White Room
The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present an exhibition of work by Linda Colletta from Tuesday through July 18, with a reception set for Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Originally a scenic artist for television, Ms. Colletta has worked in a variety of mediums over the years. Her abstract paintings take various forms hinted at by the titles of her series -- "Mashups," "Paint Skins," and "Brushworks" among them. The show features work from her "Dropcloths" series, which consists of acrylic, oil, graphite, and spray paint on canvas.
