Springs Art and History
The second annual "Art and Archives" exhibition, a benefit for the Springs Historical Society and Community Library, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in that hamlet from Friday through Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.
Organized by Teri Kennedy, the show includes work by more than 50 local artists, among them two pairs of parent-child artists. When she was visiting the studio of Robin Gianis, a ceramicist and teacher, Ms. Kennedy noticed a series of abstract paintings by Robin's 27-year-old daughter, Phoebe. "I jumped on the chance to recruit her for the show," she said. Work by Natalie Edgar-Pavia and her son, Paul Pavia, will also be on view.
In addition to contemporary art, the exhibition will include original 1970s posters by Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Perle Fine, John Little, Ibram Lassaw, and Arnold Hoffman Jr., as well as archival imagery and artifacts from Springs organized by Ethel Henn, a historical society board member.
A curator's tour and wine reception will happen on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Roll Tide Roll
The fourth iteration of Guild Hall's offsite event "Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s)," which was postponed due to inclement weather, will take place at Main Beach in East Hampton on Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m.
For the project, which was conceived by the artist Warren Neidich, 65 artists from Los Angeles wrote sets of instructions, in the form of love letters, to an equal number of East End artists, whose mission was to respond with improvisational performances in front of the Main Beach pavilion.
Among the artists who will take part in Sunday's happening are Monica Banks, Andrea Cote, Jeremy Dennis, Saskia Friedrich, Virva Hinnemo, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Josephine Meckseper. Those attending the free event can watch or become active participants.
Printmaking Workshop
The Church in Sag Harbor has announced two more sessions of its series of recurring workshops in monotype printmaking. Monotypes are one-of-a-kind impressions made when ink or paint has been manipulated on a plate and then run through a press with paper, resulting in a unique image.
Set for Nov. 15 from 2 to 6 p.m. and Dec. 13 from 2 to 6, the workshops will be led by Samuel Havens and Susan Bachemin, local printmakers. The price for each workshop is $200; if past workshops are any guide, they will sell out quickly.
Bartley in Chelsea
"Morandi's Books," an exhibition of photographs by Mary Ellen Bartley, opens Thursday at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in Chelsea, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
The work emerged from the artist's 2020 residency at Casa Morandi in Bologna, Italy, where she had access to the personal library of the artist Giorgio Morandi. His quiet still-life paintings have been a source of inspiration for her.
Known for her photographic explorations of the printed book, Ms. Bartley is concerned with geometry and pure form. While painterly in style, her images also invite curiosity about the history of the books themselves, says the gallery.
The exhibition will continue through Dec. 23.
Two at Firestone
Eric Firestone Gallery of East Hampton will open exhibitions at its two Great Jones Street spaces in Manhattan on Friday, with receptions from 6 to 8 p.m.
"Nyack" is a show of paintings by Peter Williams (1952-2021), who was born and raised in Nyack, N.Y. Williams, who in a 2020 interview with Forbes magazine called himself a "figurative narrative painter," addresses in his work issues such as mass incarceration, slavery, wealth inequality, and, most recently, police killings of unarmed Black men and children.
"Original Night" is an exhibition of paintings and assemblages by Abigail DeVille that is concurrent with a major survey of her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The tactile works begin with found pieces of plywood and salvaged vintage canvases, incorporating objects, such as African-American dolls and antique tools, that she found in secondhand shops in rural Maine.
Both exhibitions will run through Dec. 23.
