Order, Chaos, Creation
The third iteration of the multi-site exhibition “Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Future by Honoring Now” will open Saturday at AB NY Gallery in East Hampton with a reception from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Organized in collaboration with Keyes Art, the show features the work of Cullen Washington Jr., a contemporary abstract painter who lives and works in New York City.
The artist's large-scale mixed-media paintings use such materials as tape, canvas, acrylic paint, charcoal dust, rubber, Kraft paper, house paint, and wire, among others. “In an effort to understand order, chaos, creation, and other natural phenomena, I utilize non-representational abstraction,” he has said.
The show will continue through March 31.
Brooks-Park Art Hike
In the late 1950s, the artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park relocated from Montauk to an 11-acre property on Neck Path in Springs. The town of East Hampton purchased the property in 2013. Because the site had remained unchanged since the artists’ deaths, the Brooks-Park Heritage Project was formed to preserve the buildings as a community arts space.
On Sunday morning at 10, Irwin Levy of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will lead a tour of the property and the adjacent trails. The event will include a presentation by members of the heritage project management committee, about its vision for the site’s restoration as the Brooks-Park Arts and Nature Center.
The meeting place is Eastside Court off Neck Path. Mr. Levy can be reached by phone or text at 516-456-1337, or email at [email protected].
The Sea in Manhattan
“The End,” an exhibition of five large-scale limited-edition acrylics and 12 framed C-prints by James Katsipis, will open at the Redu NYC showroom on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Wednesday and remain on view through March 23. The concept at the root of the show is the near-death experience -- the artist, as a surfer, has had several. Montauk ("The End") is also Mr. Katsipis’s hometown.
The ocean figures prominently in his work. “Blustery Goodness,” from his “BLURZ” series, is a slow shutter pan of the ocean that results in an abstract paintbrush effect. Work from his “Landscape” series includes “Heaven’s Gate,” a moody photograph of Montauk’s first fishing dock, since torn down and replaced. His “Mermaids From Montauk” series is also represented.
The exhibition was organized by the art advisory sector of Courtney Daniels Consulting.
Two at The Church
In conjunction with its current photography exhibition “Clear Out to Sea,” The Church in Sag Harbor will host talks by two participating artists, Sally Gall and Jane Martin.
Ms. Gall will discuss her series “Aerial,” in which commonplace objects -- items of hanging laundry -- are transformed into abstract bursts of color. She has said of the series, “Ordinary identifiable objects become mysterious, strange, outside the human realm.” The talk will take place on Saturday at 4 p.m.
“Distant Lands,” a series of Ms. Martin’s photographs from her worldwide travels, is also on view at The Church. She will talk about that series, as well as her other work in painting, photography, video installation, and films, on Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. Forces of nature have been her enduring theme.
Tickets are $10 for each talk.
Inviting Interiors
The artist JJ Manford paints a variety of vibrant domestic interior scenes -- city lofts, suburban homes, and rural cabins -- with oil stick, pastel, and Flashe paint. “Our House,” an exhibition of his new works, will open Friday at Harper’s Gallery in Los Angeles with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through March 26.
Mr. Manford's interiors are filled with antique furniture, decorated objects, canonical and invented artworks, and ornately patterned rugs on hardwood floors. In one, a Sonic the Hedgehog figurine sits atop a mid-century end table; in another, a ceramic Elvis lamp is next to an abstract landscape painting.
Devoid of people, the scenes in “Our House” invite the viewer’s virtual habitation, says the gallery. “Manford’s audience is essentially his guest.”
Nature and Abstraction
Eric Dever, a painter with a studio in Water Mill, is next up in the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center’s series of virtual artist talks. Mr. Dever will show his paintings, which are inspired by the seasonal colors of Eastern Long Island, and discuss artists with whom he feels an affinity, among them Degas and Hokusai.
Before Mr. Dever’s presentation, Joyce Raimondo, the center’s education coordinator, will tour the studio of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, with a focus on how abstract art can capture the beauty and energy of nature.
The Zoom program is happening Thursday at 4 p.m.
Winter Art Show
The Southampton Artists Association’s winter art exhibition will open Friday at the Southampton Cultural Center and remain on view through Feb. 27. The gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; a reception will be held on Feb. 27 from 3 to 4.
This article has been modified from its original and print version to correct the location of Redu NYC's showroom for the James Katsipis exhibition, which is in Manhattan, not Brooklyn.
