New at Fireplace
The Fireplace Project in Springs will open "It's True What They Say," showcasing work by Shauna Steinbach and Dante Cannatella, on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
Ms. Steinbach's mixed-media sculptures often combine disparate materials such as resin clay, artificial flowers, concrete, cellophane, steel, and plastic netting into eccentric configurations.
Mr. Cannatella's paintings are influenced in part from growing up amidst the destruction and rebuilding of New Orleans, with figures caught in powerful forces of nature.
The exhibition will continue through Aug. 14.
Artists for Haiti
The fifth annual Hamptons Artists for Haiti benefit will happen on Saturday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the East Hampton Airport. The event was organized by Coco Myers to benefit Wings Over Haiti, a nonprofit founded in 2010 by Jonathan Glynn. It will include a silent auction of work by more than 30 artists.
Mr. Glynn, a Sag Harbor artist and small-plane pilot, began flying into remote regions with aid after the 2010 earthquake. Those missions developed into Wings Over Haiti, which opened its first school in 2010 in Port au Prince, and its second two years ago in Ranquitte.
Tickets are $175 in advance from wingsoverhaiti.net, $195 at the door. Children under 12 are admitted free of charge.
Solos at Halsey McKay
Two solo exhibitions at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton will remain on view through Aug. 1. "First Light: Our Stories" features fiber art and quilted works by L'Merchie Frazier that portray the lives and legacies of African-descended people both within her community and throughout history.
"Ten Minutes Ago" includes three drawings and two paintings by Lois Lane, whose work draws inspiration from the commercial images in magazines and melodramas she absorbed as a child.
Pollock and Mexico
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center's Lichtenstein Lecture series will continue with "Mexico and the Birth of Jackson Pollock's Art," a free talk by Elizabeth Langhorne, an art historian, that will take place via Zoom on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Pollock's artistic evolution and inspiration from mythological sources was forwarded in the work of the Mexican artists Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco, and in the myth of Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec feathered-serpent god who brought wind and rains.
Johanna Vanderbeek at Ashawagh
A retrospective exhibition of monoprints, sculpture, and mixed-media works by Johanna Vanderbeek will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs for one day only, Wednesday, from 2 to 8 p.m., with a reception set for 6 to 8. Ms. Vanderbeek's artwork explores images of nature and is influenced by dreams and emotions.
Other artists whose work will be in the show are Pat Apatovsky, Regina Cherry, Sari Dienes, Elizabeth Geissler, Hanna (H7L) Lauridsen, Patty Mucha, Sumayyah Samaha, Claire Satin, Adrienne Schwartz, Madeline Sorel, Anita Steckel, and Neil Noland.
A Tribute to Passion
"Passion," an exhibition organized by George Negroponte as a tribute to the painter Lester Johnson (1919-2010), will open at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. It will continue through Aug. 9.
The show pairs Johnson's paintings with artwork by five contemporary artists, Virva Hinnemo, Erika Ranee, Eric Holzman, Adam Bartos, and Kristy Schopper.
A book signing and reading of "Rene," a compilation of William Rand's diaries devoted to Rene Ricard, will take place this evening at 5.
Images of Race and Family
"My Love for Our Community," a show of photographs by John Pinderhughes, will open Sunday at the Southampton African American Museum and continue through Sept. 10. The exhibition features portraits of family and friends that together constitute "an expanded narrative . . . on gender, race, family, and community history," according to Deborah Willis, the author of "Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers."
A ticketed reception will take place on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.; tickets are $50.
The World As Stage
"Global Stage," a show of paintings and mixed-media works by Melora Griffis, opens Thursday at the Sarah Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will continue through Aug. 4.
Ms. Griffis's work is influenced by her background in the theater, where she has worked as an actor, writer, designer, and director. The stage is literally present in "Actors' Quarters," where a theater is fashioned from acrylic, velvet, brocade, glitter, leather, and mirror on canvas.
Timeless Scenes
Recent work by Cornelia Foss and "Summer Haze," a group exhibition, will be on view at MM Fine Art in Southampton from Saturday through July 31, with a reception set for Saturday evening from 6 to 8.
Ms. Foss is inspired by her surroundings, painting the beaches and landscapes of the East End, the exuberant flower garden of her Long Island home, and views of Central Park.
"Summer Haze" features timeless and familiar summer scenes by the East End-focused artists Rainer Andreesen, Edwina Lucas, Michael Meehan, and Dinah Maxwell Smith.
Speaking at The Church
Christa Maiwald and Lucy Winton will be at The Church in Sag Harbor on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. to discuss their work in the current exhibition, "Threading the Needle."
Ms. Maiwald's "Musical Chairs: Economic Crisis in G Minor" consists of 13 children's chairs, with cushions hand-embroidered with portraits of economists whose policies helped cause the 2008 recession.
Ms. Winton's "Rabbit Moon" uses a found tapestry as the ground for a witty, mysterious composition featuring an alert rabbit, several floating playing cards, and a sliver of moon.
Tickets are $15.
The Sea in Motion
Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Lyndal Vermette trained in the studio of her mother's art gallery. Now based in Westchester County, she works with alcohol ink, resin, and acrylic to create rich and vibrant bursts of color, many of which evoke the undulations of oceanic motion.
"One Mile Out," an exhibition of Ms. Vermette's paintings, can be seen at the J. Mackey Gallery in East Hampton through July 31.
Fiber and Fabric
Onna House in East Hampton, founded by the fashion designer Lisa Perry to highlight the work of women artists and designers, is presenting "A Loom of One's Own: Fiber and Fabric," through July 31.
The exhibition includes work by Amy Wickersham, Bastienne Schmidt, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Christy Matson, Claire Watson, Laurie Lambrecht, Mary Little, Saskia Friedrich, Suzanne Tick, Tanya Aguiniga, and Toni Ross.
Onna House is open by appointment only, by emailing [email protected].
Gesture and Movement
A collaboration among Nigel Barker, a fashion photographer, William Quigley, a painter, and Cristen and Kimberly Chin, models known professionally as the Chin Twins, will open on Saturday at the AB NY Gallery in East Hampton, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m.
The acrobatic twins, who are also yoga instructors, are the central figures in works on canvas that combine photographs of them by Mr. Barker with Mr. Quigley's gestural swirls of color and text.
The exhibition will continue through July 26.
Provocative Paintings
"MUSA," an exhibition of paintings by the Cuban-born artist Tomas Esson, is at the David Lewis Gallery in East Hampton from Saturday through Aug. 7. The show follows a career retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, where the artist moved in 1990.
From his first show in Havana in 1988, which was censored and closed by Cuban authorities, Mr. Esson has created expressionistic and provocative paintings full of energy, mythological references, and political commentary.
The Power of Paint
"Life, Saturated," a show of work by four contemporary painters, will open with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor. It will continue through Aug. 7.
Participating artists are Hunt Slonem, known for his neo-expressionistic canvases; Nelson H. White, an American impressionist; Steven Levin, who creates muted, realistic interiors and still lifes, and Kelly Carmody, whose still life and portrait subjects have an impressionistic quality.
Geometry and Texture
The current installation at Selavy by Di Donna in Southampton features the work of two 20th-century artists, the Italian painter Nuvolo and the French woodworker Pierre Chapo.
Nuvolo, a member of the Arte Povera group, used commonplace textiles and deerskin within the easel painting format and, in the late 1950s, produced improvisational works using a motorized sewing machine.
After a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, Chapo returned to France and, influenced by Wright, began to create chairs, tables, and benches.
Utopian Visions
"Psychedelic Landscape," an exhibition of work by more than 20 artists, opens Thursday at Eric Firestone Gallery at 40 Great Jones Street in Manhattan, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will remain on view through Aug. 26.
The show is inspired by the ongoing desire of artists to conjure dreamscapes and utopian visions. Many of the works are characterized by kaleidoscopic patterns, optical illusions, and fantastic beings.
Among the artists are Amie Cunat, John DeFazio, Martha Edelheit, Mimi Gross, Sheila Isham, and Fred Tomaselli.
Semmel Retrospective
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University is presenting "Joan Semmel: A Skin in the Game," the first retrospective of the artist's six-decade career, through Aug. 21.
While Ms. Semmel, who has a house in Springs, began her career as an Abstract Expressionist painter, her disappointment with the prevalence of sexual images of women in the mass media led her to pivot to representational images of sexual encounters, from a female viewpoint.
That point of view has continued since the 1970s, through nude paintings of herself, a practice she has enriched through a variety of artistic strategies.
Painting With Robotics
In conjunction with the exhibition "Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond," Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. D.J. Spooky, will discuss "Love, Death, and Robots: How to Make a Painting Using Robots," on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.
From ArtMatr, which pairs traditional painting with current technologies, Mr. Miller used drawing robotics in his work. Ben Tritt, the founder of ArtMatr, will join Mr. Miller to talk about his creative process.
Artist Book Signing
JHB Gallery, in collaboration with Jetsam Studio in Southampton, will host a reception and book-signing by the artist Jaanika Peerna on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.
The book, "Glacier Elegies," is a new monograph exploring the artist's series of performance works lamenting the loss of glaciers and natural ice.
This article has been modified from its print version to include the Johanna Vanderbeek exhibition.
