Benglis at Pace
An exhibition of never-before-seen works by Lynda Benglis, created between 2017 and 2021, will open on Thursday at the Pace Gallery in East Hampton and continue through Aug. 28.
Ms. Benglis’s experimental works have explored new frontiers in sculpture, painting, and video since the 1960s. She is known for her bold use of color and cultivation of abstract, energetic shapes in her sculpture, which has taken form in such materials as pigmented beeswax, dammar resin, and latex. An important exhibition of her work is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas through Sept. 18.
Zucker's Shtetls
“Detritus 2020,” a selection of recent works created by Joe Zucker during the pandemic, is on view in the summer studio at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack through Sept. 17.
While in isolation, Mr. Zucker used Sholom Aleichem’s short stories as a guide in depicting the wreckage of Eastern Europe amid violence and bloodshed, past and present. He reused materials from his studio, such as cardboard, masking tape, and rubber flooring tiles to construct raw images of shtetls, the close-knit, observant Jewish villages that existed in Eastern Europe before World War II.
Portraits and Blotches
Harper's Gallery in East Hampton will open exhibitions of paintings by Stacy Leigh and Jeremy Lawson with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.
In "The Condition of Things," Ms. Leigh paints women who sneer and scowl in defiance of attempts to inhibit their bodily autonomy. Her subjects live in a stylized suburbia of golf courses and cookie-cutter houses.
While Mr. Lawson takes a process-oriented approach to gestural abstraction, unlike the Abstract Expressionists he does so without brushes, painting directly and imprecisely with his hands to deposit blotches, smears, and clumps of intense color.
The exhibitions will continue until Oct. 9.
Depression-Era Murals
W.P.A. murals from the 1930s, including one by Harold Lehman, is the subject of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center's next Lichtenstein Lecture, which will take place via Zoom on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Greta Berman, an art historian, will provide a context for Mr. Lehman's mural "Man's Daily Bread," which was made for the Rikers Island penitentiary. Like so many murals of the time, Lehman's dealt primarily with the human condition and issues of poverty, capitalism, and social justice.
An exhibition of Lehman's work is on view in the house through Oct. 30. A Zoom link is on the center's website.
Framing the Atlantic
"Atlantic lullabies, Other tellings," an exhibition of work by Todd Gray, will open Friday at the David Lewis Gallery in East Hampton and continue through Aug. 28.
Mr. Gray’s most recent works are composed of photographs gathered from his own archive and recontextualized, via juxtaposition with one another and the use of antique frames as a structuring device.
The work in the exhibition engages with the Atlantic as the passage from Africa to the United States. Lullabies and folk songs were introduced by enslaved mothers in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Le Pow!
Hauser & Wirth in Southampton will host a book event in honor of the new English translation of "Pow! Right in the Face! Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting," on Saturday at 3 p.m. The book is the 1933 memoir of Berthe Weill, the Parisian art dealer who was the first female gallerist to promote emerging artists.
Lynn Gumpert, the book's editor and the director of NYU's Grey Art Gallery, will discuss Weill's life and impact with Madeline Warren, the senior director of Hauser & Wirth Southampton. The book will be available for purchase.
Image Sampling
"Infinite Scroll," an exhibition of work by Yvette Mayorga, David Salle, Devin Troy Strother, Julia Wachtel, and Allison Zuckerman is on view in the west barn at the Ranch in Montauk through Aug. 27.
The exhibition tracks the artists' responses to the ubiquity of the image in an increasingly fast-paced visual culture, as a source of misinformation, stereotyping, and anxiety, says the gallery. The co-opting of the language and style of new media is a central strategy in their work, which involves borrowing, appropriation, and sampling.
ARTSI Open Studios
The Artists of Shelter Island will hold their annual free open-studios event on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5. ARTSI is a community of more than 20 artists who work together on various cultural events and exhibitions.
Participating artists include Sally Jacobs Baker, Linda Brienza, Janet Culbertson, Kathryn A. Cunningham, Dee DeBenardis, Roz Dimon, Laurie Dolphin, Melora Griffis, Katherine Hammond, Lily Hoffman, Diana Malcolmson, Jackie Pullman, Linda Puls, June Shatken, and Peter Waldner.
Inspired by Nature
Works by Thomas Condon, Richard Denning, and Barbara Groot can be seen from Thursday through Sept. 8 at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Condon is known for his landscapes and floral compositions, inspired by the natural settings of the East End, New York City, and Florida. Mr. Denning's impressionistic watercolors focus on landscapes and figures. The natural world also inspires the bold brushwork of Ms. Groot's abstract paintings.
Speaking of Work
Christina Strassfield, Guild Hall's museum director and chief curator, and curator of the exhibition "Now Here," which is on view at Amagansett's U.S. Life-Saving Station, will moderate a free conversation with the participating artists, Alice Hope, Toni Ross, and Bastienne Schmidt, on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the station.
Ms. Strassfield, who has also organized "Figures Transformed" at the Southampton Arts Center, will host a panel discussion there on Sunday at 4 p.m. with the exhibition artists Deborah Buck, Hal Buckner, and Strong-Cuevas.
Music, Poetry, Paint
An exhibition of fifteen new prints by Dan Welden, a painter and master printmaker, will open at LTV Studios in Wainscott with a performance titled “The Pianist, the Poet, and the Painter” on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
While Axel Quincke, an Argentine pianist, plays music by Rachmaninov, Brahms, Beethoven, and Chopin, Mr. Welden will paint live in reaction to the music, and Mindy Kroenenberg, a poet, will respond with poetry.
The evening is a benefit for LTV and the Inspiration Plus Foundation, a Sag Harbor nonprofit dedicated to bringing awareness to the arts and sciences. Tickets are $20, $15 for senior citizens and students.
This article has been changed from its print version to include the LTV performance, which was announced after the arts section went to press.
