Longtime Friends
The artists Connie Fox and Robert Dash first met in the 1950s at the University of New Mexico and reconnected on the East End some two decades later. "Connie & Bob," a show that highlights their friendship and artwork, will open at the Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
The paintings, which range from 1955 to 2003, reflect both artists' focus on nature; specifically flowers. Ms. Fox used the form of the flower as a metaphor for the human body, often painting a face at its center, while Dash was as fascinated with depicting flowers as he was in growing them in his garden, now the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack.
The exhibition will run through Sept. 5.
Futura's "Tarpestries"
Among the most celebrated graffiti artists of the 1980s, Futura has continued an innovative studio practice over the past four decades. "Tarpestries," an exhibition of more than 20 paintings and a new sculpture in bronze, will open at Eric Firestone's gallery and warehouse spaces on Newtown Lane in East Hampton on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will remain on view through Sept. 18.
For the tarpestries, the artist spray-paints on manipulated industrial tarps instead of canvas, creating highly paint-saturated surfaces. The abstract works, which range in size from seven to 25 feet, are displayed unstretched and unframed, in the same manner as traditional tapestries.
Pollock's Classmate on View
A classmate of Jackson Pollock's in high school in Los Angeles, Harold Lehman, who lived from 1913 to 2006, was only 19 when he joined the Bloc of Painters, led by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.
"Harold Lehman: The Nineteen Thirties," an exhibition of Lehman's paintings, drawings, and documentation of his work from that decade, is opening Thursday at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, and will remain there through Oct. 30.
Lehman again teamed up with Siqueiros in the 1930s, in a workshop where he, Pollock, and others learned to use liquid paint and unconventional techniques, which influenced Pollock's later poured paintings.
Art and Brooks-Park
Janet Jennings and Janet Goleas will be at ARC Fine Art in East Hampton on Thursday at 5 p.m. Ms. Jennings, who is known for her luminous landscape and abstract paintings, will talk about her art, while Ms. Goleas, who is an artist and curator, will discuss the Brooks-Park Arts and Nature Center in Springs and the efforts to save it.
Deer and Turkeys
"There Goes the Neighborhood . . . ," an outdoor installation of sculpture by Wendy Klemperer, opens Thursday at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs, to run through Oct. 16. A reception will be held Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Ms. Klemperer's installation is inspired by such creatures as white-tailed deer and wild turkeys, that have rebounded after having faced extinction in the last century. To fashion her large-scale sculptures, she searches scrapyards for bent and twisted pieces of industrial refuse, which she welds in a process she likens to three-dimensional gestural drawing.
Modern Meets Ancient
"Pohua," a show of recent sculptures and works on paper by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, is on view at the Lisson Gallery in East Hampton through Aug. 14. "Pohua" means "to count" in Nahuatl, the ancient language of Mexico, and the titles of the artist's stone carvings in the exhibition are the Nahuatl names for numbers.
The sculptures are carved directly in tezontle, a volcanic stone integral to Mexico's landscape and a recurring material for the artist, who applies a modern vocabulary to sources found in ancient art.
The Golden Ratio
The Leiber Collection in Springs will host "The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci in Art," a talk by the East Hampton artist Chris Kelly, on Saturday at 5 p.m. in its garden.
Mr. Kelly, whose work is part of the Leiber Collection's "Garden of Friends" exhibition, will discuss the history of the Golden Ratio in art, how it relates to the geometry of nature, and its use as a source of inspiration for his paintings and sculpture.
Tickets can be reserved on the venue's website.
Vibrant Interiors
"Everything Energy," an exhibition of paintings by Paul Wackers, can be seen beginning Saturday at the Jack Hanley Gallery in East Hampton and continue through Sept. 4. Based in Brooklyn, Mr. Wackers creates still-life paintings filled with household items, ceramics, plants, and abstract decorative objects, characterized by vibrant colors and linear precision.
The complex aggregations of objects, many made by the artist himself, are often framed by a grid system consisting of shelving, fences, and windows.
Beaches and Cityscapes
"Friends, Lovers, and Others," photographs by Christophe von Hohenberg, and "Afterward," drawings by Susan Grossman, will open at MM Fine Art in Southampton on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will continue through Aug. 21.
Mr. von Hohenberg is showing photographs from 1985 to 2022, including commissioned portraits and beach landscapes, some of which can be found in his book "The White Album of the Hamptons."
Working from photographs taken on her walks across New York City, Ms. Grossman repositions buildings and vehicles while adding or removing characters, to create drawings that evoke the drama of film noir cityscapes.
Art World Voices
LongHouse Reserve's lecture series, Inside Outsider: New Voices in the Art World, will feature two artists from the Shinnecock Nation, Jeremy Dennis, a fine-art photographer, and Andrina Smith, a spoken-word artist, on Saturday morning at 11. The outdoor conversation will be moderated by the installation artist and curator MAGO, a.k.a. Enrique J. Martinez Jr.
Tickets are $20, free for members.
Banks and D'Arcy
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton will open two exhibitions on Friday: "All You Can Eat," ceramics by Monica Banks, and "Off the Record," paintings by Maeve D'Arcy. Both shows will continue through Aug. 30.
Ms. Banks is showing new vessels and utensils along with earlier ceramic cakes and other pieces, including portraits of dead birds and houses. The dots, lines, and shapes in Ms. D'Arcy's paintings are a measure of real time, as well as time in the form of memories, flashbacks, daydreams, and nightmares.
Art in the Park
Karyn Mannix of Karyn Mannix Contemporary will launch the Hampton Iconic Artist Marketplace in East Hampton's Herrick Park on Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A juried exhibition, it will feature art by more than 30 artists, each of whom will have a dedicated space in which to display their work.
Counterculture on Display
"New York Eye & Ear Control," an exhibition of printed works, ephemera, photography, and book art from the fields of punk, hip-hop, and counterculture, will be displayed through Tuesday at the Montauk Beach House.
Organized by Johan Kugelberg, a collector and archivist, the show includes work by more than 30 artists, among them Lizzie Bougatsos, Matthew Satz, Fab Five Freddy, Sofia Leilani, Charlie Ahearn, Dalton Portella, Amy Sillman, Jack Smith, and David Wojnarowicz.
Hamada in Hudson
"Forsaken Forgotten Found," an exhibition of sculpture by Hiroyuki Hamada of East Hampton, is now on view at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, N.Y., through Aug. 28. The title of the show, which includes a large new sculpture of pigmented resin, reflects the fact that each piece has gone through phases of interruption, renewed momentum, and change.
Artists on Film
In connection with its current exhibition, "Figures Transformed," the Southampton Arts Center will screen two films by Lana Jokel, "Hal Buckner: Art Is How You See It" and "Strong-Cuevas Sculpture II: I Like to Be Awed," on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Ms. Jokel, Mr. Buckner, and Ms. Strong-Cuevas will be present for a post-screening discussion and reception. Tickets are $10, free for members.
Satz at Elizabeth Dow
An opening reception for an exhibition of paintings and prints by Matthew Satz will be held tomorrow from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Elizabeth Dow Home in East Hampton.
Mr. Satz, who is based in Amagansett, is known for his conceptually driven, process-oriented work. Of the ongoing engagement between his practice and art history, he has said, "My interests lie in engaging in an art historical dialogue where I'm able to present an intelligent, if not elegant, solution to a problem."
The show will run through Sept. 30.
