Grants Announced
The Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio in East Hampton and the Mabel and Victor D'Amico Home and Studio and Art Barge on Napeague, both members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Artist Homes and Studios program, have received the Dorothy C. Radgowski Learning Through Women's Achievements in the Arts grants. The awards were made possible with funding from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and will support projects exploring gender equity, public engagement, and student education at historic places.T
The Moran studio, which received $17,925, will present "Artistic Identities: Using STEAM, History, and Artmaking to Understand Gender, Race, and Class." It will focus on the meeting, at the studio, of Mary Nimmo Moran and Sarah Fowler, a weaver and basket maker and member of the Montaukett Nation.
The D'Amico Home and Studio received $15,400 to fund "Mabel D'Amico Full STEAM Ahead: A Found Object Art Tour and Workshop," which will celebrate the experimental art and innovative teaching of Mabel D'Amico.
Animals and Us
"Kingdom: We Are All Animals," an exhibition inspired by the complex connections between human beings and the rest of the animal kingdom, will open at the Oscar Molina Gallery in Southampton on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will remain on view through February.
The show includes depictions of wild horses, a beloved house pet, mythic jungle creatures, farm animals, and a commentary on the comical and humanistic traits we attribute to animals.
Participating artists are Kelynn Alder, Lucy Cookson, Eugenio Cuttica, Paton Miller, and J. Oscar Molina.
Jaudon in Chelsea
"Parameters," an exhibition of paintings by Valerie Jaudon, is at the D.C. Moore Gallery in Chelsea through Nov. 11. The show includes new works as well as paintings from the past two decades.
In 2006, Ms. Jaudon, who has a house in Springs, abandoned color and optical elements for compositions of white paint on bare linen canvas. While her most recent works maintain the simplified palette of white and black paint on raw canvas, she has introduced freely curving lines to create irregular forms within the architecture of the compositions.
Her paintings are also included as selections by Donald Sultan in the "Artists Choose Parrish" show currently installed at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.
Heilmann at Dia Beacon
Mary Heilmann's "Starry Night" series (1967-1971), which has not been seen since its debut at the Paley and Lowe Gallery in SoHo in 1971, is now on view at Dia Beacon in Beacon, N.Y.
The body of work includes black-stained stretched and unstretched canvases inspired by astronomical constellations, several of which were bound into a large book-like work, "The Book of Night." Objects made of clay and bamboo coated in flock complement the canvases. Three-dimensional pieces hanging from high on the wall bring Ms. Heilmann's constructed galaxy into the viewer's space.
"Mary Heilmann: Starry Night," organized by Jordan Carter with Emily Markert, is on extended view.
