Ab Ex Heroines
Rick Friedman bought his first painting, by Roy Lichtenstein, in 2005. Less than 20 years later, the collection of Mr. Friedman and his partner, Cindy Lou Wakefield, has grown exponentially, with an emphasis on the New York School. An exhibition of 100 works by 31 women artists from that collection will open Saturday at the Southampton Arts Center.
"Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era: From the New York School to the Hamptons" features work by abstract artists such as Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Perle Fine, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. It also includes work by women whose art, while not abstract, is associated with that era, among them Mercedes Matter, Hedda Sterne, Jane Freilicher, and Jane Wilson.
At the time of New York's emergence as the center of the art world, it was the male artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and many others, who received the lion's share of acclaim. Recent years have seen a comprehensive revision of that underappreciation through museum shows such as this one, and books.
A reception will be held on Oct. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will remain on view through Dec. 27.
Inspired by Nature
"Across the Fields: Sheridan Lord and Racelle Strick" will open at the Drawing Room in East Hampton on Friday and continue through Nov. 19.
Both artists moved to the East End in the late 1960s, Strick commissioning Andrew Geller to design a modernist beach house and studio in Bridgehampton, and Lord buying a 19th-century farmhouse in Sagaponack.
The exhibition contrasts their responses to the natural landscape and built environment. Strick is represented by a series of monotypes on paper that range from minimalist abstractions to more gestural works.
Lord's paintings focus on open landscapes and the vernacular shingled houses and farm buildings of the region.
Art World Landmark
From 1956 to 1967, a collection of former warehouses on Coenties Slip, a dead-end street in Lower Manhattan, was home to a circle of artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Delphine Seyrig, and Lenore Tawney.
Prudence Peiffer, the author of the just-published book "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever," will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Friday at 6 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of that book, which The New York Times called "a tenderly researched group biography . . . [with a] strong oral history flavor."
Tickets are $16, $12 for senior citizens, $5 for members, free for students and children.
Morris Honored
Lindsay Morris, a Sag Harbor photographer, is one of five photography artists to be recognized by the New York Foundation for the Arts with its 2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography. The fellowship is a $7,000 cash grant open to New York State photographers living and working outside of New York City.
Ms. Morris is known for documenting events in her personal life and surrounding community. A regular contributor to The New York Times, her monograph "You Are You" documented a summer camp for gender-creative children and their families.
Art's Purpose
Chris Kelly, an artist and East Hampton native, will discuss "The Purpose of Art" at the Leiber Collection in Springs on Saturday afternoon at 4. Mr. Kelly studied painting and sculpture at Cornell University, and his work has been widely exhibited.
Nature's hidden geometry has been an ongoing source of inspiration for the artist, especially in the form of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence. His talk will explore why art is a necessity, "not just for artists, but for all of human culture."
A question-and-answer session and reception will follow the talk.
Also at the Leiber Collection, Roisin Bateman, a Sag Harbor artist, will lead an art-making workshop on Sunday at 2 p.m. Participants will use materials such as vines, leaves, and twigs from the venue's garden and bind them with wire to create sculptural forms. Refreshments will be served.
An Artist's Journey
As part of its Projections series, which engages its audience with other nonprofit organizations, the Sag Harbor Cinema has joined with OLA of Eastern Long Island to host a free event focused on the work of J. Oscar Molina, a Salvadoran-American artist with a gallery in Southampton, on Monday at 1 p.m.
The program will begin with a screening of "Children of the World," a 15-minute film about Mr. Molina's migration through the Arizona desert as a 16-year-old escaping violence in his country, and its impact on his art.
A panel discussion will follow with Mr. Molina, Minerva Perez, OLA's executive director; Esperanza León, head of education and community engagement at LongHouse Reserve; Mago Martinez, a Latinx artist, filmmaker, and diversity curator, and Cristina Cuomo, founder and editor-in-chief of Purist magazine.
A.A.E.H. Members Show
The Artists Alliance of East Hampton's fall members art show will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs from Friday through Tuesday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The gallery will be open daily from 10 to 6, and Wednesday from 10 to 4.
This article has been modified from its print version to include the art workshop at the Leiber Collection, which was announced after the section went to press.
