Kendrick/Dunham
The artists Mel Kendrick and Carroll Dunham are longtime friends and former studio assistants to Dorothea Rockburne. In conjunction with its current exhibition, "Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things," the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a conversation between the artists on Saturday at 3 p.m., when they will explore their respective careers and approaches to making art.
Mr. Kendrick's exhibition illuminates how he pushes the limits of materials including wood, rubber, and concrete to create sculpture that reveals the process by which it was made.
Tickets are $16, $10 for senior citizens and members' guests, and $5 for members and students.
Honoring M.L.K.
"Dream Big," the Artists Alliance of East Hampton's members show, will be at Ashawagh Hall in Springs Saturday through Monday. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, the Rev. Walter Silva Thompson of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton will discuss the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the dreams of artists such as Rosa Hanna Scott, a former president of the alliance. A reception will follow from 4 to 6.
Gallery hours are 10 to 6 on Saturday and Sunday, 10 to 4 on Monday.
Outdoors In
Ann Fristoe Stewart, the director and curator of the Leiber Collection in Springs, has organized an exhibition at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton of work by artists who showed in the Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden's summer 2022 exhibition.
The show, which will continue through Jan. 28, includes work by Monica Banks, Philippe Cheng, Scott Bluedorn, Pipi Deer, Jeremy Dennis, Sabra Moon Elliot, Saskia Friedrich, Jeremy Grosvenor, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Chris Kelly, Laurie Lambrecht, Jill Musnicki, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Christine Sciulli, Bill Stewart, and Almond Zigmund. Work by Judith and Gerson Leiber will also be on view.
Pillow Talk
"Stephen Antonakos: Pillows," an exhibition of work from the early 1960s by an artist who had a home in Sag Harbor from 1987 until his death in 2013, will be at Bookstein Projects in Manhattan from Friday through Feb. 24.
The pillows were a departure for Antonakos, who had been working with abstract geometry in neon when he suddenly turned to the European traditions of found objects and assemblage. Some of the pillows are presented "as is," while others are variously painted, manipulated, or even hidden beneath their pillowcases.
Of the series, the artist said, "It had me in its grip. I was going somewhere else, but it wound me up and pulled me into its coil."
"Down and Dirty" Redux
"Down and Dirty," a new iteration of a two-person exhibition of work by Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne that took place at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in 2021, will open Friday at Project: ARTspace in Manhattan and continue through March 11.
Both artists manipulate materials such as rubber and wax "to suggest the 'dark side' of ordinary functional objects that are generally overlooked as traditional subjects for sculpture," according to the gallery. Those objects include ventilation grilles, drains, grates, bunkers, crates, dynamite, weeds, and insects.
A reception will be held on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Lieberman Landscapes
"Worshipping at the Altar," a show of recent paintings by Bruce Lieberman that reflect his garden and the woods near his Water Mill house, is at the Alfred Van Loen Gallery in the South Huntington Library through March 29.
A representational painter, Mr. Lieberman's work draws from the people, objects, and natural world he is familiar with, as well as from the history of painting. The vibrantly colorful landscapes in the exhibition reflect the seasonal changes of the light, shadows, and temperature of his surroundings. One, painted on Groundhog Day, wittily includes the shadow of the artist and his easel.
A reception will be held on Jan. 21 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Seelbach in Setauket
Gallery North in Setauket will open "Elements Adrift," an exhibition of paintings by Anne Seelbach, with a reception Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show, which will run through Feb. 19, includes work from three of the artist's series. The "Troubled Waters" paintings reflect the pollution that threatens Long Island's waterways, the "Moon Paintings" are inspired by the edge where earth, water, and sky meet, and the "Elements" series engages with the components of our planet.
A talk by Patricia Woodruff of the Stony Brook School of Marine and Atmospheric Studies will take place on Friday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. A talk by the artist is set for Feb. 4 at 3 p.m.
