Schapiro's Early Work
"Miriam Schapiro: The Andre Emmerich Years, Paintings From 1957-76," an exhibition of work by one of the pioneers of the feminist art movement, is at the Eric Firestone Gallery at 40 Great Jones Street in NoHo through May 13.
Schapiro, who had a house in Wainscott for more than 60 years, is often associated with the Pattern and Decoration Movement, which emerged in the mid-1970s. Her work of that period fused craft with modern painting in collages she called "femmage."
This exhibition, however, focuses on her early Abstract Expressionist canvases from the 1950s, her more geometric work of the early '60s, and her use of computer technology to create hard-edge geometric paintings in the late '60s.
Saunter to Harpers
"Sauntering Days" is the latest exhibition at Harper's East Hampton. A group show, it features the artists John Joseph Mitchell, Ellen Siebers, and Elisa Soliven.
Ms. Siebers inserts into her lush abstractions more realistic scenes and portraits, as if a cell phone displaying an image might have been placed on top of them. Ms. Soliven's ceramic pieces are idiosyncratic busts, torsos, and vessels loosely modeled on naturalistic forms that have taken hard left turns into the surreal and the metaphysical. Mr. Mitchell's gentle genre paintings are realistic but broadly so, expressed in a palette of colors muted with shades of grays and browns.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and the show will remain on view through May 8.
Weather, Time, and Migration
Solo shows of paintings by An Hoang and Studio Lenca, a.k.a. Jose Campos, will open on Saturday at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. It will continue through April 30.
"The Apple and the Moon," Ms. Hoang's show, features recent paintings that capture fleeting moments in nature with a bright and vibrant palette. The abstract elements of weather, time, and space are suggested by billowing forms that move the eye across the canvas, with gesture and line playing a prominent role.
Mr. Campos had to flee the civil war in El Salvador in the late 1980s, traveling with his mother to the United States by land. His four paintings depict the artist and his community wearing hats and vibrant colors, in defiance of an environment where migrants are expected to remain hidden.
Both Sides Now
"Yin Yang," a group exhibition, will be at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton from Friday through April 30. The show's title is a metaphor for the "two sides of the canvas, figurative and abstract," say the gallery's owners, Andrea McCafferty and Kat O'Neill.
The exhibition includes works by Susan Tepper, Gregory Goy, Lynn Savarese, Edward Lentsch, Paul D. Fuentes, Sylvie Perrin, John Francis Gallagher, Joanne Handler, and others.
Inspired by Welden
"Under the Influence," a two-part exhibition of work by artists inspired by the master printmaker Dan Welden, is on view by appointment at Mr. Welden's studio on Millstone Road in Noyac.
The first installation, up through April 2, features Chris Ann Ambery, Justin Greenwald, Samuel Havens, Susan Bachemin, Scott Bluedorn, Cynthia Di Giacomo, Vito DeVito, and Catherine Freudenberg.
Part two will include work by Ted Thirlby, Carol Hunt, Roy Nicholson, Beth Atkinson, Rob Calvert, Eric Fischl, Ellen Peckham, and Char Ortiz. It will open with a reception on April 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. and continue through April 23.
Appointments can be made by calling 631-725-3990.
Linda Stein Abroad
The artist Linda Stein, who has a home in East Hampton, is busy overseas. "Androgynous Protection: A Linda Stein Retrospective" will open at the Art Museum in Skovde, Sweden, on April 22 and continue through Sept. 10. "Linda Stein: Gender Scrambling" will open the same day at the Victoria Gallery and Museum in Liverpool, England. It will run through Sept. 2.
In the meantime, newly acquired works by Ms. Stein are now on view at the museum in Skovde and at the Manchester Art Gallery in England.
Closer to home, "In Their Element(s): Women Artists Across Media," set to open on April 20 at the Fairfield Art Museum in Connecticut, will include her work.
