Early Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler's work from the early 1950s is the subject of the next virtual talk in the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center's ongoing lecture series, presented in conjunction with its current exhibition, "Creative Exchanges: Artists in Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Address Books."
On Sunday at 5 p.m., Elizabeth Smith, an art historian and museum curator who is the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, will discuss the pivotal role the artist played in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting, in part through her invention of the soak-stain technique, which expanded the possibilities of abstract painting.
A Zoom link is on the center's website.
Rhythmic Paintings
"ALLOFASUDDEN," an exhibition of paintings by Haim Mizrahi, will open Thursday at the Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk and continue through June 6.
The show's title derives, according to the gallery, from the fact that while artists struggle daily with the literal (or metaphorical) blank canvas, "the most powerful/impactful decisions, the ones that drive our work to resolution, happen in an instant."
A musician, poet, and LTV host as well as an artist, Mr. Mizrahi creates large-scale expressionist paintings whose colors and rhythmic compositions reflect his passion for music.
A reception will be held on May 27 from 4 to 7 p.m.
Plein-Air Painting
Barbara Thomas and Scott Bluedorn will conduct outdoor painting workshops in June and July, through the Bridgehampton Museum.
Ms. Thomas, who lives and works in Springs, will lead Session I, starting on June 1 with five classes on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Session II will be led by Mr. Bluedorn, an East Hampton artist, on five Thursdays beginning July 6, also from 10 to 12:30.
The cost of each series is $375, $350 for museum members. Registration is by email to [email protected] or by calling 631-537-1088 ext. 102. Students are responsible for purchasing their own art supplies; materials lists will be given to registrants.
New Season at Markel
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is opening the summer season at its Bridgehampton location Friday with new paintings by Antony Densham, Arielle Zamora, Peter Stephens, Sara MacCulloch, and Rocio Rodriguez.
The show will continue through June 11; gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 6.
Figuration at Grenning
"Musings," a show of work by Steven Levin, Sarah Lamb, Melissa Franklin Sanchez, and Kelly Carmody, is at Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor through June 11.
Mr. Levin's meticulously rendered still-life paintings suggest 17th-century Dutch tableaux, but with surrealist touches provided by their context. Ms. Lamb, too, paints elegant still lifes, often featuring floral arrangements.
Candles, flowers, sentimental items, interiors, and her children figure prominently in Ms. Sanchez's paintings, while the swirling, expressive colors and flattened perspectives in Ms. Carmody's interiors, portraits, and still-life paintings have Fauvist echoes.
Rondinone's Busy Summer
Ugo Rondinone, an artist with a home on the North Fork who had a solo show at Guild Hall in 2019, is having another busy summer. "the sun and the moon," two 16-foot-tall delicate circular sculptures made from cast-bronze tree branches, will open on Saturday at the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y., and remain on view through Nov. 13.
Mr. Rondinone's work can also be seen at the Parrish Art Museum in "Artists Choose Parrish" through Aug. 6, and at the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva through June 18.
In addition, he has organized an installation of outdoor sculpture by Virginia Overton, opening on June 3 at the Landcraft Garden Foundation in Mattituck.
Firestone Double Play
"Sally Cook: Where Fantasy Has Bloomed, Painting and Poetry Since the 1960s," will open on Saturday at Eric Firestone Gallery's NoHo outpost, 40 Great Jones Street, with a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. It will run through June 30.
The show, the artist's first solo exhibition in New York City since 1963, spans Ms. Cook's career, from postwar Abstract Expressionist canvases to geometric abstractions to figurative paintings that echo the tableaux of Florine Stettheimer and the magic realism of Frida Kahlo.
The Eric Firestone Loft at 4 Great Jones Street is the site of "That '70s Show," which opens Thursday with a reception from 4 to 8 p.m. and continues through Sunday. The exhibition includes work by artists who were active during the 1970s, from some 20 New York galleries.
Sag Artist Pops Up
Sara Nightingale, who owns a gallery in Sag Harbor, has organized "A Small Bag, and Nothing More," a pop-up exhibition of mixed-media works by Rose Cameron. It is on view Thursday through Saturday at Designers Collab Space in Brooklyn.
While Ms. Cameron's paintings are primarily abstract, certain elements such as the bold outlines of the Sampaguita, the national flower of the Philippines, from which she emigrated at the age of 12, refer to her early life there. A final layer of her paintings resembles basket weaving, which she learned as a child from her mother.
Ms. Cameron, who divides her time between New York City and Sag Harbor, has exhibited her work internationally.
