JR Inside and Out
"Les Enfants d'Ouranos," a 200-foot photographic montage of 40 children running and playing in refugee camps, has been installed on the south facade of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where it will remain for a year. The images were taken by JR, a French artist, at camps in Rwanda, Ukraine, Mauritania, Greece, and Colombia.
In addition to the mural, "Les Enfants d'Ouranos, Bois #6," a large-scale work with similar imagery printed on reclaimed wood, is on view in the museum's lobby gallery. The figures in both works are printed as negatives, so that "shadows are filled with light, the subjects are illuminated and radiant, and the figures take on an otherworldly aura," says the museum.
JR himself will be at the Parrish on Friday, June 9, at 6 p.m., to talk about the project and sign copies of his most recent catalog raisonne, "Artist Until I Find a Real Job." Tickets are $16, $12 for senior citizens, $5 for members, free for students and children.
Advanced Printmaking
Due to the popularity of its monotype printmaking workshops, The Church in Sag Harbor has announced an advanced session for those who have attended at least two introductory workshops. The advanced workshop, which will be led by Samuel Havens and Susan Bachemin, will take place Friday from 2 to 6 p.m.
The cost is $200, and the class is expected to fill quickly. Registration through the website is recommended.
East End Photographers
The East End Photographers Group will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs from Saturday through June 11, with a reception scheduled for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show includes work by more than 25 members of the group, which was formed in 1988 to promote photography and visual arts in a community setting.
Gallery hours are Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday, 1 to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, June 9, 1 to 5, June 10, 10 to 6, and June 11, 1 to 4.
African Textile Design
"Iya Alaro (Mother of Dyers)," an outdoor installation by Oluwaseyi (Shayee) Awoyomi, a textile dyer from Nigeria, will be mounted on Friday at the Southampton History Museum's Halsey House and Garden. It will remain on view through Sept. 15.
The 50-foot-long mural, whose creation was organized by Harlem Needle Arts, was previously on display for a year in Harlem. It depicts the "mother of dyers," who oversees the indigo harvest and the production of indigo-dyed cloth.
The role of indigo-dyed fabric production and trade was developed hundreds of years ago by women in Yorubaland in West Africa. Its importance as a sacred color used in dye-resist fabrics continues with the Yoruba people today.
Scenes of Black Life
"You Shall Go to the Moon," an exhibition of paintings by Rosalind Letcher, will open at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., and continue through Friday, June 9.
Beginning in the mid-1970s, Ms. Letcher developed a style of narrative figuration, with a warm palette and glossy surfaces, depicting a vision of growing up Black in America.
Her family moved to Sag Harbor Hills in 1971, and she later became a key member of the Eastville Artists, seven of whom exhibited at Guild Hall in 1979. During the period of her involvement with the group, she began to paint the world of her neighborhood, including the beach, her house, her family, and her friends, as well as scenes rooted in her childhood memories.
A Dire Future
"Five Element Theory," a show of paintings by Jackson O'Brasky, opens Thursday at AB NY Gallery in East Hampton; it will run through July 2.
Mr. O'Brasky's paintings present a meticulously rendered view of a future society after an environmental collapse. Scenic landscapes, devoid of humans, are populated by the detritus of a failed industrial civilization, yet freighted with mystery as to what these objects are and what purpose they served.
A reception will be held on June 10 from 4 to 8 p.m.
Geometric Abstraction
"Geotex," an exhibition of textile-based artworks that feature geometric forms and patterns, is at Jeff Lincoln Art and Design in Southampton through Sept. 15. The show includes traditional weaving, felting, knitting, knotting, printing, and stitching.
The participating artists are Tanya Aguiniga, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Nancy Brooks Brody, Liz Collins, Jesse Harrod, LoVid, Toni Ross, Laurel Sparks, Brent Wadden, Sarah Wertzberger, and Kristine Woods.
