Artists as Curators
Jeremy Dennis, Sam Moyer, and Enoc Perez, three of the artists chosen by the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill to select works for the exhibition "Artists Choose Parrish: Part 1," will be at the museum on Friday at 6 p.m. to discuss their own work and their choices for the show with Corinne Erni, the Parrish's chief curator.
Mr. Dennis chose William Merritt Chase's "Shinnecock Landscape" from 1884 to pair with his version of the desecrated Indigenous burial grounds in Southampton.
Hans Hofmann's "Image in Green" (1950) was selected by Mr. Perez to show with his painting "Dorado Beach Hotel, Puerto Rico" from 2023.
Ms. Moyer chose three works by Lynda Benglis to accompany her own black slate, marble, and plaster-coated canvas.
Tickets are $16, $12 for seniors, $5 for members, and free for students and children.
Breaching Convention
"A Crack in Overton's Window," a group exhibition organized by Bill Powers, owner of Manhattan's Half Gallery, will open Saturday in the west barn at the Ranch in Montauk and remain on view through July 5.
The term "Overton window" derives from a concept named for Joseph Overton, an American policy analyst, that refers to the range of policies acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.
Among the "cracks" cited by Mr. Powers are the acceptance of gay marriage, the recognition of color photography as equal artistically to black-and-white imagery, and the recent elevation of women artists who were underrepresented in mid-century art historical discourse.
The exhibition asks if the art on view suggests a modest widening of social norms, or a fracture.
Paintings and Drawings
"Recurrence," an exhibition of paintings by Jamie de Pasquale and drawings by Paton Miller, will open at MM Fine Art in Southampton on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show, which will continue through July 3, was curated by Lana Jokel, a filmmaker whose work focuses primarily on visual artists.
Mr. de Pasquale's black-and-white paintings begin with a dominant image such as a palm tree or a lighthouse, and then proceed to grow by accretion, populating the ground below the horizon line with a profusion of images that play with perspective and scale.
Often inspired by his travels, Mr. Miller's paintings and drawings of animals, human figures, and metaphorical objects merge the primitive and contemporary. "If you want to really get to know an artist, look at their drawings," Mr. Miller has said.
Historic Open Houses
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced that seven member or affiliate designees of its Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program on the South Fork will be open to the public on Tuesday and Wednesday from noon to 4 p.m.
The sites are the D'Amico Studio and Archive on Lazy Point in Amagansett; the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs; the Elaine de Kooning House, LongHouse Reserve, and the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio in East Hampton, and the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack.
Admission is free, and reservations are not required. Addresses can be found at artistshomes.org.
A Painting "Soliloquy"
The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor will open "Soliloquy," a show of paintings by Darius Yektai, with a reception on Friday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The artist's recent work features bold, saturated colors as well as unconventional materials.
In "Cobalt Lilies," for example, a continuation of his "Waterlilies" series, the rich cobalt background symbolizes spiritual depth and suggests endless expansion, according to the gallery.
"Broken Vessels" includes shards of pottery from two vases smashed by vandals in the studio of his father, Manoucher Yektai. The fragments are scattered across a bright yellow background, along with a skull for added measure.
The exhibition will run through July 9.
Sustainable Design
"Fire and Fiber," an exhibition highlighting the innovative use of natural materials as artistic mediums, is at Todd Merrill Studio in Southampton.
As ceramics derive from the earth itself, primarily composed of clay and water, they are a renewable resource that offers environmental benefits. Art that uses organic cotton, paper, hemp, jute, and silk is ecologically friendly because the materials are renewable and biodegradable.
The show includes work by Vadim Kibardin, Annie Legault, Christopher Russell, Eric Speer, Gerri Spilka, and Joseph Cleghorn and Connor Moxam, who are partners in the design firm Chapter and Verse.
New at Kramoris
Works by Michael Albert and Roger Sichel are at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor through July 6.
For the past two decades, Mr. Albert has created collage works on various themes, using the cardboard packaging of iconic consumer brands. The exhibition includes limited edition giclee prints on canvas, silkscreens, and offset prints, as well as collages.
During the 1960s and '70s, Mr. Sichel's photographs of the counterculture and some of its cultural icons were published in many national magazines. His recent work includes digital prints of local sites such as the Sag Harbor Cinema and the Beach Hut at Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett.
A reception will happen on Saturday, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Personal Images
"A Brush With Time: Notes and Dust Motes," a show of more than 40 paintings by Ann Lombardo, is on view at the Water Mill Museum through July 2. A reception is set for Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Ms. Lombardo's paintings, most of them new, are born out of personal surroundings and circumstances, among them local landscapes, still-life paintings, a couple of childhood dresses, and the Water Mill Museum itself, as well as more abstract compositions.
Proceeds from sales will go toward the preservation of the museum.
Two at the Beach
Two five-day exhibitions organized by Nicole Iannello, an art consultant and curator, will take place at the Montauk Beach House in that hamlet, starting on Friday with "Mind-Body Dualism," a show of abstract photography by Ruvan Wijesooriya that will run through Tuesday. The works in the show feature the interplay of light and movement in the natural world. A reception will be held Friday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
"Abstract Syntax: A New Visual Vocabulary," which will open with a reception on Friday, June 23, from 5:30 to 8:30, will include paintings by David Stein that use familiar geometric symbols to form an abstract alphabet. The show will continue through June 26.
