Sixteen at Clinton
"On and Off the Wall," an exhibition of work by 16 East End artists organized by Folioeast, will open at Clinton Academy in East Hampton on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The show will include paintings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, collage, and knit art.
Participating artists are Robin Giannis, Jonathan Nash Glynn, Melinda Hackett, Janet Jennings, Dennis Leri, Jaime Lopez, Jane Martin, Christine Matthai, Beth O’Donnell, David Slivka, Janice Stanton, Aurelio Torres, Rosario Varela, Jeff Lion Weinstock, Amy Wickersham, and Nancy Winarick.
Open Thursdays through Mondays from noon to 5 or by appointment by email to [email protected], the show will run through Oct. 1.
Barge Docks in Springs
In 1955, Victor D'Amico, the education director at the Museum of Modern Art and founder of the Art Barge on Napeague, rented Ashawagh Hall in Springs for a "summer vacation painting experience." He and his students visited the studios of artists of the region and painted on location in the surrounding landscapes and farms. An exhibition was held at summer's end.
Ashawagh Hall will be the site of an Art Barge exhibition that will open Friday and continue through Wednesday. The show includes artworks from the Barge's collection, historic photographs and documentation, and artwork by students, trustees, staff, and instructors.
A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Quartz and Bone
"Hydra, Teeth of Quartz," a solo show of paintings by Martha Tuttle, and "Bone Pedals," a two-man exhibition of work by Joseph Hart and Johannes VanDerBeek, are at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through Oct. 16.
Ms. Tuttle's paintings are informed by themes of rebirth, re-use, and regeneration. For example, in the four paintings titled "Accumulations (1-4)," what at first looks like a geometric border containing two diagonal marks is actually the artwork's structural support, one element of which has been charred.
Mr. Hart's works on paper and Mr. VanDerBeek's sculptures extrapolate flora and fauna from the natural world into formal explorations of line, shape, and color. During their creation for the exhibition, each artist wrote about the other's work.
Artists Alliance Tour
The Artists Alliance of East Hampton will hold its once-a-year studio tour featuring the studios, homes and gardens of South Fork artists. The free event provides an opportunity to meet and observe artists in their working environment. Names and addresses of participants can be viewed and downloaded here.
"Laying in" the Garden
Barbara Thomas will conduct a three-session painting workshop at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton on consecutive Thursday mornings from 10 to noon, starting next Thursday.
Open to all levels of experience, the classes will focus on garden and landscape painting principles, including perspective, creating light and shade, "laying in" a painting, and how to create such effects as cumulus clouds and lily pads in the pond.
The cost is $225, $200 for Bridge Garden members; prepaid non-refundable reservations are required. Registration is on the Peconic Land Trust website's calendar page.
Narrative Folk Art
An exhibition of paintings by Michael Butler, a self-described "narrative folk artist" who has been painting since the 1970s, will open Friday at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor and continue through Sept. 27.
Mr. Butler, who lives in Sag Harbor, draws on mythology, religion, dreams, stories he has heard, and also tries to document historical events for which depictions don't exist.
A reception will be held Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Personal and Political
"The Daily Mirror," a show of recent sculpture by Stephen Laub, will open Friday at Essex Flowers on the Lower East Side with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will remain on view through Oct. 1.
A multidisciplinary artist based in Water Mill, Mr. Laub will show objects that refer to the personal, political, and social concerns that inform his practice. Among them, says the gallery, are three series that use the forms of traditional men's hats as tropes for masculine identity, social status, and categorization.
A series of wooden wall sculptures are based on paper documents that have had historical impact, such as documents from the Dreyfus Affair trials or Nazi Germany.
Semmel in Chelsea
"Against the Wall," a show of new paintings by Joan Semmel, is opening Thursday at Alexander Gray Associates in Chelsea, and will continue through Oct. 21. The works confirm her ongoing determination to offer an alternative to what Laura Mulvey, a feminist critic, called "the male gaze."
Her new paintings capture her nude body in continual movement, sometimes including her own shadow, at other times layering multiple images of her body to evoke the sensation of the passage of time. Her gestural technique and intensely saturated palette suggest the artist's early training as an Abstract Expressionist.
Jane Wilson Landscapes
DC Moore Gallery in Manhattan opens "Jane Wilson: Atmospheres," an exhibition of large landscapes and intimate watercolors from 1987 to 2011, Thursday, with a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Wilson, who divided her time between Water Mill and the city, is known for her abstract landscapes that depict the meeting of sky, land, and sea. In the early 1980s, she moved to a more personal and expressive rendition of landscapes. The works in the exhibition "envelop the viewer in the effects of heavy air, oncoming storms, light reaching beyond clouds, and stillness."
The show will run through Oct. 7.
Stephen Loschen Paintings
"The Shapes I'm In," an exhibition of 17 paintings by Stephen Loschen, is at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton through Sept. 30. Mr. Loschen, who is also known for his hand-painted sculpture made from steel and found objects, has said, "I am fascinated by shape, form, and negative and positive space that is released by my subconscious mind onto the canvas."
Art Group in Water Mill
The Water Mill Museum's "Summer Finale 2023" features the ninth iteration of paintings by members of the 30-Squared Art Group, who joined forces in 2015 to encourage each other to create art every day for 30 days. Beginning Thursday through Sept. 17, with a reception set for Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m., the exhibition includes a variety of work by 24 East End artists.
Ode to Iceland
"Icelandic Poetry," a show of photographs by Ron Buchter and Keith A. Manning, will open Tuesday at the Southampton Cultural Center and continue through Oct. 1. Both artists took dramatic photographs in Iceland in 2022.
A reception will be held on Sept. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m.
