Grant for D'Amico Studio
The Mabel and Victor D’Amico Studio and Archive has been awarded a challenge grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. If a minimum of $5,000 is raised specifically for this challenge by December 31, the foundation will award a one-time matching grant in the same amount, up to $10,000.
Funds raised will go toward a feasibility study for the restoration of the D'Amico guest house on Lazy Point. The building, an early turn-of-the-20th-century artist's or fisherman's cottage that was part of Montauk before the Carl Fisher development, survived the 1938 Hurricane, after which it was towed by boat from Fort Pond to Lazy Point.
Those interested in supporting the project can email [email protected] for more information.
Portraits of Notables
Robert McCurdy, a painter known for his meticulously realistic portraits of famous subjects, will be at Guild Hall on Sunday afternoon at 2 to talk about his artistic process and intent. His subjects have included Barack Obama, Jane Goodall, the Dalai Lama, and Toni Morrison, among others.
Mr. McCurdy's portraits are of people, but not about them. As he has said, "I look for a sustainable moment. . . . It is why there is no movement, no expression or gesture. . . . The image is reported rather than interpreted.”
The artist, who lives in New York, earned an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and received a fellowship from Yale University.
Printing Workshop
The Church in Sag Harbor has opened registration for An Introduction to Linoleum Block Printing, which will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Often characterized by flat colors and bold graphic shapes, block printing has long been an affordable and approachable medium for creating multiple prints. From a block of linoleum, an image is created by carving away areas of negative space, leaving only the final design. The block can then be rolled with ink and printed, using a press or by hand.
The workshop will be led by Robynn Smith, an artist and printmaker. A materials kit with carving tools, printmaking paper, and two linoleum blocks will be included in the cost of admission. No additional materials are required, and no prior experience is necessary.
The cost is $200; class size will be limited to 10.
New at the White Room
"Cryptic," an exhibition of work by Michael Lotenero and Claire Florence, is at the White Room Gallery in East Hampton through Nov. 24, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Mr. Lotenero's large mixed-media paintings combine elements of figuration with stylized, even menacing, faces, which might reflect his childhood interest in action paintings. In "King of Columbus Circle," for example, behind one of those eerie faces, whose outline fills the canvas, is a realistic New York cityscape.
Ms. Florence uses A.I. as a tool to generate patterns that cover not only posing yoga instructors but the spaces they inhabit. Some of her hand-sculpted jewelry will also be on display.
Mica Marder at Ashawagh
"Grasp Root," a solo exhibition of work by Mica Marder, will be at Ashawagh Hall from Friday through Sunday, with a reception Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. Organized by Haim Mizrahi, the show includes 50 abstract acrylic paintings created within the past eight months, some on plywood surfaces, some on canvas.
The entire exhibition will move on Monday to LTV Studios in Wainscott, where it will be on view through Nov. 17.
