An Evolving Exhibition
"Look Alive," an evolving studio, gallery, and social space, will open Friday at Guild Hall and continue through May 6. Organized by Ellie Duke, a writer, editor, and independent curator who lives in Springs, the exhibition will feature video, sound, sculpture, textiles, florals, and other mediums by a rotating selection of artists.
Participants include Harris Allen (March 29 to May 6), Kai Parcher-Charles (March 29 to April 1), Mamoun Nukumanu (April 5 to April 7), Kate Kavanaugh (April 12 to April 15), Kiva Motnyk (April 19 to April 21), and Jasmine Chamberlain (April 26 to April 29).
Painting Pluralism
"Loft Generation: Painting in New York, 1960s-80s," an exhibition featuring 14 artists working during what the gallery calls a "pluralist" period in the art world, is at Eric Firestone Gallery's NoHo outpost at 40 Great Jones Street through April 27.
The artists come from diverse backgrounds, but most were working in lofts in downtown Manhattan during an era when their sprawling, often raw spaces gradually went from being affordable, but illegal, to becoming prime, expensive real estate.
"Loft Generation" includes work by Ellsworth Ausby, Vincent Baldassano, Charles DuBack, Martha Edelheit, Susan Fortgang, Regina Granne, Mimi Gross, Evelyn Lopez de Guzman, George Mingo, Naoto Nakagawa, Joe Overstreet, Judith Blum Reddy, Miriam Schapiro, and Ned Smyth.
Honor for Yankowitz
The 2024 Hall of Fame benefit for the New York Foundation for the Arts, its most important fund-raiser, features a dinner, an awards ceremony celebrating art-world luminaries, and a silent auction.
Set for Wednesday at 6:30 at Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway, the evening will honor two former NYFA fellows, Nina Yankowitz, a visual artist, and Donna Uchizono, a choreographer, as well as Rockefeller Capital Management, for its arts patronage.
Ms. Yankowitz, who divides her time between Sag Harbor and New York City, has an installation currently on view in "Look at the Book" at the Southampton Arts Center, and had a solo show at Guild Hall in 2014.
Miller in Manhattan
"Home Sweet Home," a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Southampton's Paton Miller, is at Gambit Works Gallery in Manhattan through April 12.
Richly layered, Mr. Miller's work features dreamlike narratives of human figures, animals, landscapes, and objects, many inspired by his extensive travels. He creates his canvases by layering, scraping, and scratching the paint surface.
Surreal Renderings
"Pleasures of Duality," an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Eileen O'Kane Kornreich, a longtime East Hampton resident, is at the Opening Gallery in TriBeCa through April 14.
Ms. Kornreich's surreal canvases are populated with nudes, beasts, dolls, and butterflies, rendered with layers of oil paint along with scratches, lines, and mists of spray paint. The results are expanded interpretations of human relationships, says the gallery.
An artist's talk will happen on Friday, April 5, at 6 p.m.
