Celebrating Ellen Frank
“Enumeration of Wonders,” a celebration of the work of Ellen Frank (1946-2021), will be at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from tomorrow through Sunday, daily from 11 to 5.
Centered on an exhibition of paintings and works on paper from the 1980s through early 2018, the weekend will begin with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m.
Frank, an artist, scholar, and writer, founded Cities of Peace Illuminated in 2004, for which artists and students from 52 countries created a collection of monumental gold-illuminated paintings honoring world cities that had experienced conflict and trauma.
On Saturday at 2 p.m., a panel will discuss plans for a permanent home in Kosovo for the paintings. Participants are Christina Strassfield, the director of the Southampton Arts Center; Lee Skolnick, the architect for the project, and Luma Krasniqi and Luiza Thaqi via Zoom from Kosovo.
A reading of Frank’s poetry by the artist’s family and friends will happen on Sunday morning at 11.
Talk, Workshop at Guild Hall
Laurie Lambrecht, whose mural-size photographic installation, “Inspirations All,” is part of “A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists” at Guild Hall, will join Melanie Crader, the director of visual arts, for a conversation on Sunday at 2 p.m. The discussion will cover Ms. Lambrecht’s career and her ongoing project in the exhibition.
Creative Lab, Guild Hall’s series of workshops conducted by visiting, exhibiting, and resident artists, will be led by Darlene Charneco, whose exhibition “Field Mappings: Weaves and Touchmaps” is now on view. Set for Monday at 6 p.m., the workshop will culminate in the creation of a collective “learning library,” connecting the participants’ memories, relationships, and intentions.
Each program is $15, $10 for members.
Exhibition Tour and Dialogue
In conjunction with its current exhibition, “Space - Sight - Line,” on Friday at 6 p.m., The Sag Harbor Church’s After Hours series will begin with a tour of the exhibition by Sara Cochran, the venue’s chief curator.
After the tour she will be joined by Sarah Heinemann, an artist and senior lead draftswoman for the Sol LeWitt Studio, and James Miller, an artist and studio assistant of Jim Lambie. Ms. Heinemann installed LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing 528B” in the exhibition, and Mr. Miller installed Mr. Lambie’s “Zobop (Wild Poppy)” on The Church’s front steps. A question-and-answer session will follow the conversation.
Tickets are $20, $10 for members.
Painterly Tag Team
“I’ll Need a Pumpkin and Some Mice,” new works by KOBA, will open in Sag Harbor at both Sara Nightingale Gallery and Romany Kramoris Gallery with receptions on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Adriana Barone and Kryn Olson have been friends for many years and, while each has her own art practice, they have looked to each other for inspiration and critique. Last summer they decided to collaborate on a painting, both working on the same canvas at the same time. Thus began a series of works by KOBA, an arrangement of their initials.
Using spray paint and graffiti, KOBA creates bold flowers that reference pop culture, subway art, and botanicals.
The exhibitions will continue through April 30.
Paul Davis and Peter Solow
“Here in Sag Harbor we are often among giants in the arts,” says Julie Keyes, and Keyes Art in that village will open an exhibition of work by two of them, Paul Davis and Peter Solow, with a reception tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mr. Davis has created images and posters for magazines, record album covers, book jackets, and advertising, perhaps most notably for the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Other clients have included Lincoln Center, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and Sports Illustrated, to name just a few.
Mr. Solow, while recently in residence at The Church in Sag Harbor, developed an installation piece that incorporates traditional and digital techniques to recreate the experience of standing in a city square. John Russell, covering Mr. Solow’s work in The New York Times, stated, “Human destiny is Mr. Solow’s subject.”
The exhibition will run through May 10.
On Digital Art
“Looking Back/Looking Forward Through the Historical Lens of Digital Media,” a presentation and talk featuring Roz Dimon, a digital artist, and Gail Levin, an art historian, will happen at the Shelter Island Historical Society on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Ms. Dimon, who lives on the island, has been painting “with a digital brush ever since my canvases began to fill up with pixels in 1984.” While she started with four colors and an IBM computer at the School of Visual Arts, she now works with millions of colors on a MacBook Pro.
Ms. Dimon and Dr. Levin will engage in a lively discussion about digital art, which, loosely defined, is any artwork that draws on digital technology in its creative process.
Walter Weissman in Depth
“Born in Brooklyn,” a retrospective exhibition of photographs, sculpture, and drawings by Walter Weissman, will open in the Arts and Science Building at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn with a reception on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m.
Mr. Weissman, who has had an East End residence for more than 40 years, was the college’s “first art student,” according to a release, having studied there with Gregory Battcock, an influential artist and critic. He later studied with Robert Morris, a pioneering conceptual artist and sculptor, at Hunter College.
In addition to his photographs, 15 of which were shown at Guild Hall in 2016, the exhibition will include documentation of large-scale outdoor sculptures, environmental gallery installations, and smaller works that engage the surfaces of the room.
The exhibition will continue through May 22.
Seven on the Rise
“On the Come Up,” now at the Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk, features seven of what the gallery calls “rising stars in the East End arts community.” A reception will he held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The show spans a wide range of styles and mediums in work by Candace Ceslow, Jodi Gambino, Chris Lucore, Alana Rogers, Liz Slome, Izlin Weinberg, and Ryan Zwick. It will remain on view through April 23.
April Flowers in Sag
The next exhibition at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, set to open tomorrow and run through May 30, consists exclusively of works with flowers as the subject.
The participating artists are Linda K. Alpern, Adriana Barone, Muriel Hanson Falborn, Barbara Maslen, Kathleen McLaughlin, and Daria Whisnant. A reception will be held on Sunday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:30.
