Paintings and Fiber Art
Two new exhibitions, one devoted to faux-naif paintings and the other to fiber arts, will open Sunday at Guild Hall.
Edward (Ted) Carey (1932-1985) moved from Pennsylvania to New York City in 1955, where he pursued a career in graphic design and developed a close friendship with Andy Warhol. While living between New York and East Hampton in the 1970s and ‘80s, he produced a small body of work informed by his interest in folk art.
“Ted Carey: Queer as Folk,” organized by Matthew Nichols, an art historian, features Carey’s faux-naif paintings that chronicled his life and relationships and represented facets of queer culture. It is the first survey of his work since 1985, when an East Hampton gallery held a memorial show of his paintings after the artist’s death from AIDS.
“Spin a Yarn” considers the close relationship between textiles and language, especially the use of fiber arts as storytelling devices from ancient Andean times to the present. It includes work by more than 25 international artists and features tapestries, embroideries, quilts, Vodou flags, and other fiber-based works.
Curated by Estrellita Brodsky, the founder and director of Another Space in Chelsea, the show illuminates the historical importance of textiles as tools for communication as well as their increasing use in contemporary art to reflect on social, political, and environmental issues.
Both shows will remain on view through July 15.
D’Amico Exhibitions
The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, comprised of the Art Barge and the D’Amico Studio and Archive, will open two exhibitions at its respective locations on Sunday, from 2 to 6 p.m.
The D’Amico House show, “The Sea, Sky, and Sculpture: An Integration of Art, Architecture, and Landscape,” features outdoor sculpture in the property’s garden, at 128 Shore Road, Amagansett. Organized by Sally Richardson, it includes work by Pino Daddi, Sabra Moon Elliot, Saskia Friedrich, Phyllis Baker Hammond, Laurie Lambrecht, John Pomianowski, Chuck Manion, Mica Marder, Diane Mayo, James Salaiz, Jonathan Shafer, and Ms. Richardson.
The Art Barge, 110 Napeague Road in Amagansett, is showing “North/South/East/West,” a photographic exhibition of the 61 artists’ homes and studios that belong to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program.
The exhibitions will run through Sept. 22.
Connie Fox at Tripoli
"Connie Fox: Understanding," an exhibition that includes works spanning over 50 years of the artist's career, will open Saturday at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., and continue through June 18.
With the assistance of Levin Chaskey, the artist's grandson, the gallery is featuring a selection of paintings intended to further illuminate Fox's complexities, with aid from publications and studio visits facilitated by Mr. Chaskey.
While Fox, who died in 2023, painted intuitively, seeking visual solutions to inquiries often pursued by Abstract Expressionists, she was not afraid of occasional moments of representation or the semiotics of landscape, says the gallery. She continued painting through her last days, with paintings from 2022 joining the collection of Lynda Benglis, another celebrated artist.
Call for Artwork
The Springs Mystery Art Sale, which supports the Springs School, has issued a call for artwork. Artists can submit one to three works, each measuring 5 by 7 or 7 by 5 inches, to the S&S Corner Shop, 11 Fort Pond Boulevard, by Wednesday. Works must be thin and lightweight for display purposes, and without hanging hardware or frames. Each should have the artist’s name and contact information on the back.
The sale will happen June 7 and 8.
Pop Double Play
“On the Edge,” an exhibition featuring work by Fringe, a renowned South African Pop artist, and Seek One, a self-described contemporary street artist, will open Tuesday at the White Room Gallery in East Hampton and continue through June 16. A reception will take place May 25 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Fringe’s large-scale paintings bring together cartoon characters, symbols, and slogans; many fanciful and fun, some, like a deranged-looking Mickey Mouse, more ominous.
Seek One’s work ranges from portraits, many of pop icons like Elvin Presley and Marilyn Monroe, to collages, to abstract paintings created on wood panels or on paper.
Both artists, according to the gallery, aim “to be on the edge.”
Three Dimensions
“Sculpture + Woodwork,” a show of work by nine artists from the East End, will open today at the Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk and run through June 4. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The show includes a diverse array of materials and aesthetic choices. Some incorporate found and natural materials, while others are meticulously crafted.
The participating artists are Jerelyn Hanrahan, Chris Kelly, Stephen Loschen, Johnny Papa, Sally Richardson, Jonathan Shlafer, Nick Tarr, Aurelio Torres, and Hans Van de Bovenkamp.
Two Painters
“Carmody | Persson,” a two-person show, will open on Saturday at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m., and remain on view through June 9.
Emily Persson works primarily with a palette knife, a tool that aids in creating the long depth of field visible in her landscapes, with objects in the foreground physically popping off the canvas and background features melting away.
Kelly Carmody spent a month alone on Shelter Island last October, capturing the changing of the seasons and the light at different times of day. She concocted her own traditional gesso, made of marble dust, pigment, and rabbit glue for this new series, creating a surface that produces an absorbent ground.
Deborah Buck in Manhattan
“Witches Bridge,” Deborah Buck’s first solo exhibition at the Jennifer Baahng Gallery in Manhattan, is opening today with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will remain on view through June 29.
Ms. Buck, who divides her time between Sagaponack and Manhattan, has referred to her paintings as “nature on steroids.” Her recent works, says the gallery, depict intertwined masses that bulge and fold, ignoring illusion, perspective, or scale and flattening the hierarchical relationship between its elements.
Scott Bluedorn Reset
“Force Majeure,” a solo show of work by Scott Bluedorn originally set to open on May 10 at Clinton Academy in East Hampton, has been rescheduled. It will open there with a reception on Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. and continue through June 5.
