Fiber and Fischl
In conjunction with “Spin a Yarn,” Guild Hall’s exhibition of fiber-based works dating from ancient Andean times to the present, Estrellita Brodsky, the show’s curator, will be joined by Joanne Pillsbury, a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, for a conversation on Sunday at 2 p.m.
The discussion will focus on two extraordinary textile traditions separated by at least 500 years, and on some striking connections between artists of the ancient Andes and those of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Tickets are $25.
Also at Guild Hall, Eric Fischl, known for his large-scale, naturalistic images of middle-class American life, has created “A Day at the Beach,” an interactive 4-by-8-foot artwork consisting of vinyl on steel and magnets. The installation will open on Wednesday and remain through Sept. 1. While it is on view, visitors to the studio in the Boots Lamb Education Center can create their own “paintings” with either pre-cut magnetic figures or figures of their own creation.
New Initiative at P-K House
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will launch its contemporary art series tomorrow with “Little Images: Han Qin at the Pollock-Krasner House.” The series, says the center, features work that responds to the intimate nature of its venue.
“Little Images” explores the concept of “home” as both a refuge and a restraint. Han Qin, inspired by Lee Krasner’s small-scale paintings produced in the 1940s in her bedroom studio, explores how works created under spatial, emotional, and psychological stress might provide opportunities for beauty and self-discovery.
Ms. Qin is a visual artist, researcher, and art journalist based on Long Island and in Hangzhou, China. A reception will be held Saturday at 6 p.m., and the show will run through Oct. 31.
Inspired by Nature
“The Earth Remembers Everything,” an exhibition of fiber work by Sara Mejia Kriendler and ceramics by Lucy Loewenberg, is at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack through July 27.
Ms. Kriendler’s weavings, made from jute, sisal, fique, and gold wire, interlace strands of varying thicknesses to resemble tangled vines or exposed roots. The use of gold refers to Pre-Columbian art-making traditions, particularly gold filigree in jewelry.
Ms. Loewenberg’s work, built entirely from clay using a traditional coil-building technique, draws inspiration from numerology and the Kodama of Japanese folklore — spirits that inhabit ancient trees, bestowing animated life upon them.
Bouncing the Light
A show of work by Phyllis Skolnick Hirschberg (1925-2011) will open at Ashawagh Hall tomorrow, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m., and remain on view through Sunday.
Ms. Hirschberg, a scholarship student at the Art Students League as a young woman, graduated from The Cooper Union with honors. She began her exhibition career with shows in New York City, but moved to Amagansett in 1973 and won top honors in Guild Hall’s 1976 Artist Members show. She had a solo exhibition there the following year.
She was drawn here, like so many artists, by the light. “The bay and the ocean each have their own light,” she once said. “The two bodies of water here actually bounce the light.”
Posed Pigs
Heji Shin, a photographer whose 2023 “Reclining Nude” is in the “Are You Joking?” exhibition at The Church, will be at the Sag Harbor venue on Saturday at 3 p.m. for a conversation with Ebony L. Haynes, a writer and curator.
Ms. Shin’s photograph is from her “Big Nudes” series, which references Helmut Newton’s large-format series “Big Nude Women.” Instead of naked women, Ms. Shin created large color images of posed pigs. As The Church says, “Shin’s disquietingly anthropomorphic pigs force the viewer to ask themselves: Are pigs naked? Can they show us real emotions?”
The two women will discuss humor in Ms. Shin’s work and take questions afterward. Tickets are $20, $15 for members.
New at Nightingale
“Summer Vignettes,” an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Yuliya Lanina, will open at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will run through July 31.
Ms. Lanina’s practice includes
performance, animation, painting, film, animatronics, and installation. In “Summer Vignettes,” she shows paintings on paper and sculptures that explore themes of absurdity, trauma, and healing. By anthropomorphizing animals, plants, and objects, says the gallery, she “summons human empathy and emotions from her viewers.”
Five at Keyes
Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will open “Flock of Genius 2,” a show of work by Michael Butler, Helen Frankenthaler, Fay Lansner, Joan Mitchell, and Lucy Villeneuve, on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
Frankenthaler was among the second-generation Abstract Expressionist painters. In the climate of abstraction, Lansner concentrated on the human form. Mitchell is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists of the post-war era.
Mr. Butler is a self-described narrative folk artist. Ms. Villeneuve is inspired by the elements of Taoism and the art of non-doing.
The show will run through Aug. 18.
Paintings and Jewelry
New paintings by Jojo Anavim and jewelry by Yael Sonia are on view at the Stella Flame Gallery in Bridgehampton through July 30.
Mr. Anavim blurs the line between mass consumerism and fine art. His paintings, which oscillate between playful and subversive, are indebted to advertising and popular culture.
Ms. Sonia’s “Radiant Core Collection” features multidimensional gemstones in rounded, sensual shapes, finished by coming together in a singular form.
The gallery will also host Maison Irfé’s Hamptons Fragrance launch, in conjunction with a trunk show of jewelry by Wendy Brandes, tomorrow, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.
Creative Jewelry
The Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons and Bella Neyman, a jewelry curator and founder of NYC Jewelry Week, have organized “Immediate Connections,” a jewelry exhibition featuring the work of Birabiro, Oblik Atelier, and MPR Jewelry. It will be at the WACH gallery in Bridgehampton from next Thursday through July 21.
MPR uses nylon-coated stainless-steel cable wire, blending it with sterling silver, 14-karat gold fill, and semi-precious stones. Oblik Atelier folds and forms brass and sterling-silver wire, while Birabiro works with a variety of materials, including sterling silver and brass wire and semiprecious stones.
An opening reception will happen next Thursday at 5 p.m.
