Springs Art and History
The fourth annual Springs Historical Society’s “Art and Archives” exhibition, which benefits the Springs Community Library, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from tomorrow through Sunday.
Organized by Teri Kennedy, this year’s exhibition is inspired by James Brooks’s 1973 Fisherman’s Fair poster from the historical society’s archival collection. Featuring over 50 contemporary Springs artists, the show includes painting, ceramics, jewelry, and glassworks.
In a nod to Brooks and Charlotte Park, his wife, the exhibition will showcase work by four artist couples: Rosalind Brenner and Michael Cardacino, Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, Virva Hinnemo and George Negroponte, and Burt and Wendy Van Deusen. Archival works highlighting the fragile ecosystem of Accabonac Harbor will be exhibited alongside the artworks.
A members-only reception will happen tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m.; a public reception is set for Saturday from 5 to 7. A curator’s forum featuring presentations from Christina Strassfield, executive director of the Southampton Arts Center, Ms. Zerner, and Mr. Farber will take place on Sunday from 1 to 3.
Gallery hours are tomorrow, 1 to 5; Saturday, 11 to 7, and Sunday, 11 to 3.
Sculpture on the Rock
The Church in Sag Harbor has organized an excursion to Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island to see its inaugural show, “Sculpture at Sylvester Manor,” on Saturday, the day before it closes. Tom Cugliani, the show’s curator, will lead a 90-minute tour reserved for Church participants.
The show, which spans a small portion of the woodlands and gardens of the former plantation, features work by 25 local artists. While some address the former slaveholding plantation’s past, others respond to the natural landscape.
Travelers have been asked to meet on the Shelter Island side of the ferry crossing at 10 a.m., or at Sylvester Manor at 10:15. The tour will start at 10:30. Tickets are $20 and do not include ferry transportation. Anyone unable to secure transportation can email [email protected].
London and its Artists
“Across the Pond: Contemporary Painting in London” will open tomorrow at the Eric Firestone Gallery at 40 Great Jones Street in NoHo, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
Organized by Emma Fineman in collaboration with the gallery, the exhibition features work by 11 artists linked by an interest in unearthing and re-investigating histories, visually realized through painting processes involving scraping back, unveiling, and layering.
“Living and working in London is an act of daily reckoning with its long and layered histories and rapidly modernizing future,” says Ms. Fineman. Traces of the past, formally and metaphorically, are present in the works on view.
The show will continue through Oct. 19.
Two at Halsey McKay
Two exhibitions, “Layo Bright: Heartwood” and “Matthew Kirk: Digging a Hole Into the Sun,” are at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through Oct. 15.
For the past few years, Ms. Bright has explored nature, feminism, migration, and Nigerian culture and traditions through the medium of glass. The show includes new glass and bronze sculptures, and a site-specific hand-painted “wall skin.”
Mr. Kirk uses his signature mark-making and glyphic imagery to reflect his Navajo heritage and identity in new shaped paintings and sculpture that expand conventional painting beyond the standard rectilinear canvas.
The End of Summer
“Season Finale!”, a group art show, opens today at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and will run through Sept. 26. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
The exhibition includes work by Christopher Engel, Adriana Barone, Michael Albert, Roger Sichel, Casey Chalem Anderson, Thomas Condon, Katherine Milliken, Muriel Hanson Falborn, Gayle Tudisco, Barbara Groot, Barbara Hadden, Quincy Egginton, Lauren Matzen, Lutha Leahy-Miller, and Ghilia Lipman-Wulf.
