A Versatile Photographer
Next up in The Church’s Insight Sunday series is John Pinderhughes, a photographer known for both his commercial and fine-art photographs. He will be at the Sag Harbor venue on Sunday at noon to share the story behind a portrait of his beloved grandmother, taken on her first trip to Africa.
Mr. Pinderhughes, who divides his time between New York City and Sag Harbor, has worked as a commercial photographer for the past 50 years, for such clients as Black Enterprise, Family Circle, Essence, Scientific American, and Venture.
He has exhibited his fine-art photographs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution, and has been an adjunct professor of photography at New York University.
Tickets are $10, free for members with required registration.
Art and Politics in Springs
“What If? Art and Politics,” a group show organized by Lance Corey, will open Friday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs and continue through Monday. The participating artists are Rani Carson, Christine Corey, Joel Lefkowitz, Setha Low, Joyce Raimondo, Tonito Valderrama, and Mr. Corey.
The show originated when Mr. Corey decided to run for Congress in the First Congressional District. When John Avlon entered the race, Mr. Corey withdrew in order to assist him.
“Art and politics are so intertwined as to be inescapably linked, like breathing and living,” said Mr. Corey in an email. “We are attempting to breathe some fresh air into the body politic.”
A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Matthew Rotando, a poet and English professor at Nassau Community College, will read from his work at 7. Gallery hours are noon to 6.
Keyes Art in TriBeCa
Keyes Art in Sag Harbor opens Hardware Gallery, an outpost at 154 Chambers Street in TriBeCa, Thursday, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Titled “Rolling Thunder,” the inaugural show includes work by 16 artists, among them Rozeal, Walter Bobbie, Nathan Slate Joseph, Claude Lawrence, Leslee Stradford, Fay Lansner, Lucy Villeneuve, Judith Henriques-Adams, and Paul Davis.
Something for Everyone
“What’s Not to Love,” a large group exhibition, will open at the White Room Gallery in East Hampton on Friday and run through March 9, with a reception set for Feb. 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. “We know everyone has their own taste, and this exhibit respects the diversity of styles that entice,” says the gallery. The show includes painting, photography, mixed-media, and sculpture.
Exhibiting artists include Kasia G, Cedric Sequerra, Serge Strosberg, Chad Knight, Christine Matthai, Rock Therrien, Paul Fuentes, Sabeena Jindal, Bob Tabor, Sylvie Perrin, Fringe, John Joseph Hanright, and John Francis Gallagher.
Self-Portraits at Grenning
The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor will open “Self-Care,” an exhibition of recent self-portraits and artist studio views, on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. On Sunday morning from 11 to 1, Edwina Lucas and Maryann Lucas, both of whom are exhibiting studio interiors and exteriors, will open their Noyac studio to visitors.
“A self-portrait is a map of your intimate world, a statement of intentions, a testimony about who you are and how you show yourself,” says the gallery. Eighteen gallery artists are providing such testimony.
The exhibition will continue through Feb. 23.
Career Survey at Firestone
“Susan Fortgang: The Spaces in Between” has opened at the Eric Firestone Gallery in NoHo and will remain on view through March 1. The artist’s first solo exhibition, this traces the development of her work over almost six decades.
Ms. Fortgang earned B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees at Yale, where she studied with Jack Tworkov and Al Held, before moving to her loft in SoHo in the early ‘70s. Her early abstract paintings were composed of biomorphic shapes and a variety of energetic art-making techniques.
Disillusioned with the performative approach of Abstract Expressionism, by the mid-’70s she had turned to compositional systems, and, later in that decade, to the grid, eliminating all elements of action painting from her work. Her paintings of the 2000s have black grounds overlaid with complex patterns.
