Springs Artists’ Posters
“Signs of Springs: The Springs Artists’ Exhibition Posters” is on view at Clinton Academy in East Hampton through Feb. 28. A reception will take place Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.
The Springs Improvement Society held its first annual “Artists of the Springs” invitational exhibition in 1968 on the grounds of Ashawagh Hall, coinciding with the Fisherman’s Fair. Held to raise money for local scholarships and the construction of a gallery wing, it secured works from “just about every well-known artist in Springs,” The Star reported at the time.
That first show was inspired by the decades-long relationship between the society and the artists who moved to the area in the mid-1940s and ‘50s, among them Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Willem de Kooning, and John Little.
Organized by Stacy Myers, director of education at the East Hampton Historical Society, and Aimee Lusty of the improvement society, the posters reflect the range of artists, printing processes, and styles from 1971 to 2024 while highlighting the contribution of women artists to the Springs community.
Ralph Gibson at the Parrish
A tour of the Parrish Art Museum’s current show, “Ralph Gibson — Nature: Object,” with Mr. Gibson and Corinne Erni, the museum’s chief curator, will take place Friday afternoon at 3.
The exhibition, on view through April 27, draws from a series of photographs by the artist based on the relationship between shapes found in nature and human constructs. It posits that nature is visually evident in all genres of industrial design, focusing on the relationship among perspective, color, and proportion.
The 35mm Leica format and optical glass are an essential component of the work; the dimensions of the frames are based on the ancient Greeks’ Golden Mean.
Mr. Gibson’s photographs are included in more than 180 museum collections around the world and have appeared in hundreds of solo shows.
Tickets are $30, $24 for senior citizens, $12 for members’ guests, $10 for resident benefits passholders, and free for members, students, and children.
Art for a Cause
Philippe Cheng, an artist and fine-art photographer based in Bridgehampton, is creating a series of photographic prints of butterflies on sandpaper specifically to benefit Hamptons Community Outreach. The organization, which aims to end poverty on the East End and has repaired 68 homes since 2021, feeds 400 families on a weekly basis, maintains multiple child-centered programs, and runs Hamptons Art Camp for children in need.
Why butterflies? In many cultures, explains the Bridgehampton-based nonprofit, butterflies are revered as symbols of transformation, joy, possibility, and freedom, and Hamptons Outreach’s goal is to bring such change to the communities it serves.
The butterfly prints are framed and available in two sizes: 9 by 11 inches, for $1,500, and 11 by 14 inches for $3,000. Other sizes are available on request. One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit Hampton Community Outreach.
Group Show at Halsey McKay
Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton has opened its winter group show, “Smaller Objects Larger Pictures,” which features photography, textile, painting, and sculpture across a wide range of materials.
Participating artists are Timothy Bergstrom, Colby Bird, Layo Bright, Graham Collins, Anne-Lise Coste, David Kennedy Cutler, Christopher Robin Duncan, L’Merchie Frazier, Genevieve Goffman, Elias Hansen, Matthew Kirk, Megan Reed, Mariah Robertson, Christoph Rossner, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Johannes VanDerBeek, Annette Werhahn, Will Yackulic, and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang.
