Impressions of Winter
“Shades of Winter,” an exhibition that highlights the season’s muted palette and calm atmosphere, will open at the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton tomorrow with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The show features the artwork of Carolyn Conrad, Kathy Erteman, Eva Faye, Rhiannon Griego, and Kerry Sharkey-Miller.
The participating artists use a range of mediums, including photographs, textiles, paintings, and mixed-media works, to reflect on the themes of stillness, transformation, and the intricate patterns and details found in nature.
“The winter season offers an expressive range of soft and subtle colors that invite us to explore new ways of looking at the world,” says Wendy Van Deusen, WACH’s director.
The exhibition will run through March 30.
Curators’ Tour
Christina Strassfield and Paton Miller, the curators of “East End Collected 8” at the Southampton Arts Center, will lead a free tour of the exhibition on Sunday at 2 p.m. They will offer their insights on the show and share their experiences in the art world.
Guest artists will include John Philip Capello, Linda Capello, Gary Chiappa, David Corigliano, Carly Haffner, and Steven Zaluski.
Vibrant Color at Keyes
Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will open “Blue Sage, The Midwinter Exhibit” on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The show, which will run through March 22, features four artists who share an energetic use of color.
David Slivka, an Abstract Expressionist, drew inspiration from natural forms and phenomena. His landscapes were lighted by bold color and spare compositions.
Dwight Ripley was a botanical explorer, poet, patron, and linguist, but it was his drawings in colored pencil, shown at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, that were especially notable.
Although Maria Schon’s education and career developed in this country, the images in her landscapes are inspired by the rich visual experiences of her time spent in Venezuela, where her parents came from.
While in graduate school, Irina Alimanestianu began what she calls “a search for the visceral and primordial effects of shape, color, and space.” Her most recent work tends toward the ephemeral and philosophical.
Food and Labor
“Fresh Paint,” a series of single-artwork exhibitions organized by the Parrish Art Museum in collaboration with the Flag Art Foundation, features “Labor: Sound Bath,” a 2022 painting by Reggie Burrows Hodges, an artist from the Bay Area.
The painting, on view through June 9, is part of the artist’s “Labor” series, large-scale landscape paintings that celebrate harvesting food from the earth while at the same time pointing to the agriculture industry’s historic and contemporary reliance on exploitative labor. The show marks the first time the painting is on view to the public.
The show, which is accompanied by interpretive texts, was organized by Scout Hutchinson, associate curator of exhibitions at the Parrish, in collaboration with Jonathan Rider, director, and Caroline Cassidy, director of exhibitions, at the Flag Foundation.
