Exploring the Grid
“The Grid,” an exhibition featuring artworks by Mary Ellen Bartley, Blair Seagram, Bastienne Schmidt, and Louise P. Sloane, is now open at the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton. A reception will take place Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
“ ‘The Grid’ invites us to reconsider structure not as limitation, but as possibility,” according to Wendy Van Deusen, WACH’s director. “It reminds us that what appears fixed can become fluid -- and that meaning often emerges in the spaces between.”
The works on view explore the grid not as a fixed form, but as an open idea: abstracted, fractured, and interpreted through line, form, and feeling. Rather than thinking outside the box, the artists in the show think around it, disrupting familiar patterns, redirecting the eye, and opening new ways of seeing.
Rock Icons
“Stripped,” an exhibition of work by Steve Joester, a British-born photographer and mixed-media artist, opens today at the White Room Gallery and will continue through May 11. A reception is set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mr. Joester, as an integral part of the rock-and-roll scene during the 1970s and ‘80s, built his reputation catching exciting moments in music history. Among the renowned musicians he captured in photographs are Bob Marley, Annie Lennox, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Nicks, Queen, Blondie, AC/DC, Sting, Grace Jones, and Pink Floyd.
The exhibition will also include short excerpts from a documentary by Jeff Oppenheim on Mr. Joester’s art, life, and career.
A Giant Group Show
The Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk will open “A Little Bit of Everything,” a show of work by 81 local artists, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Chris Lucore, an artist and the gallery’s proprietor, has said that the show was inspired by a Montauk toy store, now closed, from which the exhibition takes its name. “It’s a celebration of Montauk nostalgia,” he said, both personal and collective.
Each artist will have one piece on view. The exhibition will span a variety of themes and styles. With the advent of spring, Mr. Lucore said, “What better way to kick things off than with a giant group exhibition.”
It will run through May 13.
Monoprint Workshop
Andrea Cote, an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker, will lead a monoprint workshop at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. Monoprinting is a technique that involves the creation of a one-of-a-kind image by transferring ink from a plate to the paper, canvas, or other surface that will hold the work.
Space is limited, and advance registration is required. The cost, which includes a $5 materials fee, is $25 for adults, $19 for senior citizens, and $5 for members, resident benefits passholders, and students.
Eric Haze/Elaine de Kooning
In 1972, when Eric Haze was 10, he and his sister sat to have their portrait painted by Elaine de Kooning. During those sessions, de Kooning gave Mr. Haze paints and canvases and guided him in completing two abstract paintings.
Five years ago, long since having established himself as a leading street artist and graphic designer, Mr. Haze revisited those nascent works during a residency at the Elaine de Kooning House. The results of this residency were seven new paintings, reimaginings of those early works which seek to understand the essence of their gesture and de Kooning’s role in shaping it.
“Memory Image,” which opens next Thursday at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, presents these new works alongside the original two canvases painted with de Kooning, whose portrait of Haze will be exhibited with one of her own self-portraits. This exhibition is a joint production between the Elaine de Kooning House and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center.
