By Lucy Bamman and Lacy Davisson Doyle
What to see in the Hamptons…
Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet
Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Watermill
July 21 – October 27, 2013
IMG: Alfonso Ossorio at the Creeks
Co-organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Parrish Art Museum, this exhibition reveals a rare cross-cultural artistic dialogue among three prominent artists—American painter Jackson Pollock; Filipino-American artist and patron of European and American postwar art Alfonso Ossorio; and French painter Jean Dubuffet. Approximately 50 paintings and works on paper, focusing on the period from 1948 to 1952 highlight visual affinities among the three artists at pivotal moments in their careers.
Chuck Close
Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton
August 10 – October 14, 2013
IMG: Chuck Close, Cindy (smile), 2013
In the Guild Hall’s showcase exhibition of the summer season, the East Hampton museum will present recent paintings, prints and tapestries by Chuck Close. Close is noted for his highly inventive techniques used to paint the human face, aiming to paint people the way a camera would see them. The artist has been a part-time resident of the East End for more than 40 years.
Alice Aycock: New Works on Paper
The Drawing Room, 66 Newtown Lane, East Hampton
July 12 – August 12, 2013
IMG: Alice Aycock, Study for “The Spinning Tops”
At The Drawing Room in East Hampton, an exhibit of artist Alice Aycock’s new work features selected drawings and prints by the renowned sculptor whose works have long captivated audiences worldwide. Known for her large-scale installations, public art projects and outdoor sculptures, the drawings in this exhibit reveal the spirit of exploration that is the driving force in her creative process.
Joseph Hart, Angel Error
Halsey McKay, 79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton
August 3-21
Also on view in East Hampton is artist Joseph Hart’s first solo exhibition at the Halsey McKay Gallery, which includes a suite of new works on paper alongside a series of oil paintings on canvas. Utilizing drawing, painting and cut-paper collage, Hart’s work is structured around cursory gestures: errant dashes, quick lines, scrawls, swoops and zigzags. This set of preliminary and exploratory maneuvers are then built upon, reconfigured or impulsively edited out until a composition begins to emerge.
Tara Geer, Carrying Silence
Glenn Horowitz, 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton
Tara Geer, Airfold Quartet, 2010
A short walk down Newtown, you will find drawings by artist Tara Geer on display at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. The works on view are a series of recent charcoal, pastel, pencil, and chalk drawings, ranging from wall-sized flower “portraits” to sketchbook-scale, intricate compositions. They balance bold explanatory line with frenetic erasure or scrawl, and be they spindly or sure, dissolved or obtuse, Tara’s marks are inarguably alive.
Bill Armstrong, Buddha & Mandala
Sara Nightingale Gallery, 688 Montauk Highway, Watermill
August 3 – September 3, 2013
IMG: Bill Armstrong, Buddha #711
Photographs by artist Bill Armstrong are on display this month at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Watermill. Part of a larger Infinity series, Armstrong’s Buddha photographs are accomplished by capturing preexisting images extremely out of focus with the camera’s focusing ring set at infinity. The appropriation of these images and their manipulation transforms the originals and give them a new meaning in a new context.
Yolanda Sanchez, Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 2418 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton
August 23 – September 15, 2013
IMG: Yolanda Sanchez, Looking East, 2012
In Bridgehampton, a joyful exhibition of Yolanda Sanchez’ work is showing at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts. The artist draws inspiration from nature, but her work does not attempt to recreate the physical world. Sanchez describes her process as “translating and projecting thoughts, emotions and sensations, into a moment of meeting, working with light, color and mark and the materiality of the paint itself. I am holding a space for the viewer – to enter, to be there, to have a moment of contemplation, and to finish the work, as it were.”
Eric Ernst, Looking in the Rear View Mirror
Peter Marcelle Gallery, 2411 Main Street, Bridgehampton
July 27 – August 11, 2013
IMG: Eric Ernst, Rhythmic Imprisonment
On view at the Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton is an exhibition featuring works by East End artist Eric Ernst from 1995 to the present. Ernst incorporates coloration and rhythmic techniques by highlighting the geometric purity of the Russian avant-garde and the later Bauhaus artists. He was also influenced by his father, Jimmy Ernst’s, approach to crisp, linear compositional structure. Structurally arranging the works to be viewed as small scale architectonic spaces, Ernst recently has begun incorporating elements of representational imagery into his constructions. These serve to create an interaction of forms, shapes, and colors that, mixed with musical and harmonic elements, conjure a more immediate narrative and strive to transcend the limits of pure geometric abstraction.
Hans Hofmann
Mark Borghi Fine Arts, 2426 Main St Bridgehampton
July 4 – July 30, 2013
IMG: Hans Hofmann, Untitled, 1945
Wander down Main Street in Bridgehampton to an exhibition of works by Hans Hofmann on view at Mark Borghi Fine Arts. Hofmann is one of the most important figures of postwar American art. Celebrated for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, and renowned as an influential teacher for generations of artists—first in his native Germany, then in New York and Provincetown—Hofmann played a pivotal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism.