Kathryn Szoka
At Rogers Memorial
Kathryn Szoka’s photographic essay “Life Along the Turnpike: Bridgehampton Today” will be on view in the Rogers Memorial Library’s Morris Meeting Room in Southampton beginning Monday. It will be on view through Feb. 28.
The exhibit, which celebrates life in the primarily African-American neighborhood along the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, includes informal portraits taken in homes, schools, and churches. The show debuted at the Bridgehampton Historical Society last year in conjunction with photos, paintings, and artifacts from the toll-road era on the South Fork.
Ms. Szoka is a co-owner of Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor. Her works are shown regularly on the East End and in New York City.
The library will show Dominick Lamontanaro’s pastel images in the Madelle Hegeler Semerjian gallery throughout January. A reception will be held on Jan. 9 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Mosquito Hawk
Gallery Benefit
The Mosquito Hawk Gallery on Shelter Island will take selected works by Gabriela Trueba to Marfa NYC, a restaurant and performance space at 101 East Second Street in Manhattan, for a benefit for Eric Pettigrew and his volunteer initiative called Homeopathy for Health in Africa.
The benefit, on Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m., will help cover the costs of Mr. Pettigrew’s mission to Tanzania, where he will be working to establish clinics for the homeopathic treatment of AIDS patients.
Ms. Trueba’s portraits focus on the complexity of unconventional beauty and are often strange and haunting.
Blank Canvases
Ready for Art
The Ross School in East Hampton and Applied Arts in Amagansett are offering a slate of new art classes for the new year.
Roisin Bateman’s paintings are influenced by the landscapes of eastern Long Island and the west of Ireland, where she grew up, and emphasize the intervals between dramatic shifts in weather, “the settling down after the swirl.” She will be teaching Art for the Beginner at Ross. Students will be guided through a variety of projects in charcoal drawing, printmaking, acrylic painting, and collage. The two-hour class starts on Saturday at 10 a.m. and runs through Feb. 6.
From the Shinnecock Tribe, Courtney Leonard, who has shown her work widely and has taught ceramics on the South Fork, will lead an open studio clay class at Ross for participants to “experiment in new areas using a variety of hand-building techniques and methods.” The class starts Wednesday and runs through Feb. 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The cost is $210.
David Slater, a Sag Harbor artist and recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in painting, has worked as an artist for more than 50 years. He will teach Collage and Assemblage: An Exploration and History. Its first session is on Tuesday, and it will continue through Feb. 9, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The class will cover the history of placing objects near one another to make pictures, while students make their own two and three-dimensional works. The cost is $180.
Open to all levels, Susan Ecker’s painting and drawing class at the Ross School will focus on key principles of drawing and painting and the discovery of new techniques, all in a “relaxed studio environment.” Ms. Ecker’s work was in the show “Party of Eight” at Ashawagh Hall in Springs in May. The class begins Wednesday from 6 to 8:15 p.m. and runs through Feb. 3. The cost is $150.
The doors are open at Applied Arts in Amagansett on Mondays from 6 to 9 p.m. for open studio figure drawing, and on Thursdays at the same time for open studio darkroom. In addition, the school’s rotating schedule of classes will start this week with digital photography, which meets on Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon. The four-session class costs $285 and is a primer for photographers who are new to the digital world. Downloading photos, exploring image manipulation with programs like iPhoto, and saving and archiving photos will be demonstrated.
A practical drawing class will “provide a foundation of basic skills including line, proportion, and value” for novices, and more advanced concepts for seasoned artists, starting Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The $260 cost covers four sessions.
“The Art of Screen Printing” begins Tuesday for those who have always wanted to design their own T-shirts. The four-week, 6 to 8 p.m. class will cover design, burning the design onto a screen, and silk-screening it onto material. All skill levels will be welcomed. The cost is $260.
An introduction to watercolor at Applied Arts will meet next Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. The class will work with a still life and focus on composition, form, lighting, texture, and technique. The cost for four weeks is $260. Also starting next Thursday will be beginning ceramics on the wheel at 9 a.m. and advanced ceramics on the wheel at 1 p.m. The four-session, three-hour classes cost $260 and $285 (which includes a one-hour glazing session).