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The Art Scene: 03.16.17

The Art Scene: 03.16.17

Steve Miller's "Snakes on Skates" skateboard series will be featured in the windows of Bloomingdale's in New York City through April 2.
Steve Miller's "Snakes on Skates" skateboard series will be featured in the windows of Bloomingdale's in New York City through April 2.
Local Art News
By
Mark Segal

Artists Alliance at Ashawagh

The Artists Alliance of East Hampton will hold its first members show of 2017 from Saturday through March 26 at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekdays from 11 to 5. Some 50 artists will show abstract and representational sculpture, painting, photography, and works on paper.

For this exhibition, the alliance has partnered with the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. Fifteen percent of all sales will be donated to ARF, and its adoption van will be at Ashawagh Hall on Saturday afternoon between 4 and 5 p.m. An opening reception will follow, from 5:30 to 7:30.

In addition, the Springs Library, in association with the Springs Historical Society, will present a program about the history of the hamlet on March 24 at 7 p.m.

 

Perle Fine in Chelsea

An exhibition of paintings by Perle Fine, who lived in Springs from the 1950s until her death in 1988, will be held at Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, from today through April 15, with a reception set for tonight from 6 to 8. The work is from her “Prescience” series of the early 1950s.

Born in 1905, Fine moved from Boston to New York City while still in her teens; by the 1930s, committed to abstraction, she joined the circle of Hans Hofmann and his art school. Despite some of the barriers that limited the opportunities for women in the male-dominated milieu of Abstract Expressionism, she had her first solo show at the Willard Gallery in New York in 1945. She was one of the first women admitted to the Club, the Eighth Street gathering place of the New York School.

 

Four at Folioeast

Folioeast will open its fifth show at Malia Mills in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will continue through March 26 and include photographs by Jane Martin, paintings by Michele D’Ermo, ceramic sculptures by Donna Green, and works on paper by Vivian Polak. According to Coco Myers, the founder of Folioeast, “There is a strong nature thread in the show, though quite abstracted in some of the pieces.”

 

Nautical Themes in Greenport

“Tide + AL,” an exhibition featuring the nautical-inspired artwork of Scott Bluedorn and Cindy Pease Roe, will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the art gallery of the Greenport Harbor Brewing Company on Carpenter Street in Greenport.

Mr. Bluedorn, who lives in East Hampton, works in a variety of mediums, including painting, collage, sculpture, drawing, and furniture. His paintings and drawings are marked by extreme detail and imaginative representations of the environment of the East End.

A Greenport resident, Ms. Roe is inspired by the harbors and beaches of the North Fork. Her paintings range from the peaceful solitude of seaside villages to the surreal wonder conjured by the ocean. Her sculptures are fashioned from the flotsam washed ashore.

The show will remain on view until May.

 

New East Hampton Gallery

The Rental Gallery, previously located in Los Angeles (2004-2007) and New York City (2007-2010), has been resurrected at 87 Newtown Lane in East Hampton with an exhibition organized in collaboration with Robert and Joshua Aibel’s Moderne Gallery of Philadelphia.

The current show, “Moderne Gallery in East Hampton,” on view through May 21, includes 20th and 21st-century furniture by George Nakashima and David Ebner; rare 1920s and ’30s woodcuts by Wharton Esherick, and contemporary ceramics by Roger Herman. The Philadelphia gallery is internationally known for its vintage 20th-century furniture, lighting, and accessories.

The Rental Gallery, which is owned and directed by the artist-dealer Joel Mesler, will present artists it has shown over the years at its previous locations in a retrospective exhibition set to open in May. The gallery will remain open throughout the year, presenting longer-run exhibitions, often of an experimental character.

Rental originally opened in Los Angeles as a way to bridge the New York and West Coast art communities. Art dealers from Poland, Germany, and Switzerland have collaborated with the gallery in the past, and it has shown work by Robert Longo, R.H. Quaytman, Rob Pruitt, and Elizabeth Neel, among others. Last summer the Surf Lodge in Montauk held an exhibition of Mr. Mesler’s artwork.

Winter gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m.

 

Call for Submissions

The Alex Ferrone Gallery in Greenport has issued a call for photography-based works that show how light is used to create images. The deadline for submissions, which will be judged by Lisa Chalif, curator at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, is May 15. The submission fee is $40. More information can be found at the gallery’s website.

Choral Society of the Hamptons Will Sing to Spring

Choral Society of the Hamptons Will Sing to Spring

The Choral Society of the Hamptons at their winter concert
The Choral Society of the Hamptons at their winter concert
A concert of music spanning 300 years
By
Mark Segal

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate spring with “Across the Centuries,” a concert of music spanning 300 years, on March 26 at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. 

The program includes Pergolesi’s 18th-century piece “Magnificat,” Telemann’s “Laudate Jehovam, Omnes Gentes,” a setting for Psalm 117 also composed in the 18th century; “Trois Motets,” an early 20th-century composition by Roger-Ducasse, and “Laudes Organi” (“Praise to the Organ”) by Kodály.

Led by a guest conductor, Walter Klauss, the singers will be joined by Emelia Donato, soprano, Thomas Bohlert, organist, and the strings of the South Fork Chamber Ensemble. Ms. Donato, though only 22, has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra and at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and has toured Italy as a soloist with Musica Viva.

Kodály’s piece, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists and first performed in 1966, will feature the church’s three-manual pipe organ, which is considered the finest of its kind on the East End. The organist, Mr. Bohlert, the former principal accompanist for the choral society, recently retired after 16 years as director of music at the church, where he directed the chancel, children’s, and handbell choirs. He is a founding member of the chamber music ensemble Bach & Forth.

Mr. Klauss, a frequent choral society guest director and an East Hampton resident, has appeared worldwide as guest conductor of choruses and orchestras. He is the founder and conductor emeritus of the Musica Viva concert series in New York.

Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, with youth tickets $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Preferred seating is $75. Immediately after the concert, the choral society will hold a benefit cocktail reception for the conductor and soloists at the Palm. Reception reservations, at $100 per person, are available until next Thursday at the society’s website.

The choral society’s summer concert will take place on July 8 at the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Brahms’s “A German Requiem” will be performed with the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Mark Mangini, the society’s music director.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is an auditioned chorus that performs with professional conductors, soloists, orchestra, and accompanists. It was founded in 1946 by the late Charlotte Rogers Smith. 

New at Madoo

New at Madoo

The second program in the Madoo Conservancy’s “Madoo Talks: House and Garden” lecture series
By
Star Staff

“The Art of Elegance,” the second program in the Madoo Conservancy’s “Madoo Talks: House and Garden” lecture series, will take place Sunday at noon in the conservancy’s winter house studio. 

Marshall Watson, an interior designer known for creating luxurious yet livable spaces for his clients for 30 years, will discuss his concept of a residence as a complete unit combining house and garden. His new book, also titled “The Art of Elegance,” includes many garden environments flowing from his interiors.

Tickets are $25, $20 for members. A reception will follow the lecture.

A Mysterious 'Act' Next at Hampton Theatre Company

A Mysterious 'Act' Next at Hampton Theatre Company

Matthew Conlon and Rebecca Edana in "An Act of the Imagination"
Matthew Conlon and Rebecca Edana in "An Act of the Imagination"
Tom Kochie
At The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue
By
Star Staff

The next production of the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue is “An Act of the Imagination,” a mystery by Bernard Slade, which will open next Thursday and run through April 9. The suspenseful play’s protagonist is Arthur Putnam, the writer of 27 mystery novels, who has created his first romance.

The cast includes Matthew Conlon as Mr. Putnam, James M. Lotito Jr. as his friend Fred Burchitt, a police detective, and Rebecca Edana as the writer’s wife. Other performers are Jesse Pimpinella, Amanda Griemsmann, Meggie Doyle, and Cesa Pledger. 

Performances will take place Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8, and Sunday afternoons at 2:30. Tickets are $30, $25 for senior citizens (except Saturdays), $15 for those under 35, and $10 for students.

The company recently named Terry Brennan as its new general manager. Ms. Brennan, who worked for the CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale in sales, marketing, subscriptions, and box office management, also worked in theater as a producer, director, and performer. For six years, she and her husband, Ed, ran the Airport Playhouse in Bohemia.

Shelter Island's Mini-Music Fest

Shelter Island's Mini-Music Fest

At The Shelter Island Presbyterian Church
By
Star Staff

The Shelter Island Presbyterian Church will be alive with the sound of music this weekend. Katie McNally, a fiddler, and Neil Pearlman, a pianist, will perform a concert steeped in the musical traditions of Scotland and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia tomorrow evening from 7:30 to 9:30.  Based in Boston, the duo has been praised for their fresh approach to traditional forms.Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased through the website of Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, which is sponsoring the concert.

On Saturday at 8 p.m. the Shelter Island Friends of Music will present a concert by WindSync, a quintet featuring Garrett Hudson, flute; Emily Tsai, oboe; Julian Hernandez, clarinet; Anni Hochhalter, French horn, and Kara La­Moure, bassoon. The free performance will include music by Offenbach, Del Aguila, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Bernstein. A reception will follow the concert.

Met’s ‘La Traviata’

Met’s ‘La Traviata’

At Guild Hall
By
Star Staff

Verdi’s “La Traviata,” the next offering from The Met: Live in HD, will be shown at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Sonya Yoncheva will sing the role of Violetta, the tragic courtesan, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampton as his father, Germont. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

Tickets are still available for the Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts dinner, which will take place on Monday from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Susan Stroman, a director, choreographer, and performer, Edwina von Gal, a landscape designer, Philip Schultz, a poet, and Cheryl and Michael Minikes, who are philanthropists, will he honored. Dinner tickets start at $500 and can be purchased at Guild Hall’s website.

An Afghan Refugee Rapping Out of Iran

An Afghan Refugee Rapping Out of Iran

"Sonita" was directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami.
"Sonita" was directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami.
At The Southampton Arts Center
By
Star Staff

The Southampton Arts Center, in partnership with Telluride Mountainfilm, will show “Sonita,” a documentary by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, an Iranian filmmaker, tomorrow evening at 7. An 18-year-old Afghan refugee living in a shelter in Iran with dreams of becoming a rapper, Sonita is in many ways a typical teenage girl, but, in the tradition of forced marriage endemic to Afghan culture, her mother wants to sell her as a bride to a much older man. 

The film won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Tickets are $10.

In an unusual twist on musical accompaniment for silent films, William Hooker, a drummer, composer, and poet, will accompany “The Penalty,” a 1920 movie, with a solo jazz drum performance on Saturday at 7 p.m. Mr. Hooker’s 40 years as a soloist and as a leader of ensembles has established him as an important jazz performer and composer. 

“The Penalty” stars Lon Chaney as a legless man whose criminal mind has made him a master of the Barbary Coast underworld. Tickets are $15.

Bay Street's Week of Film, Music, and Dance

Bay Street's Week of Film, Music, and Dance

Lutz Rath
Lutz Rath
Kristi Kates
A Hamptons International Film Festival screening and a concert with calligraphy are two of the highlights
By
Star Staff

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will be a busy venue this week, with four days of films, music, and dancing, starting today at 6 p.m. with a screening of “The Winter Guest,” a drama directed by Alan Rickman about a widow determined to leave Scotland who gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother. Starring Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson, it was shown in 1997 at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Tickets are $10.

Joe Lauro, a filmmaker, musician, and archivist, will return to Bay Street tomorrow night at 8 with a new film in his Legends of Rock series, a restored version of rarely seen footage of the T.A.M.I. Show from 1964, which featured performances by Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, and others. Tickets are $15.

Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island will hold a Pachanga for Peace and Unity at Bay Street starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Loosely translated as “dance party,” the pachanga will feature music by Mambo Loco, Certain Moves, Willy Fuentes, Mila Tina, and others. In addition, 28 members of the Latino community will perform an R&B classic in celebration of diversity and unity. Tickets are $20.

The weekend will conclude Sunday afternoon at 3 with “Five Nation Ensemble,” a program that will include live calligraphy by a Chinese master accompanied by harp and cello, a narration by Lutz Rath of a Dada poem by Kurt Schwitters, a duet for violin and cello of a composition by the German composer Hanns Eisler, and performances of Saint-Saens’s Fantasie for harp and violin and Glinka’s Romance for harp, violin, and cello. Tickets are $25.

Perlman Music Program Violin Recital on Shelter Island

Perlman Music Program Violin Recital on Shelter Island

At the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island
By
Star Staff

The Perlman Music Program will present a solo violin recital by Francesca Anderegg, an alumna of the program, on Saturday afternoon at 5 at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. Ms. Anderegg, who will be accompanied on piano by John Root, will perform classic and contemporary works by Mozart, Hannah Lash, Clint Needham, Manuel de Falla, and Maurice Ravel. Tickets are $25, free for students.

A free students’ performance of classical masterworks will take place on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the same location. Reservations are not required. 

Martignon Brings Jazz to Parrish on Friday Night

Martignon Brings Jazz to Parrish on Friday Night

At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill
By
Star Staff

Hector Martignon, a two-time Grammy-nominated composer, producer, orchestrator, and pianist, will return to the Friday Night Jazz series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with his Foreign Affair quartet tomorrow at 6 p.m. The evening of Afro-Cuban and South American jazz will be performed in a candlelight cabaret setting with table service of drinks and light refreshments available for purchase from the Golden Pear Cafe.

Colombian-born and based in New York, Mr. Martignon, in addition to performing at jazz clubs in New York, festivals in Europe and Colombia, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, has worked extensively in film, theater, and television and played with such jazz icons as Ray Barretto, Gato Barbieri, Don Byron, Mongo Santamaria, and Tito Puente.

Tickets are $25, $10 for members. The museum has suggested advance reservations.