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Southampton Imports Music From Paris

Southampton Imports Music From Paris

At the Southampton Cultural Center
By
Star Staff

“Summer Roses V: An Evening in Paris,” a program that will draw from the late-19th-century musical salons of the City of Lights, will be presented Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center.

Junko Ohtsu, a violinist; Sarah Moulton Faux, a soprano, and Wei-En Hsu, a pianist, will perform works by Chopin, Vieuxtemps, Massenet, Gluck, Alabieff, and Pauline Viardot. A reception with the artists will follow the concert.

Tickets are $40, which includes a $10 tax-deductible donation to the center. Children under 14 will be admitted free.

 

Erricos, Melissa and Michael, Headline Pianofest Benefit in Southampton

Erricos, Melissa and Michael, Headline Pianofest Benefit in Southampton

At the Southampton Historical Museum
By
Star Staff

“Me and Dad: Back for More,” a musical benefit party for Pianofest in the Hamptons, will take place July 26 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Southampton Historical Museum.

The program features Melissa Errico, the Tony Award-nominated singer and actress who most recently starred in the musical “Bull Durham.” She will be accompanied by her father, Michael Errico, a pianist. Their lifelong musical relationship will be documented in amusing anecdotes and a shared love of the works of Berlin, Sondheim, Styne, Weill, Rodgers, Noel Coward, Michel Legrand, and others.

Tickets, which are $200, $100 for guests under 30, will be sold at the door, but reservations have been recommended.

Dance and Poetry

Dance and Poetry

At Ille Arts in Amagansett
By
Star Staff

Ian Spencer Bell, a dancer, choreographer, and poet, will perform a short program of new works, including “Holler,” which premiered in March at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Ille Arts in Amagansett. Mr. Bell blends dance and poetry to create an unusual performance style and language. “Holler” is a 10-minute solo based on memories of his childhood home in rural Virginia, during which he catalogs the contents of that home, the nearby town, and local wildlife.

 

SoFo Benefit

SoFo Benefit

At the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton
By
Star Staff

SoFo Celebrates the East End, a fund-raiser for the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, will take place Saturday from 6 to 9:30 p.m. The event, which benefits the museum’s educational and environmental programs and initiatives, will honor April Gornik, an artist and activist, Adrian Grenier, a star of “Entourage,” and Willi Salm, a conservationist.

The evening will include a cocktail reception, an hors d’oeuvres tasting menu by local chefs, a silent auction, and music by the Nancy Atlas Project. V.I.P. tickets start at $1,250. General admission tickets, at $375, and 30-and-under tickets, at $250, do not include the 6 to 7 p.m. cocktail reception. Tickets can be purchased through the museum’s website.

 

Gimme Shelter To-Do

Gimme Shelter To-Do

At the Southampton home of Ellen and Chuck Scarborough
By
Star Staff

The fourth annual summer benefit for Gimme Shelter Animal Rescue will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Southampton home of Ellen and Chuck Scarborough. The event raises money to save dogs that are on death row at kill shelters across the country, spay or neuter them, pay for medical care, and place them in homes.

The evening will include live music, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a live and silent auction. Mr. Scarborough, an Emmy Award-winning NBC news anchor and adopter of two Gimme Shelter dogs, will act as master of ceremonies. Tickets are $200 in advance, $225 at the door.

 

A Rabbi-Comedian

A Rabbi-Comedian

At Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor
By
Star Staff

Bob Alper, an ordained rabbi who left the pulpit almost 30 years ago and has been performing as a stand-up comedian ever since, will perform at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor today at 8 p.m. In addition to having performed throughout North America and England, Rabbi Alper’s comedic bits can be heard daily on Sirius XM satellite radio. In 2002 he began doing shows with Ahmed Ahmed, a Muslim comedian. The partnership evolved into the Laugh in Peace Tour, which has grown to include a Baptist minister and several other Muslims.

The show is open to adults and children over 11. Tickets are $20 at the door, and refreshments will be served.

The Art Scene: 07.09.15

The Art Scene: 07.09.15

Local art news
By
Mark Segal

Dan Rizzie Prints

“Dan Rizzie: Editions/Variations,” the first exhibition to concentrate on the innovative prints the Sag Harbor artist has created over the past 25 years, will open today at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through Aug. 3. Working with master printers at renowned etching and lithography workshops, Mr. Rizzie has taken an inventive approach to process, turning each intaglio, woodcut, or lithography project into an architectural experience by building each image from layers of plates and adding hand coloring and collage.

 

Seashore at Firestone

The Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton will open “She Sells Seashells by the Seashore,” a group exhibition that will bring the beach to the gallery, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. The show will remain on view through Aug. 2.

According to the gallery, each artist in the show emphasizes symbols of summer, whether it be Eric Yahnker’s “Selfie Preservation,” in which an outstretched hand emerges from waves, clutching an iPhone, or James Ulmer’s beach scenes with cartoon-like characters on flattened planes. The exhibition also includes work by Peter Dayton, Kenny Scharf, Jen Stark, and Agathe Snow, among others.

 

New at Tripoli Southampton

“Lacquered Papers,” an exhibition of new works by Bosco Sodi, will open today at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton and run through Aug. 2. A reception will happen Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The cracks and fissures on Mr. Sodi’s large paintings result from his application to the surface of pigment, sawdust, wood pulp, natural fibers, and glue, materials that dry and change as they react with their surroundings. “In my work, the process is transformative and full of accidental effects, and I try to find in it the beauty of imperfection,” the artist has said.

 

Abstraction at White Room

A group exhibition featuring the work of Barbara Bilotta and Mark Zimmerman, and including 16 other artists, is on view at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton through July 27. A reception with live music will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Bilotta considers herself an Abstract Expressionist, but her paintings suggest natural forms, especially landscapes, in which the swirling colors appear to be animated by the energy of wind and water. Also an abstract painter, Mr. Zimmerman works in a variety of styles, with elements of Pop, color field painting, Abstract Expressionism, and Op art present in his paintings.

 

“Shark!” at Whaling Museum

The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is presenting “Shark! The Misunderstood Fish,” an exhibition organized by Peter Drakoulias and Stephen T. Lobosco, through July 29. An opening reception will take place tomorrow at 6 p.m. and will be followed at approximately 8 by an outdoor screening of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws.” A contribution of $20 has been suggested for the reception.

The show will feature the work of Richard Ellis, an artist and marine biologist, and pieces by April Gornik, Dan Rizzie, Donald Sultan, Dalton Portella, Joe Alves, Savio Mizzi, David Pintauro, Annie Sessler, Anthony Ackril, James Katsipis, and jewelry by FIN. The exhibition will examine the history and biology of sharks through art, fossils, film, and life-size replicas.

On Saturday at 6 p.m., the museum will host a family picnic with balloon twisting, juggling, painting, storytelling, arts and crafts, and shark education kits. “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” will be shown on the lawn at 8.

Mr. Ellis will give a talk and multimedia presentation on Sunday morning at 10 that will include fishing and conservation expeditions with Peter Benchley, Frank Mundus, Rodney Fox, and others. He will also sign books and prints of his artwork that will be available for sale.

 

Lichtenstein Lectures

The Lichtenstein Lecture Series, a program of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, will present a diverse slate of free art-related talks on Sunday afternoons at 5, with Jane Weissman, a community muralist, speaking this weekend on “Protest and Celebration: Community Murals in New York City.”

With one exception, the talks will be held across the street from the Pollock-Krasner House at the Fireplace Project, 851 Springs-Fireplace Road. That exception is the annual John H. Marburger III Memorial Lecture, which will be held at Guild Hall on July 26. This year’s Marburger lecture will feature Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who will host a preview screening of her new film, “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict,” and a discussion afterward. Tickets for this program are $10, $8 for members of Guild Hall and the Pollock-Krasner House.

Future speakers and subjects are Cathy Curtis, author of “Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan — Painter”; Gail Levin, who will discuss “Jews and Abstract Expressionism”; Joan Marter, “Women and Action”; Ellen Landau, “Biographies and Bodies: Self and Other in Portraits by Elaine and Bill de Kooning,” and Jeffrey Grove, “Jackson Pollock’s ‘Portrait and a Dream.’ ”

 

Photography in Montauk

The Art Gallery at the Atlantic Terrace Motel in Montauk will open “East 2.0,” its second annual East End photography exhibition, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. The show will highlight “Montauk’s beauty through New York’s best photographers’ eyes,” according to James Katsipis, a Montauk photographer and organizer of the show.

 

Pop-Up Show and Auction

Also in Montauk, an art gallery will pop up Saturday at the Montauk Playhouse, where it will be open daily from 4 to 7 p.m. through July 30. The exhibition will showcase work by dozens of local artists that will also be available for online bidding beginning Saturday by means of a link at montaukplayhouse.org. Bidding will end on Aug. 1 at 10 p.m. at the conclusion of a live auction. Proceeds from the sales will benefit the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation.

 

Warhol Surfboards

If you are a surfer who admires the work of Andy Warhol, “Warhol Hits the Hamptons” is the show for you. An exhibition of Warhol-inspired surfboards by Tim Bessell, an artist from California, will open Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Chase Edwards Fine Art in Bridgehampton and run through July 21.

The surfboards, which will include such iconic Warhol subjects as Marilyn Monroe, Mao Zedong, and Elvis Presley — but none of Warhol catching a wave — are being released in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation.

 

New at Art Barge

In addition to its weeklong art workshops, the Art Barge on Napeague Harbor will hold weekend classes for the first time this summer. Studio Painting will run Saturday, Sunday, and July 25 and 26 from 10 a.m. to noon. The cost will be $50 a day. Art for the Family, for ages 6 to 9, will be held on the same dates, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., at a cost of $25 per person per day.

Classes focused on watercolor painting and digital drawing will take place July 18 and 19 from 10 a.m. to noon for $50 per class. Much more information about classes and other programs can be found at theartbarge.org.

Artists Speak, the series of talks held at the Art Barge, will feature Joan Semmel, who has focused her painting practice on issues of the body, from desire to aging, as well as those of identity and cultural imprinting, on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Ms. Semmel will be interviewed by Janet Goleas, an artist, writer, and independent curator. Tickets are $20, and advance reservations have been recommended.

 

Sculpture Inside and Out

“Sculpture for Home and Garden,” an exhibition of work by seven artists, is on view at Dodds and Eder in Sag Harbor both inside and outside in the garden through September. A garden picnic will take place July 25 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Sculpture by Robert Hooke and Norbert Kimmel is installed in the shop. Mr. Hooke focuses on humans and animals, working in stone and bronze to create recognizable but simplified forms that faintly suggest Cycladic figures.

Mr. Kimmel makes “basic shapes set in geometry” in aluminum, bronze, and steel. The garden will feature work by Robert Gurr, Dennis Leri, Michael Chiarello, David Elze, and Jerelyn Hanrahan.

 

A Correction

Art Southampton will open today at Nova’s Ark Project in Bridgehampton and continue through Monday. Last week’s paper listed several dates incorrectly.

LongHouse Auction Online

LongHouse Auction Online

Kiki Smith’s “Woman and Sheep,” a maquette-sized bronze cast from her larger series in LongHouse Reserve’s gardens, is available for bidding online at Paddle8 in LongHouse’s benefit auction.
Kiki Smith’s “Woman and Sheep,” a maquette-sized bronze cast from her larger series in LongHouse Reserve’s gardens, is available for bidding online at Paddle8 in LongHouse’s benefit auction.
This year’s auction features unusual and exceptional works by Ross Bleckner, Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, Richard Meier, Christo, Donald Lipski, Takashi Soga, Ross Watts, Jack Youngerman, and many more.
By
Jennifer Landes

LongHouse Reserve’s “On Gossamer Wings” benefit will be held on July 18, but the art auction tied to it is already online at the Paddle8 website.

This year’s auction features unusual and exceptional works by Ross Bleckner, Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, Richard Meier, Christo, Donald Lipski, Takashi Soga, Ross Watts, Jack Youngerman, and many more.

Of particular note are two sculptures offered in a miniaturized form of the installations currently on the LongHouse property. They are Ms. Smith’s “Woman with Sheep” and Mr. Soga’s “The Sea of the Ear-Ring-M14.”

Although the size of Ms. Smith’s bronze reclining female figure is small, 41/2 by 20 by 9 inches, it would require someone accustomed to weight-lifting to pick it up with one hand. The sheep, even smaller, is also quite hefty. The estimate is $40,000 and the opening bid is $20,000. Mr. Soga’s brass and lead work, which is 41/2 by 111/2 by 8 inches, replicates a much more colossal kinetic piece, on view in the garden, of a tall rectangular block holding up a giant cantilevered ring. Its starting bid is $1,250 on an estimate of $2,500.

The Cindy Sherman photograph “Untitled (Smithsonian),” dated 1975/2004, is a gelatin silver print that looks similarly inspired to her “Untitled Film Stills” but is also quite separate from it. The earlier series relied on settings and props as much as her dressing up in the character of some non-specific archetype. This is instead an extreme close-up of her face, decked out in 1920s-style makeup, Garbo-style. It has an estimate of $7,500 and an opening bid of $5,000.

Mr. Watts’s “mantra (o): roundabout” is a painstakingly handwritten series stating, merely, “round and round” over and over, using the text to provide not just the compositional shape but also the shading and shadowing that gives the circle a target or labyrinthine appearance. The estimate is $5,250, and the starting bid is $2,600.

The lithograph by Christo, “Wrapped Automobile (Project for 1950 Studebaker Champion Series 9G Coupe)” from this year, includes real cloth and thread collage. It is numbered 49 out of 50 artist’s proofs from an edition of 200. Its estimate is $6,500.

Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenberg, and James Rosenquist are represented with lithographs. Ceramic artists in the auction include Uko Morita and Jun Kaneko. Garden furniture is offered, as well as lines of musical composition by Nico Muhly.

Donald Lipski is represented by a wall sculpture of books, steel, and plastic. Robert Wilson, whose own Watermill Center party happens the following weekend, has given LongHouse two original charcoal and pencil drawings, each with an estimate of $3,250.

Other East End artists are well represented, among them Hope Sandrow, Lucy Winton, Steve Miller, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Ned Smyth, Bastienne Schmidt, Phillippe Cheng, Ralph Gibson, April Gornik, Eric Dever, Grant Haffner, Robert Harms, Scott Bluedorn, Mary Ellen Bartley, and Alice Aycock.

The auction was still being added to last week, and more lots may be included as the benefit nears. Online bidding will close at 11 p.m. on the night of the benefit.

The Art Scene: 07.16.15

The Art Scene: 07.16.15

Local art news
By
Mark Segal

Portella in Amagansett

“Above and Below,” a show of work by Dalton Portella, will open this evening with a reception from 6 to 9 at Sylvester & Co. at Home in Amagansett and remain on view through Sept. 30. The exhibition will include limited edition digital prints that use specialized photo editing to create dramatic vistas of sea and sky.

Mr. Portella, who dreamed of surfing in Montauk when he was growing up in Brazil in the 1970s, realized that dream after moving to New York City to work in advertising; he eventually relocated full time to the East End. Montauk’s Renaissance man is a musician and painter as well as a photographer and surfer.

 

Marc Dalessio at Grenning

The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor will open a solo show today of work by Marc Dalessio, a naturalistic painter now living in Zagreb, Croatia. A reception will take place Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and the exhibition will run through Aug. 2.

After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1992, Mr. Dalessio spent eight years in Florence, Italy, developing his style and refining his technique. While he also paints portraits, he is especially drawn to landscapes, and he paints en plein air as often as possible. He has worked in Morocco, India, Italy, Shelter Island, and dozens of other far-flung locations.

 

Sculptural Paintings

The Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton will present a solo exhibition of recent work by Andy Moses from today through Sunday. A reception for the artist, who lives in Los Angeles, will happen Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Moses’s work is grounded in the physical properties of paint, which he pushes by means of chemical reactions, viscosity interference, and gravity dispersion. Though the swirling, colorful surfaces are the result of technical processes, the paintings often reference nature. In addition, by mounting his painted Lucite sheets on concave and convex wood panels that in some cases slope away from the wall, he creates works that are simultaneously two and three-dimensional.

 

Brazilian Artist at Khornak

“Poetics of Residue,” a show of work by the Brazilian artist Andre Costa, will open Saturday at the Lucille Khornak Gallery in Southampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will be up through Aug. 1.

The author of “Art With Environmental Interface,” Mr. Costa “proposes a dialogue between art and communication, between ethics and aesthetics, between the local and the global,” according to the gallery. His colorful paintings, which often include letters, symbols, and numbers, reflect the influence of Pop.

Pamela Emil at Jermain

The John Jermain Memorial Library will present “Blink,” an exhibition of photographs by Pamela Emil, from Sunday through Aug. 31. A reception will be held on July 25 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Ms. Emil has traveled the world as a documentary photographer, and the show will feature images of people on the fringes of society as well as landscapes, street scenes, and nature, including photographs of the East End.

 

Photo Group in Water Mill

“Summer Waters,” an exhibition of water-themed photographs by members of the East End Photographers Group, is now on view at the Water Mill Museum and will run through Aug. 11. A reception will happen Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Organized by Marilyn Stevenson, the show includes work by 30 photographers using traditional, digital, and alternative photographic processes.

 

“Summer Pleasures”

Still more photographs are on view at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor. “Summer Pleasures,” which will run through Aug. 2, includes work by Daniel Jones, Blair Seagram, Herb Friedman, Eric Meola, Roberto Dutesco, Stephen Wilkes, and Ms. Booth. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

 

Juried Show in Southampton

“East to West,” a juried exhibition of the work of 11 Long Island artists, will open at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will remain on view through Aug. 9.

The selected artists are Bentley Meeker, Diane Tuft, Tomas Vu, Gary Bartoloni, Charles Damga, Angie Drakapoulos, Alex Ferrone, Setha Low, Mike McLaughlin, Susan Newmark, and Immi Storrs.

 

Art in Agawam Park

Also in Southampton, the Southampton Artists Association will hold its annual “Art in the Park” exhibition on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Agawam Park. More than 60 artists will sell paintings, sculpture, photography, and mixed-media works.

 

Looking for Janeway

Carol Janeway (1913-1989), a ceramicist whose work was widely exhibited and purchased by major museums, is the subject of a monograph by Victoria Jenssen, a writer from ­Nova Scotia. Ms. Jenssen is trying to ­locate any existing examples of Janeway’s work on the East End. Among these was a ceramic fireplace surround from a Beach Hampton cottage that appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1949. She can be reached by email at victoriajenssen­@gmail.com.

Mixed Sales at Art Fairs

Mixed Sales at Art Fairs

Bernie Taupin, left, and Mark Borghi shared a moment together in the Borghi booth at Art Southampton during last Thursday night’s “platinum V.I.P. preview.”
Bernie Taupin, left, and Mark Borghi shared a moment together in the Borghi booth at Art Southampton during last Thursday night’s “platinum V.I.P. preview.”
Jennifer Landes
As might be expected, those who reported sales were more willing to speak for the record than the disappointed participants
By
Mark Segal

South Fork art dealers reported mixed results during and after last week’s two art fairs, Art Southampton and Market Art + Design. As might be expected, those who reported sales were more willing to speak for the record than the disappointed participants.

Sara Nightingale had a booth at Market Art + Design, formerly Art Market Hamptons, which relocated this summer to Fairview Farm in Bridgehampton. “Every booth was really well laid out and had good art,” she said. “The tent and architectural layout were beautiful, as was the water view.” She felt the size of the fair was manageable and intimate.

As of press time, she had sold works by Rossa Cole, Glenn Fischer, and Elizabeth Wadsworth, and expected to close on several other sales. “It was definitely worth it for the forging of new relationships and the art world gossip about upcoming fairs, artists, and dealers you need to know about to stay ahead of the curve.”

Scott Bluedorn of Neoteric Fine Art was also pleased about Market. “It was a very good fair this year. I was showing all East Hampton artists. Attendance was decent, despite the really nice weather that I’m sure kept a lot of people away, as well as the new location at Fairview Farm in Mecox. It was nice to be removed from the busy part of town where the fair had previously been, and it made the fair more of a destination. I was lucky to report some sales, as many neighboring galleries were somewhat disappointed. I will probably do the fair next year as well.”

One dealer, who preferred to remain anonymous, sold nothing at Market Art + Design and felt there were not enough people and not enough who wanted to spend money. Others who didn’t sell said they had a lot of “bebacks, folks who said they would be back” and made some good contacts. All agreed it was a beautiful fair.

Beth McNeill of the McNeill Art Group was enthusiastic about Art Southampton, which closed Monday. “The fair has been a great success. We sold work by regional artists Tapp Francke and Jeff Muhs, as well as work by New York-based Neil Powell and Adriana Carvalho from Miami. There was a steady flow of the right people actively seeking art, including art advisers, designers, private collectors, and museum professionals from our region and New York City.” 

Mark Borghi, whose eponymous gallery was also represented at Art Southampton, sold one piece in a booth devoted to Bernie Taupin but said the fair’s relocation to Nova’s Ark Project in Bridgehampton was a very positive move. “It’s the best place to have a fair,” he said.

Karyn Mannix had a booth at ArtHamptons, which ran from July 2 through July 5, and at Market Art + Design. She was more succinct. “I did very well at ArtHamptons,” she said.