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A Most Private Club

A Most Private Club

At the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor
By
Star Staff

Bay Street Theater will present the East Coast premiere of “Five Presidents,” a play by Rick Cleveland, an Emmy Award-winning writer, from Tuesday through July 19.

Originally produced at the Arizona Theatre Company and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the comic drama focuses on a meeting of America’s most private club, made up of former presidents. Thrown together at the funeral of Richard Nixon, the sitting president and the four “exes” vent frustrations, revisit grievances, and reveal the toll the presidency takes on its occupants.

Directed by Mark Clements, the play stars John Bolger (Gerald Ford), Mark Jacoby (George H.W. Bush), Martin L’Herault (Jimmy Carter), Steve Sheridan (Ronald Reagan), and Britt Whittle (Bill Clinton).

“Five Presidents” will play at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays, at 8 on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. on July 1 and 5. Tickets are priced from $53.75 to $75.

 

Music at Harper’s

Music at Harper’s

At Harper’s Books in East Hampton
By
Star Staff

Jesse Harris and Star Rover will play songs from their new album “No Wrong No Right” tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Mr. Harris is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer who has released 13 albums as a solo artist and many with his former backing band, the Ferdinandos. He won a Grammy Award in 2003 for Song of the Year for Norah Jones’s hit “Don’t Know Why.”

Last winter, Mr. Harris joined forces with Will Graefe and Jeremy Gustin of Star Rover, a Bushwick-based duo that “specializes in an alluring sort of pastoral punk that suggests a collaboration between Deerhoof and John Fahey,” according to Time Out New York.

 

The Art Scene: 06.18.15

The Art Scene: 06.18.15

Aakash Nihalani’s “Passage (Green),” on view at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton, is a complicated compilation of acrylic and Flashe paint, mixed media, canvas, corrugated plastic, wood, and rare earth magnets.
Local art news
By
Mark Segal

Botanical Compounds on Canvas

“Plants of the Gods,” new monumental paintings by Kelsey Brookes, will open at the Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton with a reception Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and run through July 7.

A microbiologist, surfer, and self-taught painter, Mr. Brookes, who lives in San Diego, explores such varied areas as the nature of existence and perception, science and philosophy, Hindu and Buddhist deities, and fractals and math-based patterns.

The paintings are based on his investigations into ancient botanical compounds. One of four plant-based hallucinogens underscores each composition, making visible the normally unseen world of atoms and molecules while touching on the realms of Pointillism and Op Art.

Marie Jacotey at Blumenthal

“Dirty Summer of Love,” an exhibition of paintings by Marie Jacotey, a French artist now living in London, is on view at the Robert Blumenthal Gallery in East Hampton through July 4.

The show includes work from her Babe Cave series, a group of oil paintings on plastic that are hung using static electricity. “This process gives them an ephemeral aspect; they could fall,” she has said.

Ms. Jacotey often takes images of people, including herself, from Internet platforms such as Facebook and Tumblr. Many of the images are candidly erotic, and often accompanied by text. The influence of artists such as David Hockney and Philip Guston can be seen in her work, which also is informed by cartoons and illustrated books.

Jack Lenor Larsen at Art Barge

“Artists Speak: Conversations at the Beach,” the Art Barge’s summer series of artist interviews, will kick off Wednesday at 6 p.m. when Jack Lenor Larsen, the renowned textile designer, master weaver, gardener, collector, and founder of LongHouse Reserve, will be interviewed by Janet Goleas, an artist, writer, and independent curator.

Seating is limited, and tickets, which are $20, can be purchased in advance at theartbarge.com. A reception will follow the conversation.

Margaret Garrett

At Birnam Wood

The Birnam Wood Gallery in East Hampton will present a solo show of paintings and collages from Margaret Garrett’s “Choros” series from tomorrow through July 6. A reception will be held Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Originally trained as a dancer, Ms. Garrett, who lives on Shelter Island, has likened the canvas or paper to an empty stage, with the development of line, texture, form, and color involving a motion and energy reminiscent of choreography.

She works in extended series. While her previous series, “Turning Fields,” had a lyrical, calligraphic quality and all-over compositions, the “Choros” pieces consist of floating abstract shapes of a single solid color, with a graphic quality reminiscent of Matisse’s cutouts.

New at White Room

The new exhibition at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton, which will be open through July 7, features work by Paton Miller and Mark Seidenfeld, along with a selection of pieces by gallery artists. An opening reception will happen Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Seidenfeld, who has a studio in Bridgehampton, is a man of many styles and mediums. His photographs range from the mythological to the erotic to the ghoulish to the surreal. His paintings include all-over abstractions with suggestions of imagery peeking through the layers of paint, and in-your-face representational works with overtones of pop, surrealism, and satire.

Mr. Miller’s paintings emerge from the events that have shaped his life, particularly his travels in Europe and Asia. He has referred to the latter as “my National Geographic work.” His often exotic subject matter is offset by his preoccupation with working the surface, which he attributes in part to his having worked with dynamite, in construction.

Poetic Realist at Grenning

An exhibition of new paintings by Sarah Lamb will open today at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor and run through July 12. A reception will be held Saturday evening from 6 to 8.

Ms. Lamb, who earned a B.S. in studio art from Brenau University in Georgia and studied in Florence, Italy; France, and New York City, brings her mastery of European illusionistic still life and trompe l’oeil techniques to bear on American comestibles and antiques, from lobsters to Seckel pears to weathervanes.

Her recent move to Texas has added Southwest Americana to the East Coast objects already in her vocabulary.

Collage at Dodds and Eder

“Strength in Layers,” an exhibition of work by Ruben Marroquin, Steve Mitrani, and Oliver Peterson, will open Saturday at Dodds and Eder Home in Sag Harbor and remain on view through Aug. 4. A reception is set for June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.

All three artists will exhibit collages. Mr. Marroquin, who is a visual artist, textile designer, and weaving instructor, combines cotton, linen, and bamboo fibers with modern industrial cords and other materials in his wall works. Mr. Mitrani’s work incorporates screen printing, intricate and psychedelic patterning, and ambiguous imagery. Mr. Peterson experiments with paints and patinas, and he often applies random studio detritus to his compositions, which are inspired in part by graffiti, the pop zeitgeist, literature, and politics.

“Resolve” at Ashawagh

“Resolve,” an exhibition of the work of 50 artists, will be on view Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. A reception will take place Saturday evening from 5 to 8.

The artists were asked to present their viewpoint of “resolve,” which, according to the show’s organizers, “encompasses many of the qualities necessary to an artist’s career.” Works on view include painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media.

30 Paintings in 30 Days

“Best of 30 Squared,” an unusual exhibition of work by 18 artists, will open today at the Water Mill Museum and remain on view through July 12. A reception will be held Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.

The show is the result of a challenge conceived by Aubrey Grainger, a member of Plein Air Peconic, and disseminated via social media, to paint 30 paintings in 30 days. The resulting works feature landscapes, beaches, people, children, fish, flowers, fruit, and both urban and rural scenes. Stylistically, they include both realism and abstraction, and they range from very small to large, framed works.

The show will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Tuesdays. Thirty percent of sales will benefit the museum.

“Wattsup Montauk”

“Wattsup Montauk: Photographs by Ben Watts,” is on view through July 11 at the Milk Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition coincides with the launch of Mr. Watts’s new monograph, “Montauk Dreaming.”

The show includes images from the book as well as a survey of the photo­grapher’s 30-year career. The book is a celebration of “the End,” Mr. Watts’s home since 1995 and, in his words, “paradise three hours outside the walls of the greatest city in the world.”

An established commercial and fashion photographer, Mr. Watts has collected the photographs he takes on his days off for the book, which has an introduction by the actress Naomi Watts, his sister.

Behold, Madoo in All Its Glory

Behold, Madoo in All Its Glory

Robert Dash’s untitled oil-and-gesso painting on lithograph from his “Sagg Main” series will be part of the Much Ado About Madoo live auction tomorrow night, carrying an estimate of $10,000.
Robert Dash’s untitled oil-and-gesso painting on lithograph from his “Sagg Main” series will be part of the Much Ado About Madoo live auction tomorrow night, carrying an estimate of $10,000.
Gary Mamay
The annual garden sale and celebration, Much Ado About Madoo
By
Star Staff

The Madoo Conservancy in Saga­ponack will hold its annual garden sale and celebration, Much Ado About Madoo, this weekend. The festivities begin tomorrow with a benefit cocktail preview party from 6 to 8 p.m.

While the main event takes place on Saturday, the Friday night cocktail party has replaced the Saturday night reception and offers both a preview of the market sale and the live auction, presented by Jamie Niven, which was traditionally held on Saturday.

The auction will feature a range of items, including a work on paper from Robert Dash’s “Sagg Main” series, recently shown at the Parrish Art Museum, and the always eagerly sought chicken manure from April Gonzales Garden Design. There is a silent auction as well, and a new exhibition, “Rediscovering Robert Dash,” will be on view.

On Saturday, the garden market will open at 10 a.m., with more than 25 retailers of garden furniture, rare plants, gourmet items, antiques, and accessories. Hunter Boot, Sag Harbor Florist, Cire Trudon, Glover Perennials, Fermob, Madison James, Austere c/o the Maidstone, Victoria Amory & Co., and Wolfman-Gold are some of the vendors participating.

There will be two special events on Saturday. At noon, a lunch and conversation with Frances Schultz, author of “The Bee Cottage,” and Charlotte Moss, who wrote “Garden Inspirations,” will cover gardening, decorating, and their books, which will also be available for signing. Tickets are $150, or $125 for members. And from 5 to 7 p.m., “Once Upon a Time at Madoo” will offer storytelling and music by a string quartet from Juilliard. Tickets cost $25 for this event.

Tickets for the cocktail party are $200, or $150 for Madoo members. Admission to Saturday’s market, open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., is $20, free for members. Tickets for the events and preview require reservations, which can be made through the Madoo website.

 

Full Slate at Bay Street

Full Slate at Bay Street

Colleen Saidman Yee will share her first book‚ “Yoga for Life‚” at Bay Street Theater’s inaugural Creators, Cocktails, and Conversations event.
Colleen Saidman Yee will share her first book‚ “Yoga for Life‚” at Bay Street Theater’s inaugural Creators, Cocktails, and Conversations event.
At the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor
By
Star Staff

During the run of its mainstage production “The New Sincerity,” Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is filling the few empty slots on its calendar with new programs.

Creators, Cocktails, and Conversations, a new series, will begin tomorrow afternoon at 5 with “Novel Ideas,” a panel discussion in which six writers will talk about their latest books with Samantha York, editor in chief of Hamptons magazine.

The writers and their books are Aliza Licht (“Leave Your Mark”), Suzanne Corso (“Hello Hollywood”), Kate Betts (“My Paris Dream”), Colleen Saidman Yee (“Yoga for Life”), and the co-authors Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza (“The Knockoff”). Tickets are $20 and include a free glass of wine.

Another special program will focus on “Gosford Park,” Robert Altman’s 2001 murder mystery set in the 1930s at an English country estate. The film will be screened Monday at 7 p.m. and followed by a discussion among Bob Balaban, the actor and director; Kathryn R. Altman, the late filmmaker’s wife, and Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, a film critic and co-author, with Ms. Altman, of “Altman,” the first authorized biography of the director of such classics as “Mash,” “Nash­ville,” “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” and “A Wedding.”

A book signing will follow the discussion. Tickets are $20 and, like those for “Novel Ideas,” can be purchased at baystreet.org or at the box office.

 

Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf in ‘All My Sons’

Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf in ‘All My Sons’

Alec Baldwin will play Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at Guild Hall.
Alec Baldwin will play Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at Guild Hall.
Steve Schofield
At Guild Hall
By
Star Staff

“All My Sons,” starring Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf in Arthur Miller’s 1947 play based on a true story of industrial corruption during World War II, will open Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall and run through June 28. Stephen Hamilton will direct.

Mr. Baldwin will play Joe Keller, who was exonerated after being charged with shipping damaged aircraft cylinder heads that led to the deaths of 21 pilots. He blamed his partner and former neighbor, Steve Deever, who was ultimately convicted and sent to prison. Joe’s wife, Kate, portrayed by Ms. Metcalf, knows her husband is guilty but lives in denial, and the two families are haunted by the crime that hangs over them.

Miller wrote “All My Sons” after the failure of his first play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck,” which closed after four performances on Broadway. According to the playwright, the success of “Sons” “made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.”

Evening performances will be at 8 p.m. except for June 13, the official opening night, which starts at 7, and a 3 p.m. show on June 28. Tickets range in price from $40 to $150, $38 to $145 for members.

 

The Art Scene: 06.04.15

The Art Scene: 06.04.15

"Louse Point" by Adam Bartos will be on view at the Drawing Room through July 16.
"Louse Point" by Adam Bartos will be on view at the Drawing Room through July 16.
East End art news
By
Mark Segal

Bartos and Youngerman

Concurrent shows of work by Adam Bartos and Jack Youngerman will open tomorrow at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through July 6.

Mr. Bartos will exhibit new large-format photographs taken at Louse Point in Springs, which is bordered by the broad stretch of Gardiner’s Bay to the east and the wetlands of Accabonac Harbor to the west. As in much of his work, the artist is drawn to elements such as a pickup truck and its tire tracks on the beach as much as to the landscape itself.

Mr. Youngerman’s sculptures in Baltic birch plywood explore varied degrees of torsion, “with volumetric contours that wind into helixes, spirals, and gentle twists of form as they radiate outward from a central axis,” according to the gallery.

New at Harper’s Books

Harper’s Books in East Hampton will open solo exhibitions of work by Margo Wolowiec and Travess Smalley with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will run through July 7.

Ms. Wolowiec uses a traditional loom to weave handmade canvases on whose individual strands are printed pixels from digital images. The works derive from anonymous tourist photographs of the Louvre and Disneyland, which are transformed by her process into images that resemble static on a screen, bringing two different technologies — hand-weaving and digital imaging — into alignment.

The transformation of images and files as they are copied, printed, scanned, or backed up interests Mr. Smalley. His letter-size works on paper highlight moments when new images, patterns, and textures emerge from the various reproductive methods.

Nautical Show at Nightingale

Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will present “Reinventing the Helm,” a group show that asks contemporary artists to “pirate” the genre of traditional maritime art, from Saturday through Aug. 3. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

It was only a matter of time before Ms. Nightingale, a serious sailor since childhood, would ask artists such questions as, “Will a siren’s call land in a text-based work? Will there be paintings, cakes, clouds, sculptures, and photographs of boats? Sharks too?”

Among the artists who will try to answer these and other questions are Dalton Portella, Darius Yektai, Christa Maiwald, Lucy Winton, Peter Sabbeth, Ross Watts, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Rossa Cole, Scott Bluedorn, Alexis Martino, Perry Burns, Elizabeth Dow, and many more. Ms. Nightingale has suggested nautical attire for the opening reception.

American Painting in Sag

The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, in conjunction with MME Fine Art in Manhattan, is presenting “American Paintings: 1820-1941” through June 14, with an opening reception set for Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Among the artists whose work is on view are Irving Ramsey Wiles, who built a home and studio on the North Fork in 1898 and worked mostly en plein air; Clarence Kerr Chatterton, who studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri and was a friend of Edward Hopper and George Bellows, and Guy C. Wiggins, an American Impressionist who worked in Lyme, Conn.

John Ferguson Weir, Charles Henry Ebert, and Jean Wechsler Knapp are also represented in the exhibition, as is an unknown painter whose portrait of a young boy from 1820 is a fine example of early American portraiture.

Cornelia Foss at Marcelle

The Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton will open a show of new paintings by Cornelia Foss on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through June 21.

A painterly realist who has been at it for more than 50 years, Ms. Foss is known for her fresh and personal vision, with intense emotion sharing the canvas with the formal constraints of design and painting.

Featured in numerous solo and group shows both nationally and internationally, her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum for Women, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., among many other public and private collections.

Big Show at Little Estia

Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor is having a big show and auction of work by 44 artists today through June 28. The exhibition is a benefit for Springs Seedlings and Project Most, an afterschool program for East Hampton students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Bidding will start online at Paddle8.com on Friday, June 12, but works can now be previewed on the website. The show will culminate with a live auction and party in the restaurant’s garden on June 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. Food and beverages will be provided by local restaurants, caterers, wineries, and other producers. Tickets to the party are $150 and can be purchased at projectmost.com.

Among the artists who have donated work are Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, Mary Heilmann, Bryan Hunt, Steve Miller, Dan Rizzie, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Lucy Winton, and Almond Zigmund.

Southampton’s Art Legacy

In conjunction with Southampton’s 375th anniversary, the Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Gallery is presenting “Artists and Southampton: A Living Legacy” through Aug. 3. A reception will happen Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Organized by Arlene Bujese, the center’s curator, the show will include work by 19 artists ranging from such seminal figures as Jane Freilicher, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson to contemporary artists, among them Carol Hunt, Paton Miller, and Jeff Muhs.

Paintings and Jewelry

Zoe Pennebaker Breen, an abstract artist from East Hampton, and John Mutch, a jewelry designer, will be showing their work at SpaUnique and Jeunesse Skincare in Southampton on June 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served, and a portion of each sale will be donated to Last Chance Animal Rescue.

 

A Correction

Last week’s Art Scene item concerning “Sculpted Images,” an exhibition at the Eastville Community Historical Society, gave incorrect information about the screening of “Stonefaced,” a film by Vivian Ducat, and the panel discussion to follow. The screening and panel will take place on June 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Art Scene: 06.11.15

The Art Scene: 06.11.15

Local art news
By
Mark Segal

Elaine de Kooning Remembered

In anticipation of its August exhibition “Elaine de Kooning Portrayed,” the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will present a free talk by Denise Elaine Lassaw, de Kooning’s goddaughter, on Sunday at 5 p.m.

“E de K: A Life in Frames” will include Ms. Lassaw’s personal recollections of her godmother, from whom she received her middle name, illustrated with family snapshots and documents. The daughter of Ibram and Ernestine Lassaw, who became full-time Springs residents in 1963, she will also reminisce about growing up in the heart of the Abstract Expressionist milieu in both New York City and East Hampton.

Art Barge Up and Running

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art has scheduled a wide variety of workshops that will run through the summer and into September at the Art Barge on Napeague.

Studio painting classes take place weekdays from 9 to noon and from 1 to 4 through September. Teachers include Michael Rosch, Bill Nagle, Ralph Carpentier, Sue Gussow, David Joel, Sally Egbert, Jim Bergesen, Aurelio Torres, and Christopher Kohan. Full-day classes, from 9 to 4, cost $250. Half days are $200.

The institute will also offer workshops in ceramics, collage, pastel, assemblage, watercolor, drawing, encaustic, and photography. New this year are a writing workshop, weekend workshops in writing and digital art, and a class devoted to art for families. The Artists Speak lecture series will return with four Wednesday-evening programs.

Details about all classes can be found at theartbarge.org.

New at Halsey Mckay

The Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton has two new exhibitions on view through June 22. Patrick Brennan and Jennie Jieun Lee, working in painting and ceramics respectively, “celebrate the self, physically at work in the studio and emotionally in the mind,” according to the gallery.

Mr. Brennan uses oil, acrylic, silk, paper, Mylar, wood, photographs, and popsicle sticks, affixing each piece to the picture plane so it influences its neighboring components without any representational references.

For Ms. Lee, porcelain forms act like canvases, to which she attaches three-dimensional ceramic embellishments, including layered glazes, drips, and pours, resulting in mask-like pieces that express their materiality in complex layered works.

In the upstairs gallery, Brion Nuda Rosch, whose work combines sculpture, painting, collage, and photographs, produces art that the gallery calls “at once ridiculously formal, elegantly primitive, and sometimes represented in the form of a photograph.”

Christensen at Ille Arts

“People, Places, and Things,” a show of new paintings by Don Christensen, will open at Ille Arts in Amagansett with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through June 30.

The show will consist of smaller works, some of which, such as “Sister’s Mountains III,” with its five triangular shapes seeming to reach for a brightly colored sky, suggest imagery. At the same time, they retain the artist’s commitment to what Lilly Wei, an art critic and independent curator, called a “distinctive brand of high-energy abstractions.”

Mr. Christensen, who had a 20-year career as a musician before turning to painting, has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Springs.

Paintings And

Animated Projections

The Tripoli Gallery in Southampton will present “Aakash Nihalani: Passage,” new works by the installation artist, from tomorrow through July 5. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Nihalani’s art takes its cues from the architecture and geometries of each specific site. His interventions engage the viewer by using familiar shapes to produce unexpected visuals that transform the surfaces of buildings or canvases.

The exhibition will display his most recent paintings in conjunction with animated projections that bring the human performer into the work to challenge the viewer’s perceptions of gesture, context, space, and meaning.

Dark Paintings

“Hidden Treasure,” an exhibition of paintings by Haim Mizrahi, an East Hampton artist, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs Saturday and Sunday, with an opening reception set for Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m.

The show will feature glow-in-the-dark paintings, supported by black lights, whose compositions will be altered as the lighting shifts from black to ordinary incandescent. The show’s title refers to the surprise elements that emerge as the paintings change.

Four at Kramoris

The Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present work by Lauren Chenault, Christopher Engel, Rick Gold, and Adrienne Kitaeff from today through June 2. A reception is set for Saturday from 5 to 6:30.

Both Ms. Chenault and Mr. Gold are photographers who are partial to landscapes as subjects. His recent work aims at precise control of color and light in natural settings. She often works at the beach, with the intention of catching a precise moment.

Mr. Engel’s paintings feature archetypal images that have a primitive and mystical quality, sometimes including numbers, words, and symbols crudely scrawled over the image. Ms. Kitaeff, a longtime writer and photographer, creates drawings of frontal faces on ceramic tiles with an iPad and an app.

Abstraction at Ross

"The Illusion of Definition,” an exhibition of work by Roisin Bateman, Don Christensen, and Anne Raymond, is on view at the Ross School gallery in East Hampton through June 23. All three artists work abstractly, but in a variety of mediums and approaches.

Ms. Bateman expresses the metaphoric effects of weather on nature in her paintings, pastels, and monotypes. Mr. Christensen’s geometric shapes and bright, vibrant colors are inspired by nature and music. Ms. Raymond uses glazes of translucent color and expressive drawing to evoke nature without suggesting landscape.

The exhibition, as in years past, has been organized by seventh-grade students, with the support of Jennifer Cross, Jon Mulhern, and Carol Crane, teachers.

Bruce Milne in Sag

The AMG Gallery for the Arts in Sag Harbor, a relative newcomer, having opened its doors in February, will present “Photo Scapes” by Bruce Milne, a Sag Harbor photographer, from tomorrow through June 28, with a reception happening tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Milne grew up in rural New York State and developed a profound feeling for nature early on that today informs his photographs, which capture wild and usually unpopulated landscapes shrouded in fog or the dense undergrowth overtaking forests and streams.

Film and Panel at Eastville

In conjunction with its current exhibition, “Sculpted Images,” the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor will present “Stonefaced,” a documentary by Vivian Ducat of Sag Harbor about Robert King, whose photographs of faces on iconic New York City buildings share the exhibition space with David Cosgrove’s carvings from historic gravestones in Sag Harbor, on Saturday at 11 a.m.

The screening will be followed by a discussion among Ms. Ducat, Mr. King, Mr. Cosgrove, and Bill Chaleff, an East End architect. Refreshments will be served.

Open Rehearsal at Watermill Center

Open Rehearsal at Watermill Center

At The Watermill Center
By
Star Staff

The Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of “Flying Point,” a multimedia portrait of the contemporary Shinnecock community and the tribe’s history, on Saturday from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

“Flying Point” is a work in progress by four of the center’s artists in residence, Tomek Jeziorski, a filmmaker and video documentarian, Adam Lenz, a composer and multimedia artist, Shane Weeks, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and a multimedia artist, and Karolina Zielinska, a photographer and cinematographer.

The artists have been documenting the oral history of the Shinnecock Nation, accumulating personalized recollections that have rarely been available outside the tribe. Video, sound, and storytelling will express the community’s culture.

 

Chuck Close at Work

Chuck Close at Work

At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill
By
Star Staff

“Chuck Close,” a documentary by Marion Cajori, will be screened Friday, June 19, at 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where an exhibition of the artist’s photographs is on view.

The last documentary made by Ms. Cajori, who died in 2006, the film details Mr. Close’s singular process of portraiture. In addition to his recollections of his life and career, the film includes interviews with Elizabeth Murray, Brice Marden, Janet Fish, Dorothea Rockburne,  Robert Storr, and Kirk Varnedoe.

In a review in The New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz praised “Ms. Cajori’s splendid movie, which captures Mr. Close at work via a combination of probing close-ups of paint-daubed canvas and wide shots that situate him within his work space.”