Love and Passion in Springs
“Wonderlust,” the 16th annual Love and Passion Show, will be on view Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. Organized by Karyn Mannix, the invitational exhibition will include photography, painting, and mixed-media work by more than 80 artists from across the country.
A reception will take place Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m., and an open mike for love-related poems, songs, and short stories will be held Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The show will be open Saturday from noon to 8 and Sunday from 10 to 4.
Two at Halsey McKay
Solo shows of work by Colby Bird and Christian Little will open Saturday afternoon with a reception from 2 to 4 at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton and continue through March 28.
Mr. Bird, who lives and works in upstate New York, takes inspiration in part from the history and raw materials left behind in the abandoned spaces that serve as his studios. His complex, eccentric sculptures reflect his concern with death, age, gravity, entropy, and beauty and employ materials ranging from wood and
The central themes of Mr. Little’s paintings are class, vanity, labor, leisure, and perceptions of reality. Abstracted figures engaged in maintenance-based activities share his compositions with trompe l’oeil renderings of marble surfaces, steam, mops, smoke, and other quotidian subjects. Faux-finishing and decorative painting techniques allow objects and spaces to seem at once real and artificial.
Winter Salon
Folioeast at 55 Main Street in East Hampton will open “The Winter Salon,” work by 28 East End artists, with a reception Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition will include a wide range of styles and mediums with painting, mixed media, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and prints among them. Many of the works have never been shown before.
Participating artists include Scott Bluedorn, Carolyn Conrad, Francine Fleischer, Denise Gale, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Leri, Barbara Thomas, Mark Webber, and Dan Welden. The show will remain on view through March 22.
