Zacharias's Late Work
“Athos Zacharias: The Late Work,” an exhibition of paintings completed by the artist during the two years before his death in August of last year, is on view through October on the website of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs. The 12 gestural abstractions blend his devotion to action painting with his love of pop-culture imagery, according to a release.
Born in 1927, Zacharias studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before moving in the mid-1950s to New York City, where he became an active member of the New York School. He built a house and studio on Copeces Lane in Springs in 1962 and, while developing his own painting vocabulary, worked as an assistant to Willem de Kooning, Alfonso Ossorio, and Lee Krasner.
Introduction to Opera
As part of its new online programming platform, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has announced Introduction to the Joys of Opera, an online workshop for ages 13 and up that will illuminate opera’s origins, history, and how it has influenced live theater and popular music. Led by Ashley Galvani Bell, a soprano, and Anton Armemdariz Diaz, a tenor and stage director, the eight-session class will take place via Zoom on Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. starting next week.
The cost is $200. More information and a link for registration can be found on the theater’s website or by emailing Allen O’Reilly, Bay Street’s director of education, at [email protected].
Peter Campus Talk
Peter Campus, a pioneer in video art, new media, and photography whose work has explored human psychology, perception, and the natural landscape, will give an illustrated talk and discuss his career with Terrie Sultan, the director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, tomorrow at 5 p.m.
Represented in major museum collections throughout the world, Mr. Campus’s influence on the video medium began with a solo show at Bykert Gallery in New York in 1972 and a one-artist exhibition in 1974 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, one of the first museums in the country to feature video art. He has produced a variety of innovative work in video and photography ever since. A link to the Zoom webinar will follow free registration on the Parrish’s website.
Firestone’s Frieze
Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton plans to participate in this year’s Frieze New York online viewing room along with 200 other galleries. The fair would have opened to the public this week on Randalls Island if not for the coronavirus shutdown.
Mr. Firestone will install many of the works seen in his virtual booth in his actual storage space and will be available to set up video chats about the artwork he is including. Online access to the fair will be free via the Frieze website from tomorrow through Friday, May 15, but registration is required.
The artists he will feature this year are Joe Overstreet, Varnette Honeywood, Martha Edelheit, Charles DuBack, and Mimi Gross. The selection “pays tribute to artists and work shown in landmark historic exhibitions; as well as to connections and friendships among artists who were following their own paths, regardless of mainstream trends of the time.”
Whitehead Wins Pulitzer
Colson Whitehead won a second Pulitzer Prize in fiction on Monday for his novel "The Nickel Boys," praised by the Pulitzer board as "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity, and redemption."
Mr. Whitehead won the same award in 2017 for "The Underground Railroad." He has spent many summers in Sag Harbor, where his family has a house, and he chronicled some of those experiences in his 2009 book, "Sag Harbor."
Carl Bretzke at Grenning
Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor is opening an online show of paintings by Carl Bretzke with a virtual reception on Saturday from 6 to 7 p.m. The Zoom link for the opening is on the gallery’s website, as is a preview of the exhibition.
Classically trained, Mr. Bretzke paints primarily from nature. His choice of subject matter — humans, animals, and structures in desolate settings — blurs the line between feelings of intimacy and remoteness. The exhibition includes a number of images of Sag Harbor, among them “7-Eleven Sunset” and “Main Street Sag Harbor.”
