Bluedorn's Tiny House
In conjunction with its current Road Show exhibition, “Scott Bluedorn: Bonac Blind,” the Parrish Art Museum is presenting a free live-streamed conversation with Mr. Bluedorn, Corinne Erni, the museum’s senior curator, and experts on preservation, housing, planning, and sustainability tomorrow at 5 p.m. The panel will address environmental protection and affordable housing on the East End.
Currently on view in the Parrish meadow, “Bonac Blind” was built by the artist from an existing duck blind. While it refers to traditional hunting, fishing, and farming, it has been repurposed with solar roof panels, solar batteries, a bed, an end table, a chair, and a wood-burning stove.
According to Mr. Bluedorn, the name also points to a population largely blind to Bonac culture and the problems it faces, especially the East End's shortage of affordable housing, which has set in motion an exodus of young people, including generations of Bonackers. The structure also reflects the current trend toward tiny homes that are sustainable, resilient, and adaptive.
Registration is required through the museum’s website.
At Harper’s Apartment
“Takin’ the Riverboat Out on Snake Lake,” a show of 13 oil-stick paintings by Eliot Greenwald, opens today at Harper’s Apartment, 51 East 74th Street in Manhattan. It will remain on view through Feb. 13.
Each painting depicts a car in the night, moving toward the viewer between two hills and beneath twin planets, headlights blazing like illuminated rivers. Though simple and stylized in composition, the paintings suggest a mysterious, even foreboding narrative. “Greenwald’s vernacular is condensed and refined to go against the grain of the conventional visual idioms of landscape painting,” says a release.
'Down and Dirty' in Georgia
“Down and Dirty,” an exhibition of work by Bonnie Rychlak, who lives and works in Springs, and Jeanne Silverthorne, a sculptor from New York City, will open tomorrow at the Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia in Athens. It will be on view through Feb. 26.
Both artists look to everyday objects for inspiration, “objects that are deflated or are incongruously repurposed or converted to the ‘dark side’ of the non-functional,” according to the gallery. Ms. Rychlak’s materials include cast resin, cast glass, beeswax, rubber, textured glass, metal, and mirrors, among others. Cast wax drains or grates are a recurring motif, suggesting deep space beneath a deceptively ironclad barrier.
