“Billy Sullivan: Flowers and Birds,” an exhibition of 10 paintings and drawings, most of them created during the past year, is on view at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack through Aug. 14.
Mr. Sullivan has described his work as “basically a diary of my life,” and the recent works include “Oysters, Puerto Escondido,” which captures a scene from March 2020, during the artist’s last trip to Mexico with an old friend before the lockdown.
Six floral paintings and pastels from 2021 are more domestic, among them “Easter Morning,” an interior that includes a large painting in the background, and a breakfast setting and vase of tulips that imply the unseen presence of a guest. “Bob’s Vase,” a pastel from 2020, depicts a bulging glass vessel with verdigris brass handles from the collection of Robert Dash, Madoo’s founder.
The exhibition’s oldest and largest work, “Klaus in Tulum” from 2003, catches Mr. Sullivan’s late husband naked in bed beneath a canopy of mosquito netting but almost upstaged by a table and pineapple crown in the foreground.
Also at Madoo, a reception and book signing for Christophe von Hohenberg’s “The White Album of the Hamptons” will be held Friday evening from 6 to 8.
Mr. von Hohenberg’s black-and-white photographs of East End beaches manipulate light and exposure to deliberately bleach out details and figures, as if seen while squinting against the glare of the sun.
Published in May by G Editions, the book has a foreword by Jay McInerney.
