Sandell and Solow at Ashawagh
"A Field Guide to Florence," an exhibition of work by Scott Sandell and Peter Solow, will open Saturday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain open on Sunday until late afternoon.
During the winter of 2024, both artists went to Italy, where they had a weeklong conversation about making art, Florence, and how such a trip might influence an artist's work.
Mr. Sandell noted that their work is a study in contrasts. Mr. Solow's paintings and mixed-media works, which often incorporate photographs, are figurative, while Mr. Sandell's work is abstract and based in printmaking and papermaking.
The show represents each artist's singular vision of Florence, said Mr. Solow, but also a reflection of their predilections, passions, and past experience.
Three Painters at Tripoli
"Rising Tides," paintings by Felix Bonilla Gerena, Ivan Girona, and Melanie Luna, can be seen at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott through Nov. 24.
Mr. Gerena's work features island characters cavorting in lush beach scenes of his Puerto Rican homeland. Mr. Girona also hails from Puerto Rico, but his surrealistic and abstract paintings seem to come from another dimension, where time and space bend.
Ms. Luna, who was born in the Dominican Republic, draws inspiration for her portraits from her ancient female cave painting ancestors and hyperrealist 21st-century painters, according to the gallery.
Tripoli Patterson, with a perspective from the '80s and a father who was born on the Caribbean shore of Costa Rica, says, "Here we celebrate artists who tap into their subconscious beings, connecting to all, past, present, and future, like mycelium."
Illuminating James Howell
In connection with its current exhibition "Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962-2014," the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a talk at 7 p.m. on Friday by Jason Rosenfeld, a professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College, who will share his research on the artist.
Over the course of his career, Howell created paintings, prints, and drawings that explore the subtlety and vast tonal range of the color gray, as well as its relationship to light and the perception of space.
Tickets are $20, $18 for senior citizens, $10 for members' guests, free for members, resident benefits passholders, students, and children.
Joe Overstreet Survey in NoHo
"Joe Overstreet: To the North Star," a survey of the late artist's work, is at the Eric Firestone Gallery, 40 Great Jones Street in NoHo, through Jan. 10.
Overstreet (1933-2019) was an artist and activist who expanded the boundaries of painting through decades of experimentation while reflecting within his abstractions on the Black experience.
The exhibition includes work from across the artist's career, including shaped canvas paintings from the 1960s and "Flight Patterns" of the early '70s, unstretched canvases tethered with ropes to the wall, ceiling, and floor. Stretched canvases from the '90s, with ropes adorning their surfaces, are also on view, as are works on paper.
Spinning at the White Room
"Spin," a group exhibition, opens Friday at the White Room Gallery in East Hampton and will continue through Dec. 28. A reception and holiday party will be held on Dec. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m.
While "spin" is a familiar word in the political vocabulary, for Kat O'Neill and Andrea McCafferty, the gallery's owners, it is "a celebration of energy and a defiance of the inert." The works include Rock Therrien's spinning Charlie Brown and Taylor Smith's astronaut, which is painted on recycled floppy discs.
Other artists in the show include Pascal Guetta, Punk Me Tender, Artlord, Seek One, Brad Beyer, Gregory Goy, Jack Flo, SQRA, and Joseph Kraham.
Two at Lucore
"Moment of Motion," a show of work by Marilyn Church and David Slater, opens Thursday at the Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk and will run through Dec. 2. A reception will be held Nov. 15 from 4 to 7 p.m.
The exhibition brings together two East End artists whose work approaches the figure and motion in strikingly different ways. Ms. Church is known for her evocative, abstract paintings that explore the psychological and emotional undercurrents of the human form.
Mr. Slater's compositions are drawn from memory, observation, and life itself. His work translates lived experience into compositions that balance narrative with painterly immediacy.
