Dash Paintings at Madoo
“Looking Back,” a new exhibition of paintings by Robert Dash, is now on view through May 23 in the summer studio at Sagaponack’s Madoo Conservancy, which Dash created in 1967. The show features groups of paintings inspired by works created earlier in his career.
An untitled painting from 1960, for example, influenced a series of works painted in 1988-99. Seeing the earlier work makes the late ’80s paintings, on canvas and paper, more identifiable.
Dash’s Sagg Main series from 2007 was inspired by an unfinished 1972 print that he revisited and painted over. That led to a series of 11 major paintings depicting Sagg Main Street.
Furniture and Antiques
As it prepares to open an outpost in New York City, Shooster Arts and Literature, on Madison Street in Sag Harbor, is holding an estate sale of museum-quality furniture by modern masters, and 18th and 19th-century antiques.
The sale includes works by the French artists Jean Prouvé, Guy Rey-Millet, and Le Corbusier. Also represented are Gerrit Rietveld, an icon of the De Stijl movement; Mario Botta, a Swiss postmodernist; Willy Rizzo, a photographer and designer; Uno Kristiansson, a midcentury Swedish craftsman, and Shiro Kuramata, one of Japan’s most important 20th-century designers.
Exhibition Tour
An artist-led tour of “The Language of Surface: Paintings by Debbie Ma,” the current exhibition at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House, will take place on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Before the tour, Mary Dinaburg, a museum board member, will have a short conversation with Ms. Ma about her work and life as an artist. During the tour, the artist will offer insight into the development of her visual vocabulary, which blends geometric structures, textile-like patterns, and typographic shapes. Close attention to her paintings, says the museum, reveals subtle shifts in surface and depth that create a dynamic spatial experience.
