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The Art Scene 05.01.25

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 14:28
Darius Yektai’s “Double Still Life” will be on view at East Hampton’s Clinton Academy.

Fifty Hamptons Artists

It has been almost five years since Coco Myers, a journalist and curator, and Jaime Lopez, a photographer, joined forces to create “Hamptons Artists: The Current Wave,” which featured extensive layouts devoted to 48 East End artists.

While that book was self-published, a second volume, “Light, Sand, and Sea: Hamptons Artists and Their Studios,” is being published this month by Vendome Press, a New York publisher of art and illustrated books. Featuring close-up looks at 50 painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and mixed-media artists, in addition to photographs by Mr. Lopez and text by Ms. Myers, it has a foreword by Mónica Ramirez-Montagut, the director of the Parrish Art Museum.

To whet art lovers’ appetites, Ms. Myers has organized an exhibition featuring works by most of the artists in the book, set to open at noon on Saturday at Clinton Academy in East Hampton and run through May 26. A reception will be held on May 10 from 5 to 7 p.m.

A shipment of books is expected to arrive this week, and Ms. Myers plans to have them at the show for sale and signing. Copies will be on sale at various venues throughout the summer, and are also available from Amazon.com. Gallery hours are noon to 5, Thursday through Monday.

Living Sculptures

“Birds,” a solo exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Mamoun Nukumanu, will open at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and continue through June 2.

A culmination of the artist’s residency at the gallery, which began in March 2024, the show features his living sculptures, which have been growing outside the gallery over the past year, going dormant during the winter, and re-budding this spring as he repositions and maneuvers each work.

Mr. Nukumanu is an earth-based interdisciplinary artist who weaves living tapestries that entangle trees, birds, bees, and people across scales. His approach emphasizes harvesting and organizing local materials into organic scaffolds that guide trees.

Water Scenes and Star Trails

An exhibition of black-and-white and color photographs by Anthony Lombardo is at the Southampton Cultural Center through May 18. A reception is set for Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

Mr. Lombardo has been a professional photographer since 1977, and the work in the exhibition is in part homage to an early mentor, Pirkle Jones, a notable West Coast landscape photographer.

One group of images consists of dramatic black-and-white water scenes of East End bays and ocean, including a panoramic view of Ponquogue Bridge in Hampton Bays. A second group of color photographs is based on the cosmos, with nighttime images of the Milky Way and star trails over local landscapes, one of which features the Horton Point Lighthouse in Southold.

 

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