“Living With Chamberlain”
In conjunction with its current exhibition “Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture,” Guild Hall will host a conversation with Alexandra Fairweather, the director of the John Chamberlain Estate and the artist’s stepdaughter, and two cultural entrepreneurs, Gabriela Palmieri and Yvonne Force, on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Moderated by Melanie Crader, the cultural center’s museum director and curator of visual arts, the discussion will focus on the intersection of art, design, and the impact of Chamberlain’s work. It coincides with the publication by Assouline of “Living With Chamberlain,” an exploration of the artist’s legacy with a foreword by Rick Owens and text by Julie Belcove.
Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members, $155.35 and $152.85 with a copy of the book.
Also at Guild Hall, from Friday through Sunday, daily from noon to 5, community members have been invited to contribute to Oscar Molina’s Artist Guestbook Canvas, a collaborative artwork that will evolve into a vibrant tapestry of voices, according to a release.
Mr. Molina is an acclaimed painter and sculptor who left war-torn El Salvador as a teenager and wound up as an artist and collector in Southampton. At the end of the summer his studio will auction the completed canvas to benefit the CUBO Project in El Salvador, which supports education in underserved communities.
David Geiser Retrospective
A retrospective exhibition of work by David Geiser (1948-2020), organized by his son Jake Ruehl, will be at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from Friday through Sunday. A reception, with music by Mark Schiavoni and friends, is set for Saturday at 6 p.m.
The show includes works ranging in date from the 1970s to 2020, “pretty much as many as I have room for,” said Mr. Ruehl. Digital copies of the artist’s 25 notebooks, created over the course of his career, will be available at the show.
“This has been a cathartic experience five years since his passing,” said Mr. Ruehl. “A way to reconnect with my dad.”
Two Groups in Montauk
An exhibition of work by members of the Wednesday Group of Plein-Air Painters and water+color+works opens Thursday at the Depot Art Gallery in Montauk and will run through June 30. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Wednesday Group, formed about 15 years ago by Frank Sofo and Gene Samuelson, met once a week to paint outdoors on the East End. Featured in the show are Agnes Bristel-Soethoudt, Johanna Caleca, Teresa Lawler, Marie Lombardi, Jean Mahoney, Kathy Milliken, Deborah Palmer, Bob Sullivan, Aurelio Torres, Maureen Travers, and Diane White.
Unofficially dubbed the Tuesday Group, water+color+works meets weekly to inspire each other and create works on paper. The show includes work by Kirsten Benfield, Nancy Brody, Barbara DiLorenzo, Laurie Hall, Beth Meredith, Janet Rojas, Jerry Schwabe, and Carol Sigler.
Exhibition Tour
Scout Hutchinson, the Parrish Art Museum’s associate curator of exhibitions, will conduct a tour of “Shirin Neshat: Born of Fire” on Friday at 1 p.m.
“Born of Fire,” the artist’s first museum exhibition in the New York area in over 20 years, features focused installations of four significant bodies of work: “Women of Allah” (1993-97), “The Book of Kings” (2012), “Land of Dreams” (2019), and “The Fury” (2022-23).
Tickets are $30, $24 for senior citizens, $12 for members’ guests, and free for members, resident benefits passholders, students, and children.
Hunt Slonem Solo
A solo show of paintings by Hunt Slonem opens Thursday at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. It will continue through July 13.
“My sources of inspiration have never changed,” Mr. Slonem told an interviewer in 2018. “It’s always nature and spirit.”
The exhibition includes a wide range of subjects, among them large canvases featuring repeated images of birds, bunnies, and butterflies, transformed into mesmerizing patterns, said the gallery. Mr. Slonem’s approach to his subjects, combined with his virtuosic handling of paint, results in “hypnotic compositions that are aesthetically pleasing and critically engaging.”
A Feminist History
“Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring,” an immersive installation by Tiffany Shlain, is now on view in the courtyard of the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton through July 31. A reception and artist’s talk will take place Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.
In the work, Ms. Shlain has transformed a reclaimed cross-section of a deodar cedar tree into a sculptural timeline that traces pivotal moments in feminist history. Dates have been burned into the wood’s rings, culminating in the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“In this work I wanted to give a longer perspective on where we stand and show the back-and-forth of progress, and how we must keep pushing for the world we want,” Ms. Shlain has said.
The piece was previously installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.
