Artist Talk in Springs
As part of its ongoing Garden of Friends exhibition, the Leiber Collection in Springs will host a talk with the artists Bastienne Schmidt and Philippe Cheng on Sunday afternoon at 4.
Ms. Schmidt and Mr. Cheng, who have been integral to the series since it began six years ago, will discuss the development of their work over the past several years, including their creative processes and the role of place and light in their art.
On Animal Imagery
In conjunction with “The Ark,” the current exhibition at The Church, “Spider Couple: A Psychoanalysis of Animal Imagery in Louise Bourgeois’s Work,” a conversation between Philip Larratt-Smith and Jamieson Webster, will take place at the Sag Harbor venue on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Mr. Larratt-Smith, a writer and curator of the Easton Foundation, which administers Bourgeois’s legacy, and Ms.
Webster, a psychoanalyst who has published work on Bourgeois, will examine “Spider Couple,” the artist’s 12-foot sculpture featured in the exhibition.
Tickets are $15, $10 for members.
Weaving and Flowers
“Forever, For Now,” a show of paintings by Rose Cameron, opens Thursday at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
The painting practice of Ms. Cameron, who lived in the Philippines until the age of 12, centers on two motifs: basket-weaving patterns and abstracted floral forms.
As she layers paint, the artist often erases her original imagery, leaving behind only outlines or faint traces. The process is a dialectic between revealing and concealing, as the act of painting brings forth memories while at the same time partially covering the layers inspired by those memories.
The exhibition will continue through June.
The Automobile as Art
Visitors to the Parrish Art Museum’s outdoor areas will encounter three classic car recreations from England’s Hedley Studios.
Hedley is the only studio globally authorized and licensed by Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti, and Ferrari to recreate their most iconic vintage cars. Handcrafted, the cars are produced at 66 to 85 percent scale, and all are powered by electric propulsion. The three models on view are the Bugatti Baby, a reincarnation of the Bugatti Type 35; the Aston Martin DB5 J, a version of the 1963 cabriolet of James Bond fame, and the Ferrari Testa Rossa J, a recreation of the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa from 1957.
Portions of proceeds from car sales resulting from the exhibition, which will run through Aug. 23, will be donated to the museum.
Outdoor Sculpture
The second installment of “Organic Abstraction: Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture” will open at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m., and run through Oct. 7.
Organized by Cheryl Sokolow of C Fine Art, the exhibition focuses on large-scale works by artists working within a formalist, non-narrative framework. The exhibiting artists are Alex Barrett, Bill Barrett, Kevin Barrett, John Clement, Matt Devine, Carole Eisner, Michael Enn Sirvet, Jerelyn Hanrahan, Jane Manus, Norman Mooney, and Joel Perlman.
Blue-Chip Artists
BlackBook, an arts and culture publisher and media company, has opened a gallery space at 245 County Road 39 in Southampton.
On view through September is “Mother Nature in the Bardo,” an exhibition of artwork by 100 established artists, among them Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Robert Longo, John Chamberlain, Alexander Calder, and Lucian Freud, to name only a few.
A corresponding art book with the same title features forewords by the curators Klaus Biesenbach and Lucia Pietroiusti.
Portions of art sales from the exhibition will be donated to UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report. All proceeds from sales of the book will also be donated.
Plein-Air Painting
Barbara Thomas, an artist and peripatetic educator, has five classes coming up in the next two weeks, starting Thursday afternoon at 3 with Plein-Air Garden Painting at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton. Registration is at peconiclandtrust.org.
Friday at 10 a.m. she will be at Third House in Montauk for a plein-air painting class, with signup via email to [email protected]. From there she heads to East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve for Evening Painting in the Gardens at 5 p.m. Registration is on the LongHouse website.
Ms. Thomas will lead a two-day intensive acrylic painting class at Golden Eagle Art in East Hampton Wednesday and next Thursday, from 10:30 to 1:30 both days. Signup is at goldeneagleart.com.
She will return to LongHouse on Friday, July 25, at 10 a.m., for Art in the Garden.
