Four “Rain Paintings”
On Aug. 21, Lucien Smith, an artist who achieved both early success and some backlash before relocating to Montauk in 2015, created four of his signature “Rain Paintings” on an abandoned baseball field at Camp Hero in that hamlet. He died unexpectedly less than three weeks later at the age of 37. Those four paintings can be seen in “Delay of Game,” which will open at the Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott with a reception on Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Nov. 23.
Smith began the series in 2011, the year he graduated from Cooper Union, wielding a fire extinguisher filled with thinned paint and spraying it across unprimed canvases. “The series moved quickly into the market,” according to the gallery, and “the speculation reversed as fast as it arrived.”
The show’s title refers to when a baseball game is halted and a tarp pulled across the field. Smith placed his own tarp on the field at Camp Hero, to catch the paint that fell.
Five of This World
“Of this World,” work by five local artists, will open Friday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and continue on Saturday from 10 to 6 and Sunday from 11 to 4.
Zoe Dehany has described her paintings as “geometric abstractions” that explore the intersections of sky and water, and water and land. A gynecologist, Dena Harris is also a painter who is drawn to weathered houses, worn surfaces, and architectural details. Susan Malfa is an artist and gardener whose work is inspired by the natural world.
Todd Liebler is an Emmy-nominated cinematographer who now shoots still photographs exclusively in both film and digital formats. Sabry Mohideen discovered clay after a career in finance, turning his attention to shaping it and making choices about surface and glaze.
On A.I. and Creativity
Barry Holden, an artist and architect who divides his time between SoHo and Sag Harbor, will be at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House on Saturday afternoon at 5 to talk about A.I. text-to-image software, examining its role as a tool for artistic expression. “My focus,” he said, “is not on how the software functions but on what it can do and how it has reshaped my own creative process.”
The presentation is free.
AbEx Tour at the Parrish
Kaitlin Halloran, the Parrish Art Museum’s associate curator and publications manager, will lead a tour of “Abstract Expressionism: The East End, 1940 to Today” on Friday at 3 p.m.
Drawn primarily from the museum’s collection, the exhibition includes not only work by many prominent Abstract Expressionists, among them James Brooks, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning, but also artists from the 1990s to the present, such as Claude Lawrence and the late Pat Steir and Mary Heilmann, who continued to pursue gestural painting.
Tickets are $30, $15 for resident benefits passholders, $10 for members’ guests, and free for members, students, and children.
