Mementos and Gardens
Two solo shows, “Cait Porter: What Stays With Me” and “An Hoang: Garden Poems,” can be seen at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through March 29.
The works in Ms. Porter’s show center on intimate still lifes drawn from the artist’s apartment, including personal mementos, everyday objects, and traces of loss. Her subjects include photographs of loved ones who have died, inherited keepsakes, handmade objects from friends, and reminders of places that feel both distant and important.
In her small-scale paintings, Ms. Hoang focuses on subjects in the garden, evoking the natural world in verdant compositions situated between abstraction of time, memory, and such tangible phenomena as the weather and place. The paintings “come out of taking a moment to make more intimate observations of nature: of gardens, of flowers, of the changing seasons,” the artist has said.
Abstractions in Conversation
The Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton will open “Pathways,” an exhibition that explores abstraction as a shared principle and practice, with a reception Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Consisting of paintings, ceramics, and fiber, the works, by Deborah Luken, Joan Lurie, Jane Martin, Amy Genser, and Carol Hunt, share a fluid visual language in which forms, lines, and gestures seem to echo and overlap. Within the artworks, pathways emerge through swirling forms, directional lines, and rhythmic movement, offering, says the gallery, “subtle routes through each composition.”
The show will continue through April 12.
Human Emotion
“Truly, Madly, Deeply,” a group exhibition, will open at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and remain on view through March 8.
The show, which gives form to love, “one of the most influential human emotions,” according to the gallery, is anchored by five new paintings from Darius Yektai and figurative paintings by Daniela Astone.
