Two at the Cultural Center
“Personal Infra-Structure III,” an exhibition of paintings by Anna Lise Jensen and Lester Johnson, will open at the Southampton Cultural Center with a reception on Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 and continue through May 1.
Ms. Jensen, who organized the show, will show 10 new works from her “New Suns for New Seasons” series. She manipulates oil paint to create textured surfaces, and several of the paintings from the series were made at Far Pond in Shinnecock Hills, where she has spent time since 2006.
Johnson, who died in 2010, shared a studio with Larry Rivers in New York City in 1947 and built his house in Springs in 1955, where he stayed during summers while teaching at Yale. He moved to Southampton in 2006. While he was voted into the Eighth Street Club, the famous gathering place of the Abstract Expressionists, and was influenced by their painterly techniques, the subject of much of his work is the human figure.
Ceramics Workshop
Handbuilding Ceramics With Hilary Helfant, a six-session workshop starting Wednesday morning at 10 at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House, will continue weekly through May 6.
Ms. Helfant studied painting, art history, and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College. After living and exhibiting in New York City for 12 years, she moved to the East End and has been here ever since. It was teaching children in kindergarten through eighth grade that brought her back to working with clay. Her current sculptures explore the patterns in natural forms without replicating them.
In the three-hour classes, participants will develop foundational hand-building techniques, including pinch pots, coil, and slab methods, after which they will make their own functional tableware, vessels, tiles, and sculpture.
The $180 cost includes all materials, two pounds of clay, and the firing of the first project.
Artists in Conversation
As part of a group show called “Connections” at Dan Welden’s studio-gallery, Beth Barry, Cynthia DiGiacomo, Laurie Hall, John Haubrich, and Charlene Ortiz will be on hand with Mr. Welden on Sunday at 2 p.m. to discuss how art draws people together as a community and adds color and light during dark times.
The studio is at 1649 Millstone Road in Noyac. Appointments to see the show, which is on view through April 19, can be made by emailing Andrea Sher, the curator, at [email protected].
Harper’s Reach Expands
In addition to its East Hampton location, Harper’s Gallery has expanded in recent years to include Harper Levine’s Upper East Side apartment and two spaces in Chelsea.
On Monday the gallery will open Harper’s Bangkok, its first international location, with “Lost and Found,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Joel Mesler, a former art dealer, collector, and archivist. Mr. Mesler, who moved to East Hampton in 2017, had a one-person show at Guild Hall last summer.
The gallery will occupy a street-facing space at Siam Patumwan House, a new business and cultural complex in central Bangkok. “It is an honor to play a small role in Bangkok’s astonishing evolution as a world-class destination for art and culture,” Mr. Levine, the gallery’s founder and owner, said. He expressed his gratitude to Prakasit (Pat) Phornprapha, his Thai partner, “whose vision and support helped make Harper’s Bangkok possible.”
