“Echoes of Matisse”
The Drawing Room in East Hampton will reopen Friday with “Echoes of Matisse: Pattern, Line, and Form,” an intergenerational group show of work by Jack Ceglic, Elisabeth Kley, Mark Heming, Maira Kalman, Henri Matisse, Saul Steinberg, Claire Watson, and Jack Youngerman.
The show draws attention to formal affinities between Matisse’s iconic use of pattern, sensuous line, and bold abstracted shapes, and the work of the other artists.
Four rarely seen Matisse etchings offer context for works by Ceglic, Kalman, Kley, Heming, and Steinberg, while his late cutouts set a precedent for Watson’s canvas constructions and Youngerman’s paintings on paper.
The show will continue through June 15.
Tim Tibus Solo
“Live Forever,” a solo show of paintings by Timothy Tibus, opens Thursday at the Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk and will run through April 28. A reception will happen Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Centered around a group of large, bold abstractions made between 1986 and 1989, the show brings together work that carried both immediacy and lasting presence, says the gallery. A collection of smaller works and studies offers additional insight into Tibus’s process, instincts, and visual vocabulary.
A Springs resident who died in 2024, Tibus worked as a studio assistant for Dan Christensen for many years. As for his own work, he showed in group exhibitions at Ashawagh Hall, Guild Hall, the Depot Art Gallery in Montauk, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Southampton Arts Center, among others.
Spiritual and Painterly
“Primavera,” which will open at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception Saturday from 5:30 to 7 p.m., brings together the work of Kristy Gordon and Hunt Slonem.
The show is anchored by its namesake, a painting measuring 50 by 87 inches, that reflects Ms. Gordon’s ongoing exploration of myth, transformation, and the sacred feminine. Dense with symbolism, “Primavera” features figures moving through a verdant forest, including three women dancing, a child skimming the surface of a brook, a pair of deer, and massive lilies.Mr. Slonem will be represented by his whimsical images of bunnies, birds, and flowers, which are chosen with reverence and intent, according to the gallery, adding that the two artists are linked by their devotion to the spiritual and the painterly.
The show will continue through April 28.
