Weekend Classes on the Barge
The Art Barge on Napeague has announced that it will offer Saturday and weekend classes during July and August for those whose schedules make it difficult to commit to an entire week. The decision reflects in part the wish of its founders, Mabel and Victor D’Amico, to make art accessible to all.
July’s courses include fundamentals of drawing with Linda Capello, watercolor weekend with Barbara Thomas, glass-fusing weekend with Teresa Lawler, and glass-fusing jewelry with Idee Simon. August’s classes have not yet been announced.
Docent-led tours of the D’Amico Studio and Archive on Lazy Point are conducted Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 11 a.m.
The place to register for all classes and the tours is damico-art.org.
Seidenfeld in Conversation
Mark Seidenfeld, an abstract painter whose work is on view at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Corwith Homestead Tractor Barn, 2368 Montauk Highway, will be there for a conversation with Elise Trucks, an art historian and writer, on Friday at 6 p.m. The barn is a newly renovated contemporary exhibition space.
Seidenfeld’s work investigates structure, gesture, and spatial depth, says the museum, which characterized it as “dreamscapes shaped through layering, interruption, and revision.” His exhibition is on view through June 21.
Abstraction Then and Now
Elizabeth Neel, an abstract painter based in New York City and Springs, will be at BlackBook Art Gallery in Southampton on Saturday at 5 p.m. for a conversation with Evanly Schindler, the gallery’s founder and artistic director.
Neel’s work is included in the gallery’s current exhibition “The Lost Generation: Then and Now,” which includes paintings by members of the New York School, among them Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell, as well as contemporary practitioners whose work reflects the influence of Abstract Expressionism, including Neel, Julie Mehretu, and Christopher Wool.
The conversation will illuminate Neel’s practice, interests, and influences, as well as issues that inform contemporary abstract art.
Four at Romany Kramoris
An exhibition of work by Muriel Hanson Falborn, Robert Lohman, Paula Raflo, and Ghilia Lipman-Wulf opens Thursday at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor and will continue through July 2. A reception is set for Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
An artist and landscape designer, Falborn creates paintings that celebrate the natural world, especially flowers and water. Lohman’s Turner-inspired paintings reflect a sensitivity to light, atmosphere, and color.
Raflo, who has a background in theater, works in pastels, charcoal, acrylic, and mixed media to make works that explore memory, intuition, and the inner life. Lipman-Wulf’s Neo-Expressionist paintings move between the semi-abstract and the botanical.
Earthly Delights in Gansett
ARC Fine Art has reopened for the season and is now located at Charlie and Sons, 26 Montauk Highway in Amagansett. “Garden of Earthly Delights,” on view through July 12, features paintings, photographs, prints, works on paper, and sculpture celebrating the natural world.
Among the more than 20 exhibiting artists are Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Perry Burns, Idoline Duke, Janet Jennings, Ugo Rondinone, Bastienne Schmidt, Barbara Thomas, and Mark Wilson.
Burns and Duke will be at the gallery for a conversation Friday at 5 p.m.
