New Gallery in Springs
Gallery 851, an independent artist-run collective, is rising from the metaphorical ashes of the Fireplace Project at 851 Springs-Fireplace Road. Founded by Alexander Reinwald, an artist and automobile design and restoration specialist, it will open next Thursday with “Out of the Woods,” a group show, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
The opening exhibition will include work by Christian Little, Chuck Manion, Mica Marder, Hildy Maze, Kate Salke, Jonathan Shlafer, Aurelio Torres, JJ Veronis, and Nick Weber.
The gallery will host shows by emerging, mid-career, and established artists as well as work by historically significant artists in cooperation with their estates. Artist talks, film previews, technical demonstrations, and creative workshops are also planned.
The show will run through July 20.
“Panorama” at Halsey McKay
“Panorama,” an exhibition of paintings by Steven Cox, is now on view at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through July 13.
For more than a decade, Cox has developed a method in which thick deposits of oil paint are pressed onto canvas through sheets of plastic, the surface becoming less a support for an image than a site of accumulation, resistance, and record, says the gallery.
“In my paintings I try to capture the essence of a surface seen outside,” the artist has said. “Peeling paint, damaged walls, rough textures. I want to poetically reinterpret those surfaces.” The paintings relate not only to man-made surfaces but also to topography, taking terrain as a structural principle.
Photos at Ashawagh Hall
Work by 27 members of the East End Photographers Group will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs Friday through Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition includes a variety of genres, including aerial, black-and-white, color, fine art, cityscape, and street photography.
On Sunday from 2 to 4, David M. Bradshaw, Ann Brandeis, Jody Cukier, Steve Dreyer, Gerry Giliberti, Charlie Grubb, Janis Hurley, Bruce Mermelstein, Harold Naideau, and Gordian Raacke will talk about their work.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday 10 to 5.
Natural and Built Environs
The Church, in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, will host a conversation with Lucy Raven and Alan Ruiz, two artists whose work explores space, time, and place, on Sunday at noon. Introduced by Humberto Moro, deputy director of programs at Dia, the discussion coincides with two exhibitions that reflect evolution over time: “This Land: Considering the American Landscape,” which opened at the Sag Harbor cultural center on Saturday, and “De sol a sol,” set to open tomorrow at Dia Bridgehampton.
Raven, whose “Deposition, Dam Breach, 21” is on view at The Church, examines forces of pressure, industry, and material transformation that mark the nation’s Western landscape. Ruiz focuses on built environments and the social relations that shape them. For his show at Dia, he presents an architecturally scaled sculptural intervention alongside other new works.
After the discussion, the artists will be joined by Donna De Salvo and Seph Rodney, the curators of “This Land,” for a question-and-answer session. Tickets are $10, $5 for members.
Sean Scully in Conversation
Sean Scully, a renowned abstract artist, and Karen Wilkin, a New York-based curator and critic, will have a conversation at LongHouse Reserve on Sunday morning at 11 in conjunction with the installation there of Scully’s “48,” a 20-foot-tall colored stack sculpture.
Scully and Wilkin will delve into his decades-long career, exploring the influence of landscape, rhythms of nature, and coastal light on his practice, from his transformative 1982 residency at the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk to his recent work. After the talk, guests can view “48” in company with the artist.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members.
Art in the Park
The fourth annual East Hampton Art Affair, an initiative of the Rotary Club of East Hampton, will return to Herrick Park this weekend, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5. The juried exhibition, which is free to visit, features artwork by both local and visiting artists, including sculpture, paintings, jewelry, photography, glasswork, and ceramics.
Featured local artists are Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix, glass artists from East Hampton, whose original glass works are defined by vibrant colors and simple organic forms. Their work, influenced by classic Italian glassblowing, world textiles, and urban graffiti, has been shown locally at LongHouse Reserve and Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott.
Skill Sharing in Gansett
Hesse Flatow, an art gallery located in TriBeCa, has maintained a seasonal outpost here since 2016. The gallery has announced an afternoon of art, skill sharing, and conversation with its 2026 summer artists in residence, Mason Owens and Bix Archer, on Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. at its residency studio here, 60 Oak Lane in Amagansett.
The open studio event offers an opportunity to engage directly with the artists and gain insight into their creative processes. Owens will provide instruction on the techniques of encaustic painting, which he uses to capture light and atmosphere with precision. Archer will illuminate her personal approach to plein-air painting, drawing on her experience, which includes a workshop she conducted at the Museum of Modern Art.
Guests can participate in a plein-air skill session, and food and drinks will be provided.
Hunt Slonem Solo
The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor opens its third annual Hunt Slonem solo show Thursday, with a reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. It will run through July 19.
The exhibition includes various configurations of Slonem’s iconic rabbits, representing the subject in various colors, sizes, and compositions. Its largest painting, however, features owls rather than bunnies, with mixed species emerging from a silver ground that glows, says the gallery, “like pooled moonlight.”
Other departures are a painting of white butterflies and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Nomad Fair Debuts
Nomad, an art fair featuring art, architecture, and design, is launching its first edition in this country from tomorrow through Sunday at the Watermill Center. The fair will feature an international selection of galleries, designers, and artists, and a program of talks and special events.
Local participants include the Eric Firestone Gallery; a selection of works by Robert Wilson, founder of the Watermill Center, organized by Noah Khoshbin, the center’s curator; Sydney Albertini, whose work will be shown by Sisley Paris, and, from Southampton, JK Art and Design Projects and Todd Merrill Studio.
Open hours are Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 11 to 5. Other Nomad fairs have taken place in Abu Dhabi and St. Moritz.
