Six at Ashawagh Hall
“Six in the Mix,” an exhibition of work by Kirsten Benfield, Bo Parsons, Daniel Vernola, John Haubrich, Dorothy Kopelman, and Barbara Dilorenzo, will open Friday and run through Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, with a reception set for tomorrow from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Benfield, who moves between watercolor, oil painting, and monoprints, was influenced by her study with an Eastern calligraphy master. Dilorenzo’s watercolor landscapes are now moving toward abstraction, while abstraction allows Haubrich to create landscapes that are physical, rational responses to internal and external experiences.
Parsons, a sculptor, worked for both Donald Judd and John Chamberlain, helping construct the latter’s steel pieces, while Kopelman, an abstract painter, studied with Ad Reinhardt, Philip Pearlstein, and Jimmy Ernst. Vernola works in layered glazes to create optically vibrant abstract paintings.
Robert Storr at Madoo
“Strata,” a show of paintings by Robert Storr, is on view now through Aug. 2 at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack.
Made during the past two years, the geometric works continue the artist’s exploration of shape and color. While the linear paintings depict squares and rectangles, they are free of classical symmetrical references, according to Madoo. Working with Flashe, a vinyl paint on muslin-wrapped board, Storr creates a smooth surface and sharp edges that give the paintings a certain crispness.
Darius Yektai Solo
The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor opens its annual solo show of work by Darius Yektai with a reception Thursday evening from 6:30 to 8. The exhibition will continue through Aug. 16.
The show will include the artist’s three-dimensional water lily paintings and his abstract flower compositions, both of which are familiar to patrons of the gallery. It will also introduce his “Kasos” series, which follows a brunette female figure as she moves through the coastal scenery of that Greek island.
Clothesline Sale
Since its inception in 1946, the Clothesline Art Sale at Guild Hall has provided accessible art to the public while at the same time supporting its artists and Guild Hall itself via a 50-50 split of sales proceeds.
This year’s sale will be held on Saturday in the galleries and in front of the building, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. More than 300 artists enter each year, with prices ranging from $75 to $3,000.
Studio Visits
The Bridgehampton Museum has organized a tour on Saturday of the South Fork studios of Almond Zigmund, Bastienne Schmidt, Philippe Cheng, and Linda Miller. Led by Mary Dinaburg, an art adviser and museum board member, the tour will begin at 10 a.m. and include a picnic break midway through the day. Bag lunches have been recommended.
Using their own vehicles, attendees will meet at 10 at Zigmund’s studio at 2 Villa Avenue in East Hampton. The next stop, at 11:30, is the home of Cheng and Schmidt, at 414 Butter Lane in Bridgehampton. The final stop, at 1:30, is Miller’s studio at 2 Wild Cherry Lane on North Haven.
Tickets are $20, or $10 for members. Registration is on the museum’s website.
Exhibition Tour
Speaking of tours, Corinne Erni, the Parrish Art Museum’s chief curator of art and education, will lead a tour of its current exhibition “Sanford Biggers: Drift” on Friday at 3 p.m. The artist’s first solo museum show on the East End, it features new textile works, prints, indoor sculptures, and site-specific installations.
Tickets are $30, $15 for resident benefits passholders, $10 for members’ guests, and free for members, students, and children.
Group Show at Ezra Gallery
“Hineni,” a group exhibition organized by Allison Zuckerman, can be seen at the Ezra Gallery of the Hamptons in Sag Harbor through Aug. 20. The show is presented in collaboration with the artist Adam Cohen.
“I created ‘Hineni’ as a celebration of artists engaging openly and proudly with Jewish identity, and as an expression of cultural solidarity at a particularly meaningful moment,” Zuckerman said in an email.
“Hineni” is a Hebrew word meaning “Here I am.”
Photographs and Jewelry
The Stella Flame Gallery in Bridgehampton will open “The Sweet Brook Song,” an exhibition of work by Cecilia Paredes, with a reception Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Paredes, a Peruvian-born artist working in Philadelphia, creates photographs in which the body is both present and disappearing, as it is wrapped in fabric that extends seamlessly into the surrounding field.
Jewelry by Kartik Shah will also be on view.
