The Parrish Art Museum and the FLAG Art Foundation have joined forces on “Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain,” a two-part exhibition that considers material and conceptual engagements with the landscape. Part one will run through tomorrow at FLAG’s headquarters in Chelsea, while the second will open at the Parrish on Saturday and continue through Nov. 8.
The show in Water Mill focuses on formal explorations rooted in natural components. Working with such materials as minerals, fiber, and plant matter, the artists avoid pictorial depictions of the landscape, preferring abstraction as a way to explore personal and collective attachments to place. The result is not literal landscapes, “but meditations on memory, sensory experiences, and the layered histories of land,” according to the museum.
Dating from the 1990s to the present, the works include the gestural abstractions of Sonya Kelliher-Combs’s hide paintings, for which the artist shaves marks directly into animal furs from her homeland in Alaska. The geometric forms of Christine Howard Sandoval’s adobe mud drawings refer to colonial Spanish mission buildings in California.
Dan Cohen is represented by crushed flower petal paintings that evoke the allover compositions of midcentury Abstract Expressionism, while the sculptures of Wolfgang Laib, Delcy Morelos, and Meg Webster refer to Minimalism through the use of materials like milk, jute, and salt.
The title of the exhibition comes from a text-based work by Lawrence Weiner. Printed on vinyl and displayed on the museum’s facade, the work suggests dramatic natural forms through the function of language.
The show also includes work by N. Dash, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Jonathan Sanchez Noa, Martin Puryear, Eric-Paul Riege, Michelle Stuart, and Martha Tuttle.
The two-part exhibition is curated by Jonathan Rider, FLAG’s director, and Scout Hutchinson, the FLAG Art Foundation associate curator of contemporary art at the Parrish, with Caroline Cassidy, FLAG’s deputy director.
“Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” is the second iteration of a new curatorial partnership between FLAG and the Parrish. Between 2026 and 2030, the two organizations will collaborate on three exhibitions annually across two adjoining galleries at the museum. This partnership builds on the recent “Fresh Paint” collaboration, a rotating series of single-artwork shows at the Parrish that began in June 2024.
