De Kooning and Lawrence
Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will open “Under the Influence: Willem de Kooning and Claude Lawrence” with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. It will run through Aug. 6.
“Claude Lawrence paints like a jazz musician plays,” according to an essay by Lucas F. Natali, who has 25 years of experience working in galleries and museums. “He often cites improvisation as his method.” While Lawrence absorbed de Kooning’s belief that a line can be both brutal and tender, he doesn’t imitate him.
The connection is that “both artists understood that a painting records duration. De Kooning’s surfaces show months of attack and retreat.” For Lawrence, repetition lets him know when to stop.
Artist Talk
Anastasia Samoylova, who has multiple photographs in “This Land: Considering the American Landscape” at The Church, will be at the Sag Harbor cultural center for a conversation with Seph Rodney, the show’s co-curator, on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Samoylova is known for work that catches the beauty of location while juxtaposing it with the consequences of climate change, gentrification, and political extremism. She and Rodney will discuss the work in the show, her process, and her artistic vision. A period for questions will follow their conversation.
Tickets are $10, $5 for members.
Ellsworth Kelly’s Legacy
In connection with its current exhibition “Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades,” the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a panel discussion on his artistic legacy Friday at 6 p.m.
The conversation will feature three artists, Sarah Crowner, Sam Moyer, and Sara VanDerBeek, with Ian Berry, the executive director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, and Scout Hutchinson, the museum’s FLAG Art Foundation associate curator of contemporary art, as moderators.
Tickets are $30, $25 for members’ guests, and free for members, resident benefits passholders, students, and children.
East End Icons at the Fair
The Shamnoski Gallery, which is based on the Upper East Side, has a booth this weekend at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair in Southampton. As a result of its focus on Abstract Expressionism and related movements, it will feature works by such East End artists as Herman Cherry, William Tarr, Jimmy Ernst, James Brooks, Charlotte Park, Dan Christensen, William King, Connie Fox, Wilfred Zogbaum, and Perle Fine.
Abstraction in Amagansett
Hesse Flatow, a TriBeCa gallery, has had a summer outpost on Schellinger Road in Amagansett for 10 years. Its 2026 season will open on Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. with “Splash,” a large exhibition organized in collaboration with Los Angeles’s Night Gallery.
The show, which will continue through Aug. 8, asks what it means to be an abstract artist now, who inherits that legacy, who extends it, and on whose terms, with 22 artists who work in a range of approaches to abstraction. They come from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
The gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 and by appointment through [email protected].
Haim Mizrahi Solo
“Don’t You Dare,” a show of almost 40 works by Haim Mizrahi, including a dozen new paintings, will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs from Friday through Sunday. A reception will take place Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m., and an open poetry reading will happen Sunday at 3:30.
The artist has said that his intention, through Abstract Expressionism with touches of Surrealism, is to navigate the interplay between the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown.
“Sure Enough,” the second part of a career survey, will be up from Friday, July 17, through July 19.
Three in the Garden
The Leiber Collection in Springs, in conjunction with its current exhibition “Garden of Friends: Ode to the Sea,” will host talks by Philippe Cheng, Donna Green, and Bastienne Schmidt on Sunday afternoon at 3.
Cheng’s site-specific installations respond to the ever-changing relationship among sky, water, landscape, and light. Green’s sculptural assemblage is constructed from rope, wire, shackles, shells, seagull feathers, and other objects found on the shoreline. Schmidt’s works explore themes of navigation, protection, and environmental interconnectedness.
Oscar Molina on Film
The Southampton Arts Center will host a screening of “Journey of Hope: The Art of Oscar Molina,” a 45-minute documentary produced and directed by Lana Jokel, on Sunday at 6 p.m.
Jokel, who began her film career at the Leacock-Pennebaker production company, has since 1973 produced and directed more than 20 documentaries, including films on Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Larry Rivers, Strong-Cuevas, Keith Sonnier, Hal Buckner, and Alice Hope.
Molina’s work is discussed elsewhere in this section, in an article on the upcoming exhibition at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.
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This article has been modified from the print edition because the information about Shamnoski Gallery was received after the paper went to press.
