Paper as the Star
"Paperworks," an exhibition of work by five artists who change that most quotidian of materials, will open Friday at the Women's Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., and continue through Nov. 1. The exhibiting artists are Diane Love, Linda Miller, Regina Sender Levin, Janice Stanton, and Ellen Wiener. While their approaches differ, what connects them is paper's susceptibility to transformation without entirely losing its fundamental qualities.
Hanging Lights
"Holding Pattern, Holding Fast," a show of new hanging light sculptures by Elias Hansen, can be seen at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through Aug. 31. Hansen is known for combining traditional glassblowing techniques with found materials, electrical components, hardware, and hand-built supports. His works often reveal their own making, leaving straps, chains, wiring, clips, and fasteners to remain visible as essential elements rather than concealed components.
Outliers at Keyes Art
Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will open "Rewritten Histories," a show of work by Peter McGough and Clintel Steed, with a reception on Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It will run through Sept. 1. Both artists work outside of current art market trends, according to the gallery.
Steed's thickly impastoed paintings attempt to reconcile Rubens, Egyptian murals, and Black fatherhood. From 1980 to 1995, McGough lived in a house without electricity, making art with obsolete 19th-century methods. He continues to eschew digital techniques and mediums in favor of colored pencil drawings that call for obsessive handwork.
O'Leary in Conversation
In connection with its current exhibition, "Time Revisited," which includes work by Brian O'Leary and Loren Dunlap, the Bridgehampton Museum will host a conversation with O'Leary next Thursday at 5 p.m. at its Nathaniel Rogers House. He will be joined by Jon Corzine, former governor of New Jersey, and Jay Lohmann, an artist and writer, both of whom were friends of the late Dunlap. Lana Jokel, the exhibition's curator, will moderate the talk.
Painters in Sagaponack
Paintings by Anahi DeCanio and Chris Lucore can be seen at the Sagaponack studio and gallery of the sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp starting Friday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
"First There Was Light" brings the paintings of DeCanio and Lucore into conversation with Bovenkamp's sculptures, paintings, and the architecture of the space itself, according to Lucore. DeCanio's abstractions balance expanses of light and open space with gestural passages, layered surfaces, and instances of concentrated color. Lucore's large-scale paintings feature interconnected lines, looping forms, saturated color, and intricate pathways.
The opening will be the best opportunity to see the work, but appointments can be made for Sunday or Monday by emailing [email protected]. More open hours might be available going forward.
Observation of Style
For one week, from Monday through Aug. 31, the painter Rebecca Moses will transform the Southampton Arts Center with "The Art of Observation," part exhibition, part working studio, and part conversation.
Moses, the venue's new artist in residence, moves between fashion design, illustration, and fine art, all of which inform her portraits. Throughout the week she will paint in public. At the center of the residency is "I Think You Are Beautiful Women When You Are Bored," 11 new portraits of women dressed predominantly in black and accessorized with jewelry, eyewear, and cigarettes.
A conversation among Moses, Ralph Pucci, her gallerist, and Stefano Tonchi, former editor in chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, will happen on Friday, Aug. 28, at 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition Tour
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will offer a tour of its exhibition "Tony Bechara: An Artist of Many Worlds" Friday at 3 p.m. with Monica Ramirez-Montagut, the museum's executive director, and Kaitlin Halloran, its associate curator and publications manger. Tickets are $30, $15 for resident benefits passholders, $10 for members' guests, and free for members, students, and children.
Fenske at Grenning
The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Ben Fenske Thursday with a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The show will continue through Sept. 13. While Fenske typically spends several months a year on the East End, painting landscapes en plein air, with a birth of a new child this year he has stayed close to home in Tuscany, where he painted an entire body of East End landscapes from memory.
