Benefit for Duck Creek
“Love Where You Live,” the annual art sale and benefit for the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs, will open there on Saturday and run through next Thursday.
The weeklong show will feature 10-by-10-inch artworks created by over 60 local artists and Duck Creek alumni. Throughout the week, visitors can place silent bids on the art before bidding closes during the benefit celebration next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. Bids start at $200.
The party will feature passed hors d’oeuvres by East Hampton Kitchen along with beverages from Springs Brewery, East Hampton Wines and Liquors, and Sagaponack Distillery. Tickets start at $100.
The exhibition will be open every day through next Thursday from 2 to 6 p.m.
Joe Zucker’s “Brushstrokes”
“Joe Zucker: Brushstrokes” can be seen at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs through Sept. 12. The works are industrial mops soaked in a variety of colors of house paint — which has dried — and hung on the wall.
Zucker produced a thousand of the pieces, each of which is laden with paint that is frozen in a moment of kinetic potential, “ready to transfer physical materials, and the artist’s unique vision, onto the canvas,” according to the gallery. The works represent a celebration of process, product, and idea.
Not Your Usual Landscapes
A show of paintings by Max Jansons and Joani Tremblay will open at Harper’s Gallery in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue through Sept. 12.
In Jansons’s body of work, the floral arrangements appear to float against aerial backdrops far above the earth, and the vases become miniature landscapes of their own, according to the gallery.
Tremblay has said, “The flowers aren’t botanical studies, and the landscapes aren’t descriptions of specific locations. They’re fragments of memory, observation, and imagination.”
Group Show at Tripoli
“Holy Mary,” a group exhibition, will open at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott on Saturday with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. The show will run through Sept. 8.
The exhibiting artists are Katherine Bradford, Katherine Bernhardt, Ann Craven, Salvita De Corte, Sally Egbert, Lola Montes, Sabra Moon Elliot, Naomi Samara, Pat Steir, Mary Weatherford, and Lucy Winton.
Beauty and Adornment
“Sailing to Byzantium,” a show of paintings by Ellen Ball, opens Thursday at J. Mackey Gallery in East Hampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will continue through Aug. 22.
Ball’s work explores how women construct and perform an identity through beauty, adornment, and self-expression. Her contemporary figures draw from the traditions of Byzantine icons and Renaissance portraiture. The paintings are inspired in part by W.B. Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium.”
Open Call
October is Banned Book Month, and Karyn Mannix has issued an open call for submissions to the second annual Banned Book Project exhibition, which will open in October at the East Hampton Library and the Springs Library.
Artists have been invited to explore and interpret the theme without necessarily doing so in a literal manner.
The deadline for submissions of Sept. 21. More information is available from themannixproject.com or by emailing [email protected].
Walking the Rails
“Still Rolling,” a solo exhibition featuring new train sculptures, paintings, and prints by Tim Conlon, an artist based in Los Angeles, opens Thursday at Slattery Gallery in Southampton and will remain on view through Aug. 31.
Rendered primarily with spray paint, Conlon’s paintings feature railroad logos, weathered steel, oxidized surfaces, and layers of graffiti, the result of countless hours spent walking rail lines and documenting freight cars belonging to railroad companies that have since disappeared.
Group Show at Jetsam Studio
A rotating selection of artworks by gallery artists from JHB Gallery in Manhattan can be seen through Sept. 7 at Jetsam Studio in Southampton. The show includes abstract photograms from Ellen Carey’s “Dings and Shadows” series, Bohnchang Koo’s ocean photography, John Noestheden’s celestial-themed paintings and drawings, and Mark Saltz’s oil-on-linen abstractions.
Coming to Shelter Island
“Endless Summer,” a group exhibition, will open next Thursday at Maju Gallery on Shelter Island with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
Exhibiting artists are Kevin Barrett, John Born, Bruce Cambell, E.J. Camp, Deborah Feingold, Paul Geenty, Jack Howard-Potter, Sally Jacobs-Baker, Donna Levinstone, Elena Lyakir, Barry Stern, and Walter Sternlieb.
