Hildy Maze Solo
“Visual Poetry,” the first of two successive exhibitions of work by Hildy Maze (1949-2020), opens Thursday at Gallery 851 in Springs with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and will continue through Oct. 4. The show will include gestural oil and mixed-media paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, as well as framed drawings.
Maze, who received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, lived and worked in TriBeCa before moving to East Hampton in 1984. Influenced in part by her 25-year study and practice of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, her work plays visually with how we obscure our recognition of the clear, empty awareness of mind, according to the gallery.
Drawings at Halsey McKay
A solo show of recent drawings by Sara Greenberger Rafferty can be seen at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through Oct. 11. A multimedia artist, she creates wall work, sculpture, and installations that often involve photographs or photographic processes.
The current series of drawings jettisons the photograph altogether and features color combinations that evoke palettes, test patterns, and seasonal collections. The small-scale drawings consist of assembled strips of plastic and acrylic polymer paint on paper that can be described as a series of vertical stripes but are also, according to the gallery, undulating, adjusting, imprecise, and variable.
Plein-Air Painters
A show of paintings by the Wednesday Group will be at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday and Sunday, with a reception on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
The group was started 16 years ago by Frank Sofo and Gene Samuelson, who wanted to form a plein-air painting group that would meet once a week at scenic locations on the East End. Today it includes more than 15 artists.
The show has work by Agnes Bristel-Soethoudt, Susan D’Alessio, Marie DiSunno Lombardi, Teresa Lawler, Jean Mahoney, Deb Palmer, Lisa Rose, Bob Sullivan, Aurelio Torres, Miriam Sapiro, Johanna Caleca, Kathy Milliken, and Diane White, as well as Samuelson and Sofo.
Exhibition Tour
Scout Hutchinson, the Parrish Art Museum’s FLAG Art Foundation associate curator of contemporary art, will lead a tour of “Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” Friday at 3 p.m.
The two-part show considers material and conceptual approaches to engaging with the landscape. It includes work by Dan Colen, N. Dash, Andy Goldsworthy, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, Delcy Morelos, Jonathan Sanchez Noa, Martin Puryear, Eric-Paul Riege, Christine Howard Sandoval, Michelle Stuart, Martha Tuttle, Meg Webster, and Lawrence Weiner.
Tickets are $30, $15 for resident benefits passholders, $10 for members’ guests, and free for members, students, and children.
Perle Fine in Chelsea
“Ninth Street Woman,” paintings by the pioneering Abstract Expressionist Perle Fine (1905-1988) from the 1940s through the early 1960s, opens Thursday at the Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea and will run through Oct. 24.
The exhibition highlights Fine’s ability to balance gesture, color, and structure in a purely abstract language, according to the gallery. “Wall of Silence” (1961), the show’s centerpiece, is a monumental diptych 14 feet long that exemplifies the artist’s ambitious approach to scale.
Other key works from the 1950s will be on view along with several paintings from Fine’s “Prescience Series” from the early 1950s, whose softer colors, atmosphere, and curvilinear forms anticipated the Color Field movement by almost a decade.
Herman Cherry’s Rivers
Another East End artist having a solo show in Manhattan is Herman Cherry (1909-1992), whose “How the River Flows” opens Thursday at the Shamnoski Gallery on the Upper East Side with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will continue through Oct. 10.
Cherry’s “River Series,” produced in East Hampton during the summer of 1970, reveals through color the roads, frontiers, and sinuous paths life unfolds and undertakes, the gallery said. The works are being shown for the first time, in parallel with the Sebastian Gladstone Gallery in TriBeCa.
The curving paths and oblong shapes that run vertically down the picture plane suggest rivers and topographies, remembered vistas of the northern Midwest, the Pacific Coast, and Saskatchewan in Canada, places Cherry experienced through temporary teaching and residencies beginning in 1965.
David Slater in Montauk
“As I See It,” paintings by David Slater, opens Thursday at Montauk’s Depot Gallery and will remain on view through Sept. 21. A reception is set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Included is a wide range of Slater’s large-scale paintings, some familiar, some not, as well as mixed media, works on paper, and intricate collages. His paintings are expressive visual diaries, documenting his passions, opinions, thoughts, travels, and dreams, the gallery has said. The patterns and bold colors render his art recognizable as uniquely his.
