As The Hamptons art season begins to approach, seasonal museums open and join the two art museums in exhibiting art in The Hamptons and on the East End of Long Island. Hamptons Art Hub has put together a Short List of Hamptons museum exhibitions to know in May 2016. For more art options, visit our Exhibition Finder to discover gallery and museums shows on view on the East End.
Parrish Art Museum
“Radical Seafaring" opens on May 8, 2016 and continues through July 24, 2016.
A Member’s Reception takes place on May 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“Radical Seafaring” is a multidisciplinary exhibition presenting two-dimensional works, sculptural objects, vessels, models, film and video, off-site commissions and boat trips around East End waterways. Under the direction of Andrea Grover, the show will feature 25 artists showing works ranging from artist-made seafaring vessels, documentation of past expeditions and art performance pieces, designs exploring alternative communities on the water and more. Presented in four different themes, the art in "Radical Seafaring" presents a collection art making as a "new form of expression" with artists making site-specific works on the water or in interaction with the water versus water in the distance as aesthetic muse.
The Parrish Art Museum is located at 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976. www.parrishart.org.
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"The Waterpod Project at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5" by Mary Mattingly, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and the Parrish Art Museum. Photo: Mike Nagle.
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Pollock Krasner House
“Philip Pavia: Sculpture and Drawings” opens on May 4, 2016 and continues through July 30, 2016.
The exhibition includes a selection of drawings and stone sculptures by Philip Pavia (1911-2005). The show focuses on the 1960s, when Pavia began working in marble, treating blocks of stone as collage elements to create various colors and textures culminating in “scatter sculptures.” Drawings on view represent “thought-forms” that helped Pavia visualize ideas for sculptures.
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is located at 830 Springs-Fireplace Road, East Hampton, NY 11937. www.sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/pkhouse.
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Philip Pavia, "Lily Pond" by Philip Pavia, 1965. Italian and African marble, diameter 112 inches. Lent by the Pavia Trust. Courtesy Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center.
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Guild Hall
“78th Annual Artist Members Exhibition” continues through June 4, 2016. The show is the oldest non-juried museum exhibition on Long Island and one of the few non-juried exhibitions still offered. The exhibition presents a diverse range of art made by artists on the East End and Long Island, all who are members of Guild Hall.
Guild Hall is located at 158 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937. www.guildhall.org.
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"Lyrical #5" by Suzanne LaFleur. Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 25 x 10 x 5 inches.
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LongHouse Reserve
LongHouse Reserve opened for the season on April 30, 2016.
New for the season are 12 sited sculptures that join the LongHouse Reserve's sculpture collection, all set on its cultivated grounds and gardens. In some cases, sculpture returning for 2016 have been reinstalled in new locations in concert with the natural setting. Click here to discover the new sculpture on view which includes art by Larry Rivers, Neil Noland, George Rickey, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Marko Remec and Jun Kaneko.
LongHouse Reserve is located at 133 Hands Creek Rd, East Hampton, NY 11937. www.longhouse.org.
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"The Invisible" by Enrique Martinez Celaya at LongHouse Reserve. Photo by Pat Rogers.
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Southampton Historical Museum
“Beach Light: Paintings By Eileen Dawn Skretch” opens May 20, 2016 and continues through October 22, 2016.
The exhibition features seaside paintings of the flat, open spaces of the East End by artist Eileen Dawn Skretch.
The Southampton Historical Museum & Research Center’s main campus is located at 17 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY 11968. www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org.
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Painting by Eileen Dawn Skretch. Courtesy Southampton Historical Museum.
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“Southampton Under Siege: The British Occupation of Southampton During The Revolutionary War” continues through December 31, 2016.
The exhibition makes use of a timeline, maps, period rooms, artifacts, video, and a catalog to bring attention to the men, women, and children who lived in an isolated and occupied village from 1776 until the end of the revolutionary war.
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Artwork on view at “Southampton Under Siege: The British Occupation of Southampton During The Revolutionary War” at Southampton Historical Society.
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Sag Harbor Whaling Museum
“Every Village Has A Story: Places” opens on May 27, 2016 with an Opening Reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
In this exhibition curated by Elise Goodheart, nine local artists were invited to explore the roots of Sag Harbor’s past through it’s buildings and “places.” Artists on view includeReynold Ruffins, John Capello, Paul Davis, Erica Lynn Huberty, Joan Tripp, Scott Sandell, Peter Solow, Carolyn Conrad, Michael Butler.
The museum opens for the season with a Sag Harbor student show interpreting a field trip to Cuba. Click here for details.
The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum is located at 200 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. www.sagharborwhalingmuseum.org.
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"Mill Town" by Carolyn Conrad. Courtesy Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum.
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Dan Flavin Art Institute
Continuing from last season is the temporary exhibition and the permanent installation of Dan Flavin's work.
“DAN FLAVIN: ICONS” continues through April 30, 2017. The five wall-mounted “icons” on view in the exhibition bridge the mediums of painting and sculpture. The box-like constructions with painted surfaces and attached light fixtures were created between 1961 and 1964.
ON PERMANENT VIEW is an installation by Dan Flavin (1933-1996) of nine works in fluorescent light made between 1963 and 1981. The exhibition follows Flavin’s art practice from when he began to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes to just before the presentation of his new art form was realized.
Dan Flavin Art Institute is located on Corwith Avenue, about 1/2 block from Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY 11932. The museum is open weekends from noon to 6 p.m. For details and programming, visit www.diaart.org.
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Dan Flavin, icon VII (via crucis), 1962–64. © 2015 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Collection of Stephen Flavin. Photo: Bill Jacobson. Courtesy Dan Flavin Art Institute.
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