Over the past few weeks and in those to come, visitors are invited to a plethora of dynamic art exhibitions around the Hamptons. Read more for Whitewall’s highlights, including Parrish Art Museum, LongHouse Reserve, Halsey McKay, Broadway, the Watermill Center, and A Hug from the Art World.
Sculpture Garden
LongHouse Reserve
Installation view of Toshiko Takaezu and Friends, 2024; Private Collection and Collection of LHR; © Family of Toshiko Takaezu; Photo by Philippe Cheng.
Paola Lenti at LongHouse Reserve, photo by Philippe Cheng.
133 Hands Creek Rd, East Hampton, NY 11937
With its sprawling 16-acre gardens, LongHouse Reserve’s sculpture garden and nature reserve is a welcome outdoor escape. The grounds are laden with LongHouse’s permanent and temporary art installations, including Martha Russo, Paola Lenti, Oscar Molina, Maren Hassinger, and Monica Banks.
Among this summer’s featured artists in the sculpture garden is Toshiko Takaezu, with “Toshiko Takaezu and Friends,” curated by Glenn Adamson. The show celebrates the decades-long relationship between LongHouse founder Jack Lenor Larsen and Takaezu, featuring pieces borrowed from the Noguchi Museum, where Takaezu’s retrospective is open to the public. The exhibit also features pieces by artists who were pivotal to Takaezu’s life, presenting key figures whose creations played a role in her dynamic oeuvre.
What we love: The gardens also feature more than 100 pieces from Paola Lenti Italian Furniture, a contemporary luxury brand that merges LongHouse’s natural habitat with artful craftsmanship.
Eddie Martinez, Sam Moyer, KAWS, and Julia Chiang
Parrish Art Museum
Installation view of Eddie Martinez at the Parrish, photo by Gary Mamay.
Installation view, Sam Moyer “Ferns Teeth,” Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. Courtesy Parrish Art Museum.
June 30–September 29 & July 14–October 13, 2024
279 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill, NY 11976
This summer, Parrish Art Museum presents four solo shows for Eddie Martinez, Sam Moyer, KAWS, and Julia Chiang. Between June 30–September 29, married creatives Martinez and Moyer are welcomed to Parrish with their own solo shows. Martinez’s vibrant and lively Bufly paintings take over the museum’s walls, spanning 12 feet tall. With her show “Ferns Teeth,” Moyer’s sculptural paintings and sculptures are dynamic creations that play with beauty, harmony, and light.
Julia Chiang, “Went To See You And It Was The Rain,” 2024, 36 x 54 inches, acrylic on wood panel, courtesy of the artist.
KAWS, TIME OFF, 2021, bronze, paint, 45.75 x 71.875 x 37.625 inches. © KAWS.
From July 14–October 13, married artists KAWS and Julia Chiang present their individual exhibitions in Parrish’s gallery spaces. With “TIME OFF,” KAWS’ first survey show in the Hamptons, viewers are invited to explore a range of his iconic sculptures and paintings that are emblems of contemporary life. Chiang’s “The Glows and the Blows” is the artist’s first solo museum show to date, debuting an array of her paintings and ceramics. Her pieces are rich panoramas of both the physical and psychological realms.
What we love: Together, these four exhibitions speak to the vibrancy and talent blossoming in the Hamptons, with Parrish Art Museum as a must-visit hotspot in contemporary art.
Group Show and Alex Dodge
Halsey Mckay Gallery
Installation view of “When The Sky Changes Tone I’ll Be Absolutely Tender,” courtesy of Halsey McKay.
June 29–August 12 & July 27–August 28, 2024
79a Newtown Lane, East Hampton, New York
This summer, Halsey Mckay presents two riveting shows at its East Hampton gallery. On show from June 29 to August 12, “When the Sky Changes Tone, I’ll Be Absolutely Tender” takes the image of the sky and its endless interpretations, presenting 15 artists and artists groups’ relevant works. Curated by R.H. Lossin, the show presents a juxtaposition of the beauties of a sunset with the endless threat of pollution.
Opening July 27, Alex Dodge’s “Sounds of Silence” draws from musical duo Simon & Garfunkel’s eponymous iconic 1969 song and album. With his solo exhibition, Dodge explores the song’s relevancy over 50 years later, particularly in reference to generative artificial intelligence. WIth his group of human-scale still life works that implicitly evoke the human figure through textile drapery, Dodge questions the limits of technology and computational systems.
What we love: “When the Sky Changes, I’ll be Absolutely Tender” features artists who all gape at the wonders of the sky but simultaneously tackle the daunting complexities of nature.
Claire Oswalt
Broadway East Hampton
Claire Oswalt, “Draw Me a Clock,” courtesy Broadway Gallery.
July 27–August 31, 2024
87 Newtown Ln, East Hampton, NY 11937
This summer, New York City-based Broadway Gallery heads East to their new temporary pop-up space in East Hampton. Claire Oswalt’s “Draw Me a Clock” explores the tribulations of crushing insomnia through abstract canvases. The Texan artist began the series as both an exploration of their own sleepless nights, but also to delve into one of science’s most confounding topics: human consciousness.
The show displays Oswalt’s new sewn-canvas and acrylic paintings, filled with billowing pigment. With whispering brushstrokes that form the silhouette of a clock face, the pieces on show at Broadway Gallery evoke universal memories of dreams and the complexities of our circadian rhythms.
What we love: As Oswalt’s creations draw from the mysteries of metaphysical consciousness, the artist also references the Clock Drawing Test, used by doctors to diagnose patients.
Gideon Appah
The Watermill Center
Gideon Appah, Another Place, 2020, Oils and Acrylics on Canvas 240 cm x 300 cm © Gideon Appah, courtesy Mitchell-Innes and Nash and the artist.
From July 27, 2024
39 Watermill Towd Rd, Water Mill NY, 11976
The Watermill Center –a hub for the arts and humanities world– presents its newest exhibition with Ghanaian painter Gideon Appah. Appah is Watermill’s first participant in their newly inaugurated Watermill Center Visual Arts Fellowship, a program supported by Pace Gallery and Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Known for his jewel-toned paintings and references to childhood, West African landscapes, and popular culture, Appah brings his distinct eye out East. The artist presents a series of vibrant works that are the product of his six-week residency in the Hamptons, which will be open to the public following The Watermill’s Annual Summer Benefit on July 27.
What we love: Watermill’s upcoming benefit is an additional opportunity for visitors to explore the works of over 20 installations and performances by acclaimed international artists on Watermill’s grounds.
Pablo Barba
A Hug From The Art World
Pablo Barba, “woman sitting smiling salad barefoot,” 2024, oil on canvas, 45 x 28 inches, courtesy the artist and a Hug From The Art World.
Pablo Barba, “three women one salad,” 2024, oil on canvas, 42 x 30 inches, courtesy the artist and a Hug From The Art World.
July 27–August 31, 2024
87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937
While over at Broadway Gallery’s pop up show, also stop by A Hug From The Art World’s “women laughing salad” by painter Pablo Barba. The exhibit marks Barba’s third exhibition with the gallery and first solo exhibition in the Hamptons.
In his presented series of oil paintings, Barba plays with the widespread meme stock images of women delighting in their salads in front of them. The exhibit toys with the famous image, with three women with salads, woman laughing salad, and more. With the meme as his root inspiration, Barba debuts a humorous array of paintings that sprout from playful elaboration and art historical references.
What we love: This exhibit highlights Pablo Barba’s distinctive talent in figurative painting, as the artist is known for his expressive contemporary scenes that nod to social happenings.
