For those heading out East for the late summer art season, here are some of Whitewall’s top picks including Tripoli Gallery, Dia Bridgehampton, Duck Creek, Onna House, Eric Firestone, Southampton Arts Center, Guild Hall, The Drawing Room, and Peter Marino Art Foundation.
“Inner Life”
Tripoli Gallery
Courtesy Tripoli Gallery, photo by Zev Starr-Tambor © Tripoli Gallery Inc. 2024.
July 27–August 26, 2024
26 Ardsley Rd, Wainscott, NY 11975
Curated by Tripoli Patterson, Tripoli Gallery’s latest group show features works Ashley Bickerton, Katherine Bradford, Sabra Moon Elliot, Tracey Emin, Mary Heilmann, Yung Jake, Dan McCarthy, Miles Partington, Lauren West, and Lucy Winton. Together, these artists speak to the process of extracting their inner lives into their creative projects, stripping down to raw emotion and personal experiences in their artistic material.
“Artists are always the leaders that we look to as they harvest those feelings from the core of their beings and portray them externally, on canvas with oils or acrylics, or whatever medium carries their true emotions to the outside world,” explained Patterson. “They bring this nostalgic feeling back to life and remind the viewers that the inner life is equally as important as the outside one.”
What we love: The exhibition features Ashley Bickerton’s Io and Daddy (2022) and Yung Jake’s hoody (2019), which invite viewers to examine the ways in which these artists have grappled with their own experience through their oeuvres.
Liliana Porter
Dia Bridgehampton
Liliana Porter, The Task (detail), 2024. © Liliana Porter. Photo: Don Stahl.
June 21, 2024—May 26, 2025
23 Corwith Ave, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
“Liliana Porter: The Task” at Dia Bridgehampton is an eleven month-long show that explores the artist’s multimedia contributions to the conceptual and feminist art movements. Throughout her portfolio, Porter has been concerned with the disjointedness of time, as seen in her prints, photographic works, images, installations, films, and plays. “Liliana Porter’s work has long used the language of Minimalism and conceptual art to address the absurdities and contradictions of social roles and common assumptions about how time is experienced or images are absorbed,” stated Humberto Moro, curator of the exhibition. “The presentation at Dia Bridgehampton continues her interest in overlapping art from different moments in her career, at the same time that the works themselves play with those temporalities.”
Included in the exhibition is Porter’s newest addition to her Forced Labor series, in which the artist creates “situations” using figurines and found objects against a blank background. Commissioned by Dia this year, Porter’s newest iteration, entitled “The Task,” is an expansive landscape of “situations” arranged on three wooden plinths, bringing together characters from different time periods.
What we love: The Dia Bridgehampton exhibition also features an array of black and white geometric photography works begun in the 1970s and a theatrical work entitled THEM from 2018, displaying a thorough compilation of Porter’s decades of work.
Erika Ranee
Duck Creek
Installation view of Erika Ranee at Duck Creek, courtesy of Duck Creek.
July 13—August 11, 2024
127 Squaw Road, East Hampton, NY 11937
The Arts Center at Duck Creek presents a solo exhibition with artist Erika Ranee at the center’s Little Gallery space. “Feelings” compiles an arrangement of 19 canvases made specially for the exhibition at the artist’s home. With each vibrant canvas, Ranee employs the use of distinct material to convey meaning–an approach drawn from contemporary influences including Robert Rauschenberg, Suzanne Jackson, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The exhibition draws East Hampton’s beachgoers to explore the beauty of the surrounding landscapes. With her ink, crayon, and collage pieces, Ranee draws viewers into the beauties of everyday life. “Last summer I drove around [East Hampton] and got lost, and chanced upon a beautiful little ‘hidden’ beach. This is the recall I’m relying on to build this series of work,” Ranee explained. “The places and memories appear as I’m painting, not before. No pre-sketch or planning. Just tapping into feeling and memory.“
What we love: At the same time as Ranee’s solo show, Duck Creek presents a simultaneous group exhibition curated by the artist entitled “All The Things,” featuring works by Mike Cloud, Daniel John Gadd, Carl E. Hazlewood, Leeza Meksin, Jeanne Reynal and Rachel Eulena Williams.
Les Lalanne & McArthur Binion
Peter Marino Art Foundation
Courtesy Peter Marino Art Foundation, photography by Jason Schmidt.
May 25—September 28, 2024 & July 20—September 28, 2024
11 Jobs Ln, Southampton, NY 11968
This summer at the Peter Marino Art Foundation, viewers are invited into the fantastic world of artistic duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne. With more than 60 works on show, the galleries are whirlwinds of the duo’s whimsical and surrealist creations, featuring key highlights from the duo’s renowned portfolio. Works on display include Claude’s Très Grand Choupatte (2007), François-Xavier’s Grand Chat Polymorphe (1998), and his collection of bronze golden sheep Grands Moutons de Peter (2004).
Also on show at the foundation is a solo exhibition with Chicago-based artist McArthur Binion. The show presents 13 paintings in which Binion fuses collage, drawing, and painting to craft intricate abstractions that incorporate minimalist patterns built upon a substrate of personal documents. Binion’s works explore narratives of the African American experience in rural America alongside his experiences during the predominately white era of American Modernism in New York City.
What we love: Both exhibitions highlight the decades-long friendships between architect Peter Marino and the foundation’s shown artists, illuminating the works from Marino’s personal collection.
Group Shows & Ingeborg Ten Haeff
Onna House
Installation view of Lisbeth McCoy works for “Sculpture” at Onna House, photo courtesy of Onna House.
Installation view of Ingeborg Ten Haeff at Onna House, photo courtesy of Onna House.
July 20–September 3, 2024
123 Georgica Road, East Hampton, NY
A hub for women artists, Onna House invites art lovers to its Japanese modernist 1960s space founded by designer, curator, and collector Lisa Perry. The house presents its “Sculpture” exhibition, a group show including the mesmerizing works of renowned sculptors Lisbeth McCoy, Mia Fonssagrives Solow, Sally Richardson, Katrien Van der Schueren, Amy Wickersham and Kelly Klein. Additionally, the house hosts its first ever garden exhibition entitled “Earth Mothers,” guest curated by Erica Lynn Huberty with work by artists Erica Lynn Huberty, Jill Musnicki, Mary Mattingly and Marie Lorenz. The show brings guests to the house’s dazzling outdoor gardens, an ode to its artists’ environmentally conscious and sustainable creative approaches.
Onna House also presents several paintings by the late artist Ingeborg Ten Haeff, primarily stemming from her years in Long Island’s Amagansett in the 1960s and 70s. As the artist was married to Onna House’s original architect Paul Lester Weiner, Ten Haeff’s commanding works are deeply rooted to Onna House’s unique creation story.
What we love: Ingeborg Ten Haeff’s solo show at Onna House features a rare collection of the artist’s early paintings that have not been seen by the public for a number of years.
“Alright Alright Alright”
Eric Firestone Gallery
Installation view of “Alright Alright Alright” at Eric Firestone Gallery, courtesy Eric Firestone Gallery.
August 2–September 22, 2024
4 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937
Eric Firestone Gallery’s latest group exhibition, “Alright Alright Alright,” is a colorful panorama of pieces by 22 artists hailing from all backgrounds and generations. The exhibition speaks to the existence of vibrant optimism in a world of complexities, featuring blends of color, material, and pattern. Throughout the show, artists including Acacia Mirable, Liz Collins, Marcus Magnanni, Kelsey Brookes, Alex Stern, and Ellsworth Ausby play with geometry in their work to address a deeper concern.
“Alright Alright Alright” provides a window into the contemporary concerns of today, including environmental sustainability and themes of immigration, migration, and displacement. With his latest muslin and linen works, artist Basie Allen combines visuals of the urban grid planning system with visions of organic movement, questioning the boundary between country and city. With her Maps of Displacement series, artist Cassandra Mayela Allen speaks to her own experience of migration from Venezuela alongside the broader migrant crisis, weaving together the clothing worn by Venezuelan migrants and retelling their story in the process.
What we love: Nina Yankowitz’s Draped and Pleated paintings draw from principles from the Feminist Art Movement, questioning the restrictive concept of “women’s work” handicraft techniques with her artistic process.
“Couples Squared”
Southampton Arts Center
Roy Dowell, “Untitled #1188,” 2021. Courtesy Southampton Arts Center.
Sebastian Blanck, “Sun Hat Blue Reflection,” 2022. Courtesy Southampton Arts Center.
July 27–September 14, 2024
25 Jobs Ln, Southampton, NY 11968
Curated by critic and art historian Phyllis Tuchman, “Couples Squared” at Southampton Arts Center brims with unpredictable artistic creations. The group show is an ode to the 1940s and 1950s New York School Era –a moment of bursting postwar creative activity among painters including Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Charlotte Park– echoing the moment’s inclusion of vibrant color and unapologetic abstraction that broadcasted artists’ aspirations for the future.
While the show speaks to the New York School Era, it also uplifts the ways in which discourse today has become increasingly varied compared to decades ago. The vibrant exhibition features 36 prominent artists including Derrick Adams, Eddie Martinez, April Gornik, Sebastian Blanck, Larry Poons, Shara Hughes, and more. The works on show range from nonrepresentational works to portraits, figures, landscapes and seascapes. With its diverse spectrum of artistic contributions, the exhibition speaks to the broad range of subject matter within today’s contemporary art sphere, as no single work can allow the viewer to predict the next.
What we love: These artworks transform raw ideas and sketches into captivating visual stories that challenge perceptions and evoke profound emotional reactions.
Julian Schnabel
Guild Hall
Julian Schnabel, “Untitled (The Sky of Illimitableness),” 2015. Inkjet print, oil on polyester 144 x 156 inches. Photo by Tom Powel Imaging, courtesy of Guild Hall.
August 4–October 27, 2024
158 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937
Founded in 1931, Guild Hall is a bustling hub for the performing and visual arts. This summer, “Julian Schnabel: Selected Works From Home” is an illuminating selection of American painter Julian Schnabel’s most prolific and rarely-seen works. With paintings, drawings, and sculptures drawn from Schnabel’s personal collection brought to Guild Hall, the show is an intimate window into the artist’s view every day, as viewers are invited to explore the artist’s own pieces that he has kept for himself.
With Schnabel’s 1979 wax painting Procession (for Jean Vigo) and 1984 painting on velvet Salinas Cruz, the works on view span through the past 45 years of the artist’s rich portfolio. The exhibition was organized by Melanie Crader, director of Guild Hall visual arts, in close collaboration with Schnabel and his executive assistant, Patrick Hillman. Each selected piece demonstrates Schnabel’s position as a spearheading contemporary painter since his beginnings in the 1970s, as the artist toys with avant-garde materials and canvases that defy conventional borders.
What we love: Guild Hall also presents a simultaneous pop-up store with luxury art book publisher TASCHEN, which will feature Julian Schnabel x TASCHEN projects for purchase. The store also offers an exclusive collection of hand-painted skateboards by the artist.
Costantino Nivola
The Drawing Room
Installation view of Costantino Nivola solo exhibition at The Drawing Room 2024, courtesy of The Drawing Room.
July 26–September 16, 2024
55 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937
This August and September, the Drawing Room invites visitors to a solo exhibition focused on Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola. After his immigration from Italy to New York City in 1939, the artist and his wife Ruth Guggenheim moved to Long Island’s East End in the early 1940s, positioning the couple in the epicenter of a community of iconic artists. The exhibition shines a light on the Italian sculptor’s pivotal creative contributions in New York, including his friendships with the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko.
Spanning four decades of Nivola’s figurative sculpture works, the show presents a wide range of Nivola’s mesmerizing bronze, fresco, concrete, marble, sandcast, and terracotta projects, including a 1959 concrete and paint fresco. Pieces on show additionally emphasize Nivola’s blend of traditional and modern techniques, positioning the artist as a master of both classic intuition and contemporary innovation. Each timeless sculpture highlights the artist’s
What we love: The show is a wide range of Nivola’s sculpture works, from his silhouettes of dancing Sardinian figures to chunky cubistic bronzes.
