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    Saturday, Jan. 18 at 3 PM | Gallery Visit for Members of Sean Scully: Duane Street, 1981–1983 at Lisson Gallery
    Sunday, Jan. 19 at 1 PM | Imagination Play Project
    Thursday, Jan. 23 at 3:45 PM | After-School Art
    Friday, Jan. 24 at 2 PM | Gallery Talk: Ralph Gibson—Nature : Object
    Monday, Jan. 27 at 1 PM | Access Parrish: Dance for Parkinson’s
    Monday, Jan. 27 at 3:45 PM | After-School Art
    Thursday, Jan. 30 at 11 AM | Access Parrish: Healing Through Art
    Thursday, Jan. 30 at 3:45 PM | After-School Art
    Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7 PM | Exclusive Member Studio Tour at James Howell Foundation

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  • Installation view of Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color at the Parrish Art Museum (October 27, 2024–March 2, 2025). Photo: © Gary Mamay.

    October 27, 2024–March 2, 2025

    On View | Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color

    This exhibition is a survey comprising more than 70 paintings and works on paper, drawn exclusively from the 2017 gift of works to the Parrish by the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation.

  • Installation view of Ralph Gibson—Nature : Object at the Parrish Art Museum (October 27, 2024–March 2, 2025). Photo: © Gary Mamay.

    October 27, 2024–April 27, 2025

    On View | Ralph Gibson—Nature : Object

    This exhibition presents a selection of photographs by Ralph Gibson from a series based on the relationship between shapes found in nature and human constructs; positing that nature is visually evident in all genres of industrial design, and architecture is evoked in the correlation between form and ergonomic function.

  • Jane Freilicher (American, 1924–2014). The Changing Scene, 1981. Oil on canvas, 52 x 64 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Elizabeth Hazan and Stephen Hicks 2023.9

    October 14, 2024–April 6, 2025

    On View | A New Subjectivity 1979/2024

    This exhibition pays tribute to the legendary Nouvelle Subjectivité (A New Subjectivity) exhibition organized by essayist and art historian Jean Clair in Brussels at the Palais des Beaux Arts in 1979. It presents a selection of works from several artists included in the original exhibition, and works by artists who continue the figurative traditions celebrated in Nouvelle Subjectivité, with some drawn from the Museum’s Permanent collection.

  • Audrey Flack (American, 1931–2024). A Brush with Destiny, 2023, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 40 x 40 in. Courtesy Hollis Taggart.

    October 14, 2024–March 30, 2025

    On View | Audrey Flack: Mid-Century to Post-Pop Baroque

    A career-spanning exhibition celebrating Audrey Flack that blends the artist’s iconic photorealist painting techniques with her early background in Abstract Expressionism and her newest “Post-Pop Baroque” series. Ranging from paintings and drawings to prints and sculptures, the exhibition includes new and recent works as well as works from the 1940s and 1950s.

  • Bertrand Meniel (French, b. 1961). Breakfast at the Fairmont, 2009, acrylic on linen, 38 ½ x 71 ¼ in. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel, 2018.16.2.

    October 14, 2024–March 30, 2025

    On View | Beyond Reality: Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel

    This exhibition is a survey of paintings and drawings by the French photorealist Bertrand Meniel, who has been creating paintings of unprecedented detail since 1996. Using a variety of photographs and advanced digital technologies, Meniel manipulates each image to perfection, focusing simultaneously on the foreground and background by combing hundreds of shots on a computer screen before painting them onto canvas.

  • Rendering of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s (Canadian, b. Mexico, 1967) upcoming Museum façade installation. Courtesy Antimodular Studio.

    October 14, 2024–January 1, 2026

    On View | Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Collider

    The latest installment of the Museum’s annual façade installation series features a new public artwork by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Made up of hundreds of small LED spotlights that create a calm, rippling curtain of light along the Museum’s south wall, Collider is visible from Montauk Highway and up close from the Museum’s meadow. The lights react in real time to invisible cosmic radiation from outer space.

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William Merritt Chase, The Big Bayberry Bush (The Bayberry Bush), ca. 1895. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 33 1/8 inches. The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Littlejohn Collection

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