• October 25, 6 PM

    Family Film | Night at the Museum

    Join us for a family night at the Parrish, with an evening of drop-in games, art activities, a scavenger hunt in the Creativity Lounge, and a screening of Night at the Museum! Visitors are encouraged to get into the spooky spirit and don their Halloween attire for a sweet treat.

  • Derrick Adams (American, b. 1970). Getting the Bag, 2024, acrylic and fabric collage on wood panel in artist frame, 60 x 60 in. Courtesy the Artist.

    October 14–January 5, 2025

    On View | FRESH PAINT: Derrick Adams

    In collaboration with The FLAG Art Foundation, FRESH PAINT spotlights the latest works by both emerging and established artists, fostering a direct response to contemporary issues and cultural movements. The latest installment features a powerful new work by multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams.

  • 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–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). Self Portrait with Flaming Heart, 2002, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 in. Courtesy Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation.

    October 14–April 6, 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–April 6, 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–November 16, 2025

    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.

  • Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales installed at the Parrish Art Museum © Estate of Carmen Herrera. Photo by Gary Mamay

    May 25–December 8, 2024

    On View | Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales

    Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales features four large-scale sculptures in red, blue, yellow, and green in the Museum’s South Meadow. Carmen Herrera (American, b. Cuba, 1915–2022) is known for her hard-edge paintings, prints, and sculptures—often representing geometric shapes with both symmetrical and asymmetrical abstractions.

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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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