September 13, 6 PM

Book Talk | Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art

Book Signing to follow

Join us for a special discussion on the release of Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art, by writers and curators Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. Released this summer, Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art explores the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft, and ecofeminism in ways that demonstrate the debt these crucial genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. The panel will include the book’s authors as well as artist Suzanne McClelland, who is a Parrish Collection artist and featured in the book. The conversation will be followed by a signing in the Museum Shop and Lobby.

July 14–October 13, 2024

On View | Julia Chiang: The Glows and The Blows

The Parrish will present the first-ever solo museum exhibition by painter Julia Chiang. The artist will present new, large-scale paintings and ceramics. Chiang’s painterly process is slow and controlled while spontaneous. Organic shapes coalesce on the picture plane in varying densities of paint and with fervor, scrimmage for territory. She operates in the realm of abstractions, but the body is the basis for her allegories, metaphors, and explorations. Her vocabulary is rife with organic forms and formations, which function as introspections that range from the corporeal to the psychological.

July 14–October 13, 2024

On View | KAWS: TIME OFF

KAWS: TIME OFF continues the Parrish Art Museum’s legacy of presenting American artists at the forefront of new creative languages and global art movements. This survey exhibition, the first in the East End, explores KAWS’ dynamic range of visual vocabulary and diverse artistic output over the last decade, highlighting his consistent engagement with American popular culture while intentionally exploring boundaries and overlaps between different genres and across mediums.

June 30–September 29, 2024

On View | Eddie Martinez: Buflies

Celebrated for his bright, bold, and colorful paintings, Eddie Martinez presents a new body of work made specifically for the Parrish. Taking advantage of the Museum’s expansive space and high ceilings, Martinez’s seven 12-foot-tall Bufly paintings are imbued with personal iconography. The artist started the Bufly series in 2021 when his son Arthur, who was two then, became fascinated with butterflies, mispronouncing them as “buflies.” Martinez has been painting them ever since.

June 30–September 29, 2024

On View | Sam Moyer: Ferns Teeth

Sam Moyer’s solo exhibition showcases the artist’s relationship to material and light as a throughline in her practice, displaying the range of her processes, and bodies of work across three galleries. Each space will focus on a material relationship, as Moyer presents a large-scale stone painting, sculptural photographs, and a series of smaller, more representational wall works. As part of the exhibition, artist-made marble benches will be present in two of the three galleries, and playable, hand-cast concrete backgammon boards will be placed in the Museum’s lobby.

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.