Parrish Art Museum

Film & Talk | Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
2024-11-01 18:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York) | Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY, 11976, United States
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$13 Museum Members | $20 Adults & Resident Passholders | $18 Seniors | $15 Member’s Guest | $10 Students | $5 Children
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, 2019, 75 min., Directed by Deborah Shaffer.
Join us for a screening of Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, as the Parrish commemorates Flack’s life and career, in conjunction with Audrey Flack: Mid-Century to Post-Pop Baroque, on view from October 14, 2024 through April 6, 2025. After the screening, Director Deborah Shaffer and Louis K. Meisel will join in conversation with Corinne Erni, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art & Education, as they discuss their relationships with Flack throughout her career and during the film production.
About Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack (1931–2024) was an internationally recognized painter and sculptor and a pioneer of photorealism. Flack taught and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, was awarded the Augustus St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and was an honorary Albert Dorne Professor at Bridgeport University. Among many major museums around the world, her work also resides in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Butler Institute of American Art, National Gallery of Australia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, as well as at the Parrish Art Museum. Additionally, she is the first woman artist, along with Mary Cassatt, to be included in Janson’s History of Art text.
About the Film
At 88 years-old, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the history of contemporary art in America. Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, sculptor, and teacher, Audrey’s often controversial 40-year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Janson’s History of Art, Audrey continues to create, explore, and inspire with her unique style and indomitable spirit. Queen of Hearts follows Flack as she takes her work in a brand-new direction and reveals her long-term struggles as the mother of a child with autism. Flack has something deep and genuine to communicate to the world. She is a provocateur and a rebel, an example and an inspiration. Queen of Hearts is a moving portrait of an artist who is still testing, still experimenting, still searching.
Friday Nights are made possible by support from The Corcoran Group. Support for films at the Parrish is provided in part by Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs.

Talk & Book Signing | Artists Choose Parrish
2024-11-02 15:00 - 17:00
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$20 Adults & Resident Benefits PassHolder | $13 Members | $15 Member’s Guest | $18 Seniors | Free for Students and Children
Join us for a special panel conversation and book signing of the Parrish’s newly released exhibition catalogue Artists Choose Parrish, including a conversation with artists Alice Aycock and Nanette Carter and Corinne Erni, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art & Education.
As the Parrish commemorates the special exhibitions that celebrated the Museum’s 125th anniversary, the catalogue features the 41 participating artists, their selections from the Parrish’s permanent collection, artist statements, and photography of the exhibition. The conversation will be followed by a book signing and toast. Catalogues are available to purchase in the Michéle & Steven Pesner Book and Gift Shop.
Learn more about Artists Choose Parrish here.

Film & Talk | SPARK: Robin Williams and his Battle with Lewy Body Dementia
2024-11-07 16:00 - 18:00
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SPARK: Robin Williams and his Battle with Lewy Body Dementia, 2023, 45 min.
Join us for a special film screening of SPARK: Robin Williams and his Battle with Lewy Body Dementia, presented in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center (ADRC). This important documentary tells the story of Robin Williams’ battle with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia (LBD). The documentary highlights key messages that can enhance learning and understanding of LBD and other forms of dementia, improve diagnosis and detection, and offer families a way to feel connected to resources and support. The screening is followed by a panel about the disease and Q&A session.
Free and open to all. Advanced registration is required.
Panelists
Lauren Vlachos, MSNP, CFRE – Executive Director/CEO of ADRC
Sharon Reichman, MSW – Director of Client Services ADRC
Eric Spronz, MSN, PMHNP-BC, CASAC – Medical Director of East End Neuropsych
About the Film
The feature movie Robin’s Wish reveals the true story about Robin Williams and his battle with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia (LBD), receiving wide public acclaim. From that movie, Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) and the producers of Robin’s Wish created a 45-minute documentary adaptation, SPARK: Robin Williams and his Battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Watch the trailer here.
LBDA is using this educational film to disseminate information about Robin Williams and his battle with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia (LBD) to promote community and professional awareness and education to those affected by Lewy body dementia. This new and fascinating adaptation delves deeper into the disease, its biology, myriad of clinical symptoms and its impact on both the person with LBD and the primary caregiver.

Talk | FRESH PAINT: Derrick Adams
2024-11-15 18:00 - 19:30
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$20 Adults & Resident Benefits PassHolder | $10 Members | $18 Seniors | Free for Students & Children
As we celebrate the installment of FRESH PAINT featuring Derrick Adams’ work on view in the Creativity Lounge, join us for a conversation in the Lichtenstein Theater with artist Derrick Adams, Folasade Ologundudu, who was commissioned to write the text that accompanies Adams’ work, and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Parrish.
FRESH PAINT spotlights the latest works by both emerging and established artists, fostering a direct response to contemporary issues and cultural movements, on a rotating basis. FRESH PAINT is a collaboration with the FLAG Art Foundation and is accompanied by educational initiatives, including ARTscope, a teen council program offering participants a comprehensive exploration of the visual arts, career pathways, and practical experience in museum operations.
About Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Adams’ work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance.
Derrick Adams received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1996 and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 2003. In addition to his critically acclaimed art practice, Adams has held numerous teaching positions and is currently a tenured assistant professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, a non-profit organization to support and encourage underserved communities in the city of Baltimore through events conducted by three entities: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency program that subscribes to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; The Black Baltimore Digital Database, a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and Zora’s Den, an online community of Black women writers started in January 2017, which has since expanded to in-person writing workshops, a writers’ circle, and a monthly reading series that strive to promote instruction, support, and social engagement.
About Folasade Ologundudu
Folasade Ologundudu is an independent producer, writer, curator, and multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her practice seeks to uncover ideas related to the universal human condition through text-based work, photography, and film. She has written art criticism, profiles, interviews, and essays for ArtForum, ARTnews, Cultured Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, and Frieze, among other publications. Ologundudu is also the founder of Light Work, a creative media platform rooted at the intersection of art, education, and culture. Through her podcast, Everything Is Connected, she holds conversations with artists, curators, and entrepreneurs deeply rooted in visual arts and community building.
Friday Nights are made possible by The Corcoran Group.

Talk | Klaus Ottmann on Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color (Postponed)
2024-11-22 18:00 - 19:00
*This event has been postponed until further notice.
$20 Adults & Resident Passholders | $13 Members | $15 Member’s Guest | $18 Seniors | Free for Students and Children
Join us for a discussion on artist Charlotte Park by Klaus Ottmann, Robert Lehman Curator, as Ottmann delves into Park’s work in abstraction, color, and form, often related to the environment where she lived and worked. The exhibition follows Park’s abstractions of color and form, inspired by organic life, from her diffident embraces of color from the mid-1950s through playful and assertive compositions in the 1980s. Learn more here about Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color, on view from October 27, 2024 to March 2, 2025.
Friday Nights are made possible, in part, thanks to The Corcoran Group.
