Parrish Art Museum

Affinities for Abstraction
2021-07-02 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-03 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-04 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-05 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-08 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-09 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-10 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-11 11:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY, 11976, United States
Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020, is a freewheeling look at the work of 42 artists who have called the Hamptons home for a week, a season, or a lifetime. Organized by the Museum’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., the exhibition tells the sweeping story of artists with ties to the region who have expanded and exploited the language of abstraction.

Field of Dreams
2021-07-02 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-03 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-04 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-07 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-08 11:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-09 11:00 - 17:00 and 2 more dates
On August 20, 2020, the Parrish opened Field of Dreams, our inaugural sculpture exhibition created to extend the galleries outdoors and activate the Museum’s meadows with work that engages and responds to the Parrish’s architecture and landscape. The exhibition series is part of the Museum’s new Art in the Meadow initiative that enlivens the grounds with performances, projections, and works of art.
Field of Dreams outdoor sculpture exhibition is open and free to the public daily, from 11 am–5 pm. Visitors are asked to observe social distancing practices and are required to wear masks on Museum property.

Jazz on the Terrace: The Seth Weaver Quartet
2021-07-02 18:00 - 19:30
Join us for our first outdoor Jazz concert of the season featuring The Seth Weaver Quartet! You may also watch the livestream of the concert on the Parrish’s YouTube channel.

The spaces for in-person attendance have sold out, please use the link below watch the livestream online.
The event takes place outdoors on the Museum’s Terrace and Event Lawn, rain or shine. Please bring your own chairs, no Museum seating is available.
Seth Weaver has rapidly established a reputation as one of the most exciting new jazz names on the NYC jazz scene. Whether through his brilliant improvised trombone solos, rich baritone vocals, original compositions, or his dedicated teaching, his passion for music and unique talent shines through. Weaver’s latest project is a big band album titled “Truth,” released in March 2020, and was showcased at Birdland in an April 2020 concert.
Weaver has performed at Dizzy’s, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Bass Performance Hall, to name a few, and has performed in Amsterdam and Dublin. He has shared the stage with Ben Folds, Alfredo “Chocolate” Armenteros, Larry Harlow, Bucky Pizzarelli, Michael Dease, Ulysses Owens Jr., Adam Neely, Luis Bonilla, and Manhattan Transfer. He was featured as a guest artist with the New London Big Band, and served as artist in residence at Millersville University. He appeared on TV for “An American Big Band Christmas,” broadcast nationally.
Weaver is a sought after composer and arranger and his music has been performed all over the world. His brilliant composition “Frost” debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2018, as did his composition “The Hudson,” in 2016. He composed the original score for the off-Broadway play, “For What It’s Worth.” Weaver’s transcription and analysis of Michael Dease’s album “Coming Home” is available through Warwick Music Publications.
Originally from Tennessee, Weaver was the winner of the Texas State Jazz Trombone Competition and was one of three finalists in the International Trombone Association’s Carl Fontana Jazz Competition two years in a row. He won the American Trombone Workshop’s National Jazz Competition in 2017. In addition to his big band album release, Weaver has a Big Band EP and a single titled “Isle of Skye” for an Irish fusion project in the works.
Advance ticket purchase with pre-event registration is required.
All tickets are sold pre-event and online only. No sales at the door. All sales are final, non-transferable, and non-refundable.
The event takes place outdoors on the Museum’s Terrace and Event Lawn. Please bring your own chairs, no Museum seating is available.
You must wear a mask to access the event. Face coverings must be worn when in aisles or moving through spaces.
No outside food or drink is permitted. Individually packaged food and drinks will be available for purchase through the cafe vendor, Elegant Affairs.
Restrooms will be open during the event. Hand sanitizer and wipes will be available. The Parrish is being regularly disinfected for the safety of our staff and visitors.
No pets are allowed on the Museum grounds or in the galleries.

Friday Nights are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:
Additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.

Everything That Wasn't White
2021-07-03 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-04 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-05 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-08 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-09 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-10 11:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-11 11:00 - 16:30
Everything That Wasn’t White: Lonnie Holley at the Elaine de Kooning House presents 35 new paintings, works on paper, and sculpture created by artist and musician Lonnie Holley during his 2020 artist-in-residency at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton.

Summer Painting en Plein Air at the Parrish
2021-07-09 10:00 - 12:30
FRIDAYS 10am-12:30pm
Session I: June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 9 plus
SPECIAL WRAP-UP CLASS Friday, September 10
Open to ages 15 and up. Beginner to advanced. Class tailored to all levels. Students may work in gouache or oil and are responsible for their own supplies. Supply list provided.
Materials list
Class limited to 12 students.
$425 | $350 Members
FULLY ENROLLED
This summer, two six-class series of en plein air painting will be offered. Students may join one or both series. The first class in each will be held at the Parrish Art Museum where we will take students through materials, processes, and class structure. Students will explore landscape works in the galleries to discuss landscape painting and painting issues, including perspective, distance, light and shadow, color, trees, clouds, grass, etc.
All other sessions (weather permitting) will be held at specific sites: gardens, landscape, waterscapes. The September 10 wrap-up class will be at a special location with a fun lesson, and a good-bye party!
NOTE: In the case of inclement weather, classes will be held at the Parrish Art Museum.

Recorded Online Talk: Tomashi Jackson, K-Sue Park, Kelly Dennis, and Corinne Erni
2021-07-09 18:00 - 19:00
Enjoy a recorded conversation with Tomashi Jackson, before the opening of her new exhibition, The Land Claim on July 11. The talk also features K-Sue Park, Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center; Kelly Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Nation and attorney specializing in Federal American Indian law; and Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, who moderates the discussion. The Land Claim focuses on the historic and contemporary lived experiences of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on the East End of Long Island. In her work for the exhibition, Jackson juxtaposes current and historical racial segregation in the region, similar to her work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Please use the link below to register for the online talk. After registering, you will receive a link to watch the program on the Parrish’s YouTube channel.
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About the Participants
Kelly Dennis is an attorney specializing in Federal American Indian law. She has represented her tribe, the Shinnecock Indian Nation, and other sovereign tribal nations on matters such as land rights, civil rights, cultural and natural resources protection, as well as tribal governance and business development. She continues to represent individual tribe members on education law, family law, small business, and other matters as an Of-Counsel Attorney with The Law Offices of Tela L. Troge, PLLC located in Southampton, New York. Dennis integrates her legal background with her passion for the arts through social justice advocacy efforts for the rights and welfare of indigenous peoples. As such, she has served as the Public Programs & Residency Coordinator at The Watermill Center (WMC), an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities located in Water Mill, New York.
K-Sue Park’s scholarship examines the creation of the American real estate system and the historical connections between property law, immigration law, and American Indian law. Prior to Georgetown, she was the Critical Race Studies Fellow at UCLA School of Law and an Equal Justice Works Fellow and staff attorney in El Paso, where she investigated predatory mortgage lending schemes. Park earned her B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa honors from Cornell University, where she was a College Scholar, her M.Phil with Distinction in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was a Presidential Scholar, and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where she was a Javits Fellow. A former Fulbright Scholar, Park’s writings have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Law & Society Review, and The New York Times.
About Tomashi Jackson
Drawing centrally from Josef Albers’s research on the relativity of color and the unconscious processes by which the brain organizes and reconciles information, Jackson’s work bridges gaps between geometric experimentation and the systematization of injustice, incorporating images printed and hand painted from photographs and materials chosen for their relevance into formalist compositions. She uses properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy to investigate the value of human life in public space. Jackson’s research driven projects and visual interrogation of shared language around societal and chromatic color offers a narrative framework from which she constructs her own language of abstraction.
Tomashi Jackson was born in Houston and raised in Los Angeles. She earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art in 2016; a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012, and a BFA from Cooper Union in 2010. Her solo exhibitions include Forever My Lady at Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2020), Time Out of Mind at Tilton Gallery (2019), Los Angeles , Interstate Love Song at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia (2018), and The Subliminal is Now at Tilton Gallery (2016). Her work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and additional group exhibitions at The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA), Mass MoCA, The Bakalar & Paine Galleries at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, as well as in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Jackson was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the 2019 Resident Artist at the ARCAthens Residency Program, Athens, Greece. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY, and she has been a visiting artist lecturer at Boston University, New York University, Yale University, and School of Visual Arts, NY. She lives and works in Cambridge and New York City. Her work is represented by Tilton Gallery in New York City and Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
Friday Nights at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:Additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.

Members' Preview
2021-07-11 11:00 - 13:00
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Members will be among the first to view the Museum’s new exhibition, Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim, with a special program at 12PM and enhanced benefits throughout the day. Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim is organized by Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, who will introduce a conversation at noon in the Lichtenstein Theater between artist Tomashi Jackson and attorney and counselor at law Tela Loretta Troge, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Tribe. Troge was one of the nine people interviewed from the Indigenous, Black and Latinx communities for Jackson’s research for The Land Claim.
Members are invited to take advantage of free admission for one guest per Member per visit and increased discounts in the Shop and Café with 20% off.
Space is limited and advanced registration required.
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About the Exhibition
Tomashi Jackson (born 1980, Houston, TX) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, textiles, sculpture, and video to place formal and material investigations in dialogue with recent histories of displacement and disenfranchisement of people of color, resulting in formalist compositions of exuberant color, bold geometries, and intricate layerings of material. Jackson’s continued investigation into color, light, and perception, and the effects of these on the value of human life in public space is inspired by Josef Albers’s research on the relativity of color.
Jackson was invited as part of the Parrish Art Museum’s 2021 annual invitation to an artist to consider the entire Museum as a site for works that transcend disciplinary boundaries, encouraging new ways to experience art, architecture, landscape, and community.
Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim focuses on the historic and contemporary lived experiences of Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on the East End of Long Island, and how issues of housing, transportation, livelihood, migration, and agriculture link these communities.
Learn more here.
Exhibition Support
Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; The Bandier Family Foundation; The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Fund for Publications; The Dorothy Lichtenstein ArtsReach Fund, established by Agnes Gund; The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family; The Deborah Buck Foundation; Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins; Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder; The Speyer Family Foundation; and Nina Yankowitz.
We are pleased to partner with The Watermill Center in support of Tomashi Jackson’s project and acknowledge their generous partnership through their Inga Maren Otto Fellowship.
The Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.

Creative Studio
2021-07-11 13:00 - 14:30
Acrylic Painting: Light, Layers and Glazes
Join artist Eric Dever for this Creative Studio for Adults and Teens. Explore painting in acrylic; discover the transparent qualities of this medium while layering and glazing with color. We will create works of art inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions and permanent collection artists Dorothea Rockburne and Keith Sonnier.
Workshops will be held in the Lichtenstein Theater to allow for ample social distancing. Everyone will have their own workspace and materials. Materials will be provided.
$35 Non-members | $25 Members
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Advance ticket purchase with pre-registration is required. Enrollment is limited. All tickets are sold online only. You must wear a face covering to enter the Museum.
