Installation view of Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 and Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (September 13, 2025–February 8, 2026). Photo: © Gary Mamay.
Closing Reception | Endless Limits and Time Exposed
Open to All Museum Members, Off-Site at the James Howell Foundation
February 5, 6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Members are invited to the James Howell Foundation in New York City for the closing reception of Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 and Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes, including a lecture and book signing with art historian Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D. Both exhibitions are on view at the Parrish through February 8.
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About Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014
The Parrish Art Museum presents an exhibition of the work of James Howell (American, 1935–2014), an artist known for his minimalist paintings that explore the vast tonal range of the color gray. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he produced paintings, prints, and drawings that explore the subtlety and scope of the neutral shade, as well as its relationship to light and perception of space. This is the first exhibition of Howell’s work on Long Island, a place that deeply impacted the artist’s later career. Between 2006 and his death, Howell worked out of his studio in Montauk, where the everchanging nature of the elements—fog, water, and light—provided fresh inspiration for his decades-long fascination with the seemingly infinite array of grays.
Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 is accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published by Hatje Cantz. The publication provides insight into the artist’s meticulous working methods and his relationship to the East End.
Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 is co-organized by Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator and Publications Manager, and Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Parrish Art Museum.
Exhibition Support
Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the James Howell Foundation and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
About Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes presents the decade-long project of the well-known photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948) for the first time at the Parrish Art Museum. Acquired by the Museum in 2022, the photolithograph series explores Sugimoto’s unwavering interest in the incremental atmospheric changes around vast bodies of water. Beginning in 1980, Sugimoto traveled to remote corners of the world to capture the variable moments where the sky meets the sea—a place of mystery that still intrigues the artist so many years later.
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes is organized by Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator and Publications Manager.
Exhibition Support
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Japan Foundation, New York.
The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.
Closing Reception | Endless Limits and Time Exposed
Open to All Museum Members, Off-Site at the James Howell Foundation
February 5, 6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Members are invited to the James Howell Foundation in New York City for the closing reception of Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 and Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes, including a lecture and book signing with art historian Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D. Both exhibitions are on view at the Parrish through February 8.
Advanced registration is required. Limited space is available. Not a Parrish member? Join today →
About Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014
The Parrish Art Museum presents an exhibition of the work of James Howell (American, 1935–2014), an artist known for his minimalist paintings that explore the vast tonal range of the color gray. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he produced paintings, prints, and drawings that explore the subtlety and scope of the neutral shade, as well as its relationship to light and perception of space. This is the first exhibition of Howell’s work on Long Island, a place that deeply impacted the artist’s later career. Between 2006 and his death, Howell worked out of his studio in Montauk, where the everchanging nature of the elements—fog, water, and light—provided fresh inspiration for his decades-long fascination with the seemingly infinite array of grays.
Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 is accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published by Hatje Cantz. The publication provides insight into the artist’s meticulous working methods and his relationship to the East End.
Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 is co-organized by Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator and Publications Manager, and Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Parrish Art Museum.
Exhibition Support
Endless Limits: The Work of James Howell, 1962–2014 is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the James Howell Foundation and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
About Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes presents the decade-long project of the well-known photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948) for the first time at the Parrish Art Museum. Acquired by the Museum in 2022, the photolithograph series explores Sugimoto’s unwavering interest in the incremental atmospheric changes around vast bodies of water. Beginning in 1980, Sugimoto traveled to remote corners of the world to capture the variable moments where the sky meets the sea—a place of mystery that still intrigues the artist so many years later.
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes is organized by Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator and Publications Manager.
Exhibition Support
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Japan Foundation, New York.
The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.
