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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.

FRESH PAINT

Derrick Adams

October 14, 2024–January 5, 2025

This fall, the Parrish Art Museum continues its groundbreaking collaboration with The FLAG Art Foundation with the latest installation of FRESH PAINT, featuring a powerful new work by Derrick Adams. FRESH PAINT spotlights the latest works by both emerging and…
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Charlotte Park (American, 1918–2010). Untitled, c. 1960, gouache on paper, 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. Gift of the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation. 2017.13.87.

Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color

Works from the Permanent Collection 1950–1985

October 27, 2024–March 2, 2025

Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color is a survey comprising more than 70 paintings and works on paper, drawn exclusively from the 2017 gift of works to the Parrish by the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation. Overshadowed by…
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Installation view of 2024 Parrish Road Show | Andrea Cote to Belong to the World (September 14–October 14, 2024) featuring Echo (2024). Photo: Dennis Maroulas.

2024 Parrish Road Show

Andrea Cote: To Belong to the World

September 14–October 14, 2024

For the 2024 Parrish Road Show, Andrea Cote has been invited to create a site-specific exhibition at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton, NY. Composed of uniquely printed fabrics, some of which are suspended as banners from trees and others installed with…
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Lauren Halsey. pride n progress thang, 2024. Mixed media on foil-insulated foam and wood, 120 1/16 x 98 x 23 5/8 inches (305 x 249 x 60 cm). © Lauren Halsey. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.

FRESH PAINT

Lauren Halsey

June 8–August 25, 2024

In collaboration with The FLAG Art Foundation, the Parrish presents FRESH PAINT, a rotating series of single-artwork exhibitions housed in the Creativity Lounge. The inaugural installation features a multi-layered piece by artist Lauren Halsey. FRESH PAINT circumvents traditional exhibition planning…
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Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales installed at the Parrish Art Museum © Estate of Carmen Herrera; Photo Image: Courtesy Parrish Art Museum and Vision Maker Productions, Inc.

Carmen Herrera

Estructuras Monumentales

May 25–December 15, 2024

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…
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Fairfield Porter (American, 1907–1975), Cityscape, ca. 1945, Oil on canvas, 25 x 30, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of Robert Fizdale, in Memory of Arthur Gold, 1991.5

Across the Avenues

Fairfield Porter in New York

February 18–June 16, 2024

Comprised of 27 paintings and prints, Across the Avenues: Fairfield Porter in New York focuses on the cityscapes Porter created of Manhattan between the mid-1940s to mid-1970s. Drawn from the Museum’s vast Porter collection—consisting of over 240 works—Across the Avenues…
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Nell Blaine, American, 1922-1996, Imaginary View of Corsica No. 2, 1953-1954, Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 62 1/8, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of Arthur W. Cohen, 1987.4

Beyond the Horizon

Interpretations of the Landscape from Women in the Permanent Collection

February 18–June 16, 2024

Spanning mural-sized representational oil paintings, expressionistic watercolors and pastel drawings, and intimate mixed-media abstractions, Beyond the Horizon will take viewers on a journey through visual styles and thematic experiences of the landscape. Featured women artists from the permanent collection capture the…
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Student Exhibition Preview Day 2024.

2024 Student Exhibition

March 3–April 7, 2024

The annual Student Exhibition, a tradition for over 70 years at the Parrish, features the work of more than 1,000 young artists from Eastern Long Island schools. Working with their art teachers, after school programs and in art clubs, the…
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Installation view of KAWS: TIME OFF at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (July 14–October 13, 2024). Photo: Jason Schmidt.

KAWS

TIME OFF

July 14–October 13, 2024

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…
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Installation view of Julia Chiang: The Glows and The Blows at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (July 14–October 13, 2024). Photo: Jason Schmidt.

Julia Chiang

The Glows and The Blows

July 14–October 13, 2024

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…
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Installation view of Eddie Martinez: Buflies at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (June 30–September 29, 2024). Photo: © Gary Mamay.

Eddie Martinez

Buflies

June 30–September 29, 2024

Celebrated for his bright, bold, and colorful paintings, Eddie Martinez will present a new body of work made specifically for the Parrish. Taking full advantage of the Museum’s expansive space and high ceilings, Martinez is creating six 12-foot tall Bufly…
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Installation view of Sam Moyer: Ferns Teeth at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (June 30–September 29, 2024). Photo: © Gary Mamay.

Sam Moyer

Ferns Teeth

June 30–September 29, 2024

Sam Moyer: Ferns Teeth is a survey of the artist’s varied approaches to working with stone, a primary material for Moyer over the past ten years. Fascinated by the geologic time of rock and its many industrial and architectural uses,…
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Installation View: The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, April 21–June 30, 2024. Photo: © Gary Mamay.

The Art of Food

From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

April 21–June 30, 2024

The Art of Food focuses on food as an essential cultural component that builds communities and fortifies human relationships. More than one hundred drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and ceramics by thirty-seven artists from the Jordan Schnitzer Foundation will be exhibited.…
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Simón Vega, Tropical Mercury Capsule, Wood, metal roofing sheet, recycled materials, found objects, light, live plants. 250 x 140 cms. 2012. Courtesy the Artist.

Simón Vega

Tropical Space Castaways

February 25–June 30, 2024

Salvadoran artist Simón Vega creates drawings, objects, sculptural installations, and happenings inspired by the self-made informal architecture, local market stands, and vendor carts found in the streets and beaches of Central America. These works, assembled with wood, cardboard, plastic, metal,…
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Hiroyuki Hamada, September 2023. Photo by Lisa Tamburini.

Road Show 2023

Hiroyuki Hamada: Matter on Ground

September 9 to October 10, 2023

For the 2023 Parrish Road Show, Hiroyuki Hamada (Japanese, born 1968) was invited to create a site-specific exhibition at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton, NY. Now in its twelfth year, Parrish Road Show is…
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Installation View: Studio Lenca: Chisme at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 12–April 26, 2022. Photo: Jessica Dalene

Studio Lenca: Chisme

Jose Campos

March 12–April 16, 2023

Studio Lenca (Jose Campos) presents an installation of 15 painted woodcut figures depicting vibrant Latin migrant workers. Chisme was completed in partnership with WeCount!, a membership-led organization of low-wage immigrant workers in South Florida who made drawings of plants, trees,…
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Installation View: 2023 Student Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 12–April 16, 2023. Photo: Kerry Sharkey-Miller

2023 Student Exhibition

March 12–April 16, 2023

Participating schools in the 2023 Student Exhibition include: High Schools: Bellport, Bridgehampton, Center Moriches, East Hampton, Eastport South Manor, Gary D. Bixhorn Technical Center, Hampton Bays, Mattituck, Miller Place, Pierson, Riverhead, The Ross School, Shelter Island, Shoreham Wading River High School, Southampton High…
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Kahlo: An Expanded Body

November 19, 2022–April 2, 2023

Kahlo: An Expanded Body is a groundbreaking investigation into iconic artist Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) through the lens of her dramatic medical history and its sustained impact on her life and work. The multi-gallery exhibition provides new insight into the…
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An Expanded Muse

Works from the Permanent Collection

November 20, 2022–April 2, 2023

In tandem with Kahlo: An Expanded Body, this William Merritt Chase and Alice Gerson—Mrs. Chase—exhibition from the Museum’s permanent collection highlights the importance of family participation and the theatrical flair of the portrait models. In the Chase household, it was…
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An Expanded Portrait

Works from the Permanent Collection

November 20, 2022–April 2, 2023

In dialogue with Kahlo: An Expanded Body, the Museum’s collection-based exhibition An Expanded Portrait features sixteen women artists exploring self-representation and particular manners in which women experience the world. The selected works on view sew a thread between self-agency, mortality,…
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