Virginia Jaramillo:
The Harmony between Line and Space
November 7, 2021–February 27, 2022
A pioneering minimalist whose career has spanned six decades, Virginia Jaramillo (American, b. El Paso, Texas, 1939) creates work from sources that span history and cross cultures. The exhibition brings together never before seen paintings and drawings completed in her…
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Lonnie Holley at the Elaine de Kooning House
Everything That Wasn't White
April 24–November 7, 2021
In five weeks, Holley created over 100 works, including sculpture made largely from objects found on the property. Titles of the work—such as Fragile like a Child, Working to Loosen our Chains, Battered, Blood from the Fields Back Home, and…
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Tomashi Jackson
The Land Claim
July 11—November 7, 2021
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…
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Darlene Charneco
Symbiosome Schoolhouse Parrish Road Show 2021
August 28–October 24, 2021
For the 2021 Parrish Road Show, the Parrish Art Museum has invited Darlene Charneco (American, b. 1971) to create a site-specific exhibition, Symbiosome Schoolhouse, at Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient, NY. She is currently artist-in-residence at the William Steeple Davis…
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Roy Lichtenstein
History in the Making, 1948–1960
August 1–October 24, 2021
Providing an illuminating prologue to the artist’s well-known comics-inspired imagery, History in the Making tells the largely overlooked story of Lichtenstein’s early career, when formal experimentation and a keen eye for irony irrevocably defined his art. Organized with the authorization…
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E Pluribus One
April 18, 2021–September 6, 2021
Avedon’s photograph reminds us of the power of photography to stir our emotions, record our history, and capture both large and small details and this selection from the Parrish collection reveals unity in diversity. Since 2007 Lindsay Morris has been…
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Affinities for Abstraction:
Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020
May 2–July 18, 2021
Often regarded as playing an ancillary role in male-dominated Abstract Expressionism, five painters of the first and second generations of the movement, recently canonized in author Mary Gabriel’s in-depth account Ninth Street Women, spent formative years on the East End.…
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PARRISH ROAD SHOW 2020: SCOTT BLUEDORN
Bonac Blind
October 18, 2020-May 4, 2021
For the 2020 Parrish Road Show, Scott Bluedorn created the Bonac Blind, a floating, mostly handmade dwelling constructed from a repurposed duck blind structure. The work draws attention to the drastic shortage of affordable housing in the Hamptons that has effected a…
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James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing
August 6–October 15, 2023
The Parrish Art Museum is organizing James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing, a comprehensive survey of significant scope comprised of over 100 paintings, prints, and works on paper drawn from public and private U.S. collections. Throughout his long…
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OptoSonic Echoes
August 15–October 31, 2019
OptoSonic Echoes is an 8-channel continuous sound installation positioned at the exterior of the Museum’s north entrance, containing the voices and sounds of participants in the September 27 performance, OptoSonic Tea @ the Parrish, an evening-length group improvisation featuring some…
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Shaping Identity
November 11, 2018–May 22, 2019
Photographer Jeremy Dennis has said that in his art he works towards resolving issues of “indigenous identity, assimilation, and tradition.” A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, he looks to traditional narratives and mythologies for inspiration. The Interment of Pogattacut…
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Joe Zucker
On view through October 6, 2019
THE BOXER In the 1950s art critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term “action painting” to describe the work of the Abstract Expressionists, confirming that a painting was not just a surface on which to paint a picture but one on…
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A Fresh Look: The Collection in Conversation
November 11, 2018–October 6, 2019
Black and white are monochromes but not colors; black is the absence or complete absorption of visible light, a color without hue; white is light—the combination of all the colors on the spectrum. A black and white subject is one…
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Louisa Chase: Below the Surface
November 11, 2018–October 6, 2019
At first glance, you might consider the images created by Louisa Chase playful, sometimes even exuberant—simplified pictographs dancing in a composition of color, environmental forms and figurative representations suspended in layers of gestural mark-making. Upon closer inspection, the imagery reveals…
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Into the Artist’s World: The Photographs of Fred W. McDarrah
November 11, 2018–October 6, 2019
In these portraits of artists from 1959 to 1975, the photographer Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) always seems to be in the right place at the right time. He once said he did not feel as talented as some people, especially…
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Picture
November 11, 2018–October 6, 2019
Picture is a two-part thematic exhibition featuring important recent acquisitions of paintings by David Salle and Photorealist artists. In 2004, Salle was commissioned for Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, to address a single subject: the Sistine Chapel. In three monumental paintings—After Michelangelo, The Creation; After…
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Fairfield Porter Raw: The Creative Process of an American Master
November 11, 2018–October 6, 2019
In 1949, Fairfield Porter (1907–1975) established his home and studio on the East End of Long Island when he moved with his wife and children from New York City into a rambling, nineteenth-century sea captain’s house and adjoining stable on…
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Jean-Luc Mylane: A Matter of Place
March 24–July 28, 2019
Monumentally scaled photographs by the French artist who juxtaposes natural and man-made, stillness and motion, calm and tension within poetic and mysterious photographs. The exhibition reflects the artist’s almost metaphysical approach to image-making. Through his lifetime pursuit to photograph commonplace birds in natural habitats, Mylayne has…
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Parrish Road Show 2019: Candace Hill Montgomery
Hills & Valleys
May 17–June 16, 2019
Now in its eighth year, Parrish Road Show is the Museum’s off-site project designed to encourage engagement and interaction between artists and the communities outside the Museum’s walls. Each year, selected artists work together with the Parrish and partner…
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