Alexis Rockman (American, born 1962), Scallop (Pectinidae), 2014. Soil from Cedar Point and acrylic polymer on paper, 9 x 12 inches. Courtesy of The Drawing Room, East Hampton. Photo: Jenny Gorman
Alexis Rockman
East End Field Drawings
October 25, 2015–February 28, 2016
Alexis Rockman: East End Field Drawings explores the intersections among art, science, and history. For more than twenty years, Rockman has traveled throughout the world, collaborating with scientists and field researchers to see, experience, and learn about a region’s ecology as inspirations…
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Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson, Water Mill, NY, July 1962. Photo: John Jonas Gruen ©1962
Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson
Seen and Unseen
October 25, 2015–January 18, 2016
This exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper by Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson—two notable figures in American art who emerged from the pursuit of rigorous abstraction to develop highly individual and beautifully compelling approaches to representation, fundamentally reinventing…
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Installation View: Parrish Road Show 2015, Saskia Friedrich: LOVE at Art Barge in Amagansett, New York, August 22 and 26, 2015. Photo: Andrea Grover
Parrish Road Show: Saskia Friedrich
ENCOUNTER/LOVE
August 22, 2015 to August 31, 2015
Site: The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art/The Art Barge 110 Napeague Meadow Road Amagansett, New York Saskia Friedrich works with solid colored fabric that she cuts and arranges in abstract compositions on planar surfaces. For Parrish Road Show, the artist takes…
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Installation View: Parrish Road Show 2015, Tucker Marder: Stampede at 1058 Deerfield Road, Water Mill, New York, August 15–31, 2015. Photo: Jenny Gorman
Parrish Road Show: Tucker Marder
Stampede
August 15, 2015 to August 31, 2015
Site: 1058 Deerfield Road, Water Mill, New York Playfully inventive, Tucker Marder has worked in theater, puppetry, installation, and underwater performance with themes ranging from animal and human behavior to anthropomorphic trees. For Stampede, the artist choreographs an inter-species dance with…
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Andreas Gursky: Landscapes
August 2, 2015 to October 18, 2015
German visual artist Andreas Gursky is renowned for his monumentally scaled photographs—grand urban and natural landscape vistas and large format architecture—created from a dispassionate, omniscient point of view. Highly detailed, Gursky’s images are at once dead-pan observational and transcendent. He…
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Platform: Tara Donovan
July 4, 2015 to October 12, 2015
Tara Donovan has an affinity for materials that other artists might not give a second glance. In her work, she transforms the stuff of everyday life, such as drinking straws, toothpicks, index cards, disposable cups and the like, into formations…
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Chuck Close Photographs
May 10, 2015 to July 26, 2015
This comprehensive survey explores how Chuck Close, perhaps one of the most important figures in contemporary art, has stretched the boundaries of photographic means, methods, and approaches. The photographic origin of each Close painting is well known; however, Close’s exploration…
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Parrish Perspectives: Jules Feiffer
Kill My Mother
March 15, 2015 to April 26, 2015
More than 140 large scale ink and watercolor drawings Jules Feiffer created for his first-ever full scale graphic novel demonstrate how, at the age of 85, this world renowned cartoonist has established an entirely new artistic direction. The installation takes…
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Parrish Perspectives: Joe Zucker
Life & Times of an Orb Weaver
March 15, 2015 to April 26, 2015
A recent gift to the Parrish of nine drawings by Joe Zucker, all studies for a 1992 print project with Riverhouse Editions in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, prompted an in depth look at the working process of this protean artist. For…
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Parrish Perspectives: Robert Dash
Theme and Variations
March 15, 2015 to April 26, 2015
For nearly fifty years Robert Dash (1934–2013) painted and gardened at Madoo (an old Scottish word for “my dove”), a gray-shingled cluster of 18th-century buildings near the ocean in Sagaponack. He recorded epiphanies large and small that transpired in those…
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Face Value
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
The contemporary portraits featured in this gallery show how a longstanding artistic tradition can be made new in the hands of artists working today. These varied works reveal a wide range of approaches to the depiction of face and figure,…
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Material World
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
The works of art brought together in this gallery represent a loose confederation of artists who share an interest in the materiality of the object and its social and symbolic functions. Betty Parson’s career as a gallery owner and advocate…
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Drawings by Sculptors
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
Drawing is a vital practice for sculptors, providing an essential approach to “thinking on paper,” as Alice Aycock has observed. Aycock’s work hovers at the border of art and science and she uses drawing as the laboratory for developing the…
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Still Life in the Studio
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
Still-life painting typically takes as its subject everyday objects arranged in the artist’s studio. In this gallery various approaches to still life are represented, from the more traditional style of artists such as Sheridan Lord and Jane Wilson, to the…
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Esteban Vicente and Collage
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
Esteban Vicente’s death in 2001 at the age of 97 marked the passing of one of the last surviving members of the first generation of New York School Abstract-Expressionist painters. He arrived in the United States in 1936, schooled in…
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Painting Horizons
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
Put simply, the horizon is that line that defines the separation between land or ocean and the sky. If you stand on the beach and look out to sea, scientists tell us that you can, if the day is clear…
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William Merritt Chase: The Shinnecock Years
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
William Merritt Chase first came to paint the Shinnecock Hills in 1891. He was invited by Mrs. Janet Hoyt, who proposed opening a summer art academy based on the plein-air schools then popular in Europe, a strategy she devised to…
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Art. Illuminated.
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
Works of art do not exist in isolation. Although they are created by artists in the studio as unique, individual expressions, once placed in a museum, gallery, or even a home environment, they take on a new meaning. In fact,…
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Land, Sea, Air
Permanent Collection Exhibition
November 8, 2014 to October 25, 2015
The works on paper featured in this exhibition are depictions of landscape that, taken together, encourage us to think about the traditional definition of the term in different ways. Waterways and larger bodies of water play an increasingly important role…
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Parrish Road Show: Evan Desmond Yee
The App Store
August 30, 2014 to October 13, 2014
Evan Desmond Yee at GeekHampton 34 Bay Street, Sag Harbor Get directions to GeekHampton here For The App Store, artist Evan Desmond Yee creates a mock Apple storefront that displays the artist’s sculptural interpretations of iPhone applications. An “App” is a digital program designed to…
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