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The Moon Person by Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis, The Moon Person, 2017. Vibrachrome print, 18 x 26 inches. Photo courtesy the artist

Parrish Road Show: Jeremy Dennis

Stories—Dreams, Myths, and Experiences

August 11, 2018–September 3, 2018

Contemporary fine art photographer Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a federally recognized tribe in Southampton, on the East End of Long Island. In his work, Dennis explores indigenous identity, assimilation, and tradition from…
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Andreas Gursky (German, born 1955), Avenue of the Americas, 2001. Chromogenic print, 81 ¼ x 140 ¼ x 2 ½ inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York. © 2018 Andreas Gursky/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn/ Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin/ London.

Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture

March 18–June 17, 2018

Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture is a comprehensive survey that explores the dynamic relationship between architecture, photography, and the viewer. Seen through the lens of historical and architectural photographers from the 1930s to the present, Image Building offers a nuanced perspective on…
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Installation View: 2018 Student Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, February 3–March 8, 2018. Photo: Daniel Gonzalez

2018 Student Exhibition

February 3–March 4, 2018

The annual Student Exhibition, a 60-year tradition at the Parrish, features the work of more than 1,000 young artists from schools on Eastern Long Island. Working with their art teachers and through art clubs, the students demonstrate creativity, enthusiasm, and technical…
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Robert Bechtle, ‘71 Buick, 1972. Oil on canvas, 48 7/8 x 68 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Barrie M. Damson, 1979.

From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today

August 6, 2017–January 21, 2018

From Lens to Eye to Hand reexamines this important movement in contemporary art that found its roots in the late 1960s in California and New York and continues today. Photorealism reintroduced what many considered to be straightforward representation into an art…
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Porter- Jane and Elizabeth

Fairfield Porter (American, 1907–1975), Jane and Elizabeth, 1967. Oil on canvas, 55 1/8 x 48 1/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of Jane Freilicher, 1979.13.2

Fairfield Porter

Permanent Collection Installation

November 4, 2016–October 30, 2017

For many artists, friends and family prove to be the most willing and available subjects. Porter’s portraits of his family in their South Main Street, Southampton house, or in Maine where they frequently spent summers, hover between straight-on depictions of…
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Esteban Vicente (American, born Spain, 1903–2001), Black Susan 1968 Collage on paper mounted on board. 60 x 40 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Promised Gift of the Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation

Drawn in Black and White

Permanent Collection Installation

November 4, 2016–October 30, 2017

Drawing is a basic element of art—a foundational pursuit used by artists not only as a preliminary study for a painting or sculpture, but also as a medium explored in its own right. If drawing is fundamental to the creative…
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Alex Katz (American, born 1927), Portrait of Frank O’Hara, 2009. Photoengraving, 11 x 11 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Lawrence DiCarlo

Poets and Painters

Permanent Collection Installation

November 4, 2016–October 30, 2017

The precise yet commonplace phrases of Frank O’Hara’s poetry comprised a style so distinctive that one critic referred to it as the “I-do-this and then I-do-that school of poetry.” Along with fellow practitioners John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler,…
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Dan Flavin (American, 1933–1996), the nominal three (to William of Ockham), 1963. Cool white fluorescent light, Dimensions variable. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Dorothy Lichtenstein in memory of Roy Lichtenstein and Dan Flavin, 2004.2

Collective Conversation

Permanent Collection Installation

November 4, 2016–October 30, 2017

Works of art can take many forms, and artists throughout history have pushed at the boundaries of the traditional materials of painting, drawing, and sculpture to create powerful visual expressions and experiences. The four works of art on view in…
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Willem de Kooning (American, born Netherlands, 1904–1997), Untitled XXXVIII, 1983. Oil on canvas, 70 x 80 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Museum purchase, Ahmet and Mica Ertegun Fund, Mrs. Lawrence B. Dunham Fund, in Memory of Lilian Haines Crittenden, Alice Crocker Bequest Fund, and with funds from Ambassador and Mrs. Ronald Lauder, and Ahmet and Mica Ertegun, 1997.6

Material Witness

Permanent Collection Installation

November 4, 2016–October 30, 2017

The substance of paint has a material presence—it can be thinly or thickly applied, using a wide variety of tools, in a controlled or loose gesture—and the work of artists in this gallery, all of whom have lived and worked…
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Light | Waves by Clifford Ross

Installation View: Platform 2017, Clifford Ross: Light | Waves at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, July 16–October 15, 2017. Courtesy RYAN LEE Gallery, New York and Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Photo: Lori Morris

Platform: Clifford Ross

Light | Waves

July 16–October 15, 2017

Clifford Ross is a multimedia artist who began his career as a painter and sculptor after graduating from Yale University in 1974. In 1994, after many years of painting and sculpting, Ross became interested in photography, devoting himself to intensive…
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Auto Body: Red Right Return

Installation View: Parrish Road Show 2017, Auto Body: Red Right Return at the Parrish Art Museum, August 1–September 4, 2017. Photo courtesy Auto Body

Parrish Road Show: Auto Body

August 1–September 4, 2017

Parrish Road Show, now in its sixth year, is the Parrish Art Museum’s creative off-site summer series featuring temporary projects by East End artists. Road Show is designed to deeply connect creativity to everyday life by presenting exhibitions and programs in unexpected…
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Installation View: John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 7–July 30, 2017. Photo: Gary Mamay

John Graham: Maverick Modernist

May 7–July 30, 2017

John Graham: Maverick Modernist is a comprehensive survey of significant scope and scholarship, exploring how the artist became an influential figure in the development of a distinctly American approach to art-making in the first half of the twentieth century, and in…
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Installation View: Parrish Perspectives: Recent Acquisitions in Context at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 12–April 23, 2017. Photo: Gary Mamay

Parrish Perspectives: Recent Acquisitions in Context

March 12–April 23, 2017

Parrish Perspectives: Recent Acquisitions in Context showcases a selection of more than 70 works from the more than 300 acquired by the Museum since the opening of the Water Mill building in 2012. The exhibition features work on view at the…
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Opening Reception: 2017 Student Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, January 28–February 26, 2017. Photo: Daniel Gonzalez

2017 Student Exhibition

January 28–February 26, 2017

The annual Student Exhibition, a 60-year tradition at the Parrish, features the work of more than 1,000 young artists from schools on Eastern Long Island. Working with their art teachers and through art clubs, the students demonstrate creativity, enthusiasm, and technical…
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Installation View: Platform 2016: Jonah Bokaer at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, July 9, 2016–January 16, 2017. Photo: Kerry Sharkey-Miller

Platform: Jonah Bokaer

July 9, 2016–January 16, 2017

Jonah Bokaer is an interdisciplinary artist who merges choreography, visual art, film, and artistic research. Bokaer’s Platform project will feature a two-channel projection of a new choreographic work for film, shot within the dramatic vistas of the Parrish Art Museum. The artist…
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Leo Villareal, Particle Universe, 2016. LEDs, custom software and electrical hardware, mirrored stainless steel, 105 x 244 x 6 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York. Photo: Daniel Gonzalez

Artists Choose Artists 2016

October 30, 2016–January 16, 2017

Artists Choose Artists is the Parrish Art Museum’s juried exhibition open to artists working in all media and living on the East End of Long Island. Seven distinguished artists serve as jurors, each selecting two artists for the exhibition, which also…
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Annie Leibovitz (American, born 1949), Chuck Close, 2000. Gelatin silver print, 12 ¾ x 15 ¾ inches. Parrish Art Museum Gift of James Freeman and Laura Lofaro, 2015.25

Picturing Artists

Permanent Collection Installation

November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016

Every portrait photograph is a collaborative effort between photographer and subject. Nowhere is this relationship more evident than when the subject is a fellow artist. Much like the nineteenth-century French photographer Nadar, who captured the images of the great painters…
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Linda K. Alpern (American, born 1951), Tiffany and Greenport Friends, 2004. Selenium-toned gelatin silver print, 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of the artist, 2011.15.3

Close to Home

Permanent Collection Installation

November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016

In images of our everyday surroundings—a clothesline, a fence, family and friends—these seven photographers evoke powerful feelings about home and the people and things that make up our lives. In an interview, Adam Bartos once defined solitude as the state…
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Dan Christensen, American, 1947–2007, Moondowner, 1970. Enamel and acrylic on canvas, 53 x 109 1/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of Harvey M. and Ruth Glesby Wagner, 2009.12.1

Connections and Context

Permanent Collection Installation

November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016

Each fall the Museum introduces a new series of installations of the permanent collection, highlighting recently acquired works and creating different connections and contexts. The goal is to offer inventive ways of looking at the familiar and the unfamiliar, bringing…
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Raymond Parker (American, 1922–1990), Untitled, 1962. Oil on canvas, 72 x 68 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Edward F. Dragon in memory of Alfonso Ossorio, 1992.8.8

Inscape—The Inner Nature Of Things

Permanent Collection Installation

November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016

Can meaning reside in abstraction? The challenge taken up by many artists who paint abstractly is to discover in what ways they can express the unique inner nature of a person, place, thing or event—the emotional feelings generated by everyday…
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