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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Collective Conversation
Permanent Collection Installation
November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016
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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American Views
Permanent Collection Installation
November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016
Images of the landscape—both real and imagined—have flourished in American art for more than a century, from the great transcendent Hudson River School paintings to the more intimate but no less impressive works created here on the East End. Artists…
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James Brooks: Process of Discovery
Permanent Collection Installation
November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016
James Brooks (1906–1992) was one of the most widely celebrated painters of the 1950s New York school. Born in St. Louis, Brooks grew up in Texas and attended Southern Methodist University from 1923 to 1925, arriving in New York shortly…
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Home Sweet Home
Permanent Collection Installation
November 1, 2015–October 30, 2016
In Winslow Homer’s 1863 painting Home Sweet Home, two Union soldiers sit at a forlorn campsite look at a smoking campfire, hard biscuits on a tin plate, and a rain-soaked pup tent. Contemporary viewers would have immediately associated this title with…
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Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle
August 7–October 16, 2016
Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle features the work of three artists who met in the early 1970s at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles before moving to…
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Parrish Road Show: Toni Ross
PERMANENT TRANSIENCE
August 20–September 5, 2016
Toni Ross is intrigued by the intersection of diverse objects and materials, especially those that defy logic. These concepts are often represented by fine threads that bind powerful, weighty forms. In Permanent Transience, the artist creates a juxtaposition of materials through an…
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Parrish Road Show: Bastienne Schmidt
ARCHEOLOGY OF TIME
August 7–August 24, 2016
Bastienne Schmidt is interested in the documentation and creation of artifacts that carry the patina of memory, history, and time. For Parrish Road Show, she searches the Whaling Museum collection for functional objects that have lattices or grids – such as…
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Radical Seafaring
May 8–July 24, 2016
Radical Seafaring is a multidisciplinary exhibition, publication, and program initiative that will include two-dimensional works, sculptural objects, vessels, models, film and video, off-site commissions, and boat trips around East End waterways. Under the direction of Andrea Grover, Century Arts Foundation Curator…
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