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Installation view: Parrish Perspectives, Lindsay Morris: You Are You at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 13–April 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Parrish Perspectives: Lindsay Morris

You Are You

March 13–April 24, 2016

Parrish Perspectives is a series of concentrated exhibitions that offers the Museum opportunities to respond spontaneously and directly to unique ways of thinking about art, artists, and the creative process. Since 2007 Lindsay Morris has been documenting a weekend summer camp…
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Installation view: Parrish Perspectives, Connie Fox: Self As… at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 13–April 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Parrish Perspectives: Connie Fox

Self As...

March 13–April 24, 2016

Parrish Perspectives is a series of concentrated exhibitions that offers the Museum opportunities to respond spontaneously and directly to unique ways of thinking about art, artists, and the creative process. In 2007, Connie Fox set up a mirror and a bookstand…
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Installation view: Parrish Perspectives, Brian Gaman: Vanishing Point at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 13–April 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Parrish Perspectives: Brian Gaman

Vanishing Point

March 13–April 24, 2016

Parrish Perspectives is a series of concentrated exhibitions that offers the Museum opportunities to respond spontaneously and directly to unique ways of thinking about art, artists, and the creative process. Beginning in the mid-1970s Brian Gaman embarked on a highly personal…
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Installation View: 2016 Student Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, January 30–February 28, 2016. Photo: Daniel Gonzalez

2016 Student Exhibition

January 30–February 28, 2016

Each year, the Parrish Art Museum’s Student Exhibition provides an opportunity for local students to have their work on view in a professional venue. More than 1,000 young artists from private, public, parochial, and home schools participate. Participants in the Student Exhibition explore many…
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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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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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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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William Merritt Chase, The Big Bayberry Bush (The Bayberry Bush), ca. 1895. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 33 1/8 inches. The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Littlejohn Collection

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LOVE by Friedrich. Art Barge in Amagansett, New York

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

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 her striking compositions into the landscape with a floating fabric performance on the water (LOVE)…
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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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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

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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