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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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Dorothea Rockburne (American, born Canada, 1932), Egyptian Painting: Sahura, 1980. Conté crayon, pencil, oil, and gesso on folded linen with wall drawing, 93 x 64 1/4 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of the Prop Foundation, 2013.11

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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William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), Park in Brooklyn, ca. 1887. Oil on panel, 16 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Littlejohn Collection, 1961.5.11

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 (American, 1906–1992), Untitled, 1953. Oil and gouache on paper, 22 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Richard I. Adrian, 2012.14.5

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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Joe Fig (American, born 1958), April and Eric, August 10, 2004, 2005–2006. Mixed media, 29 x 96 x 48 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Rita Krauss, 2015.34

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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Installation View: Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, August 7–October 16, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

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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Permanent Transience: Toni Ross

Installation View: Parrish Road Show 2016, Toni Ross: Permanent Transience at Marders, Bridgehampton, New York, August 20–September 5, 2016. Photo: Jenny Gorman

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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Installation View: Parrish Road Show 2016, Bastienne Schmidt: Archeology of Time at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum, August 7–August 24, 2016.

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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Installation view: Radical Seafaring at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8–July 24, 2016. Photo: Jenny Gorman

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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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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