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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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Robert Dash, American, 1931–2013 Evening Blow, 1972 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 108 inches Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of the artist 2009.16

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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Installation view: Joe Zucker (American, born 1941), Boxing Rounds #13, #14, and #15, Extended loan from the Collection of Robert S. Taubman, Courtesy of Marlborough Contemporary, New York and London. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, on view through October 6, 2019. Photo: Gary Mamay

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: 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 Road Show: Michael Combs

Outhouse 2014

August 28, 2014–October 13, 2014

For Outhouse 2014, artist Michael Combs recreates a full size wood outhouse in the architectural style of a “bayhouse,” the traditional fishermen’s shacks that have dotted the marshlands of Long Island for the last three centuries. Combs, who is descended from a 17th…
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Parrish Road Show: Evan Desmond Yee

THE APP STORE

August 30, 2014 to October 13, 2014

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 fulfill a particular real world function and in turn, augment and support the…
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Platform: Maya Lin

Pin River – Sandy

July 4, 2014 to October 13, 2014

How humans experience and impact the landscape is of primary concern to Maya Lin, one of the foremost artists of our time whose ecologically inspired works exist at the intersection of art, architecture, and environmental science. Using technological methods to…
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Abstractly Speaking: Works on Paper

FROM THE PARRISH PERMANENT COLLECTION

March 8, 2014 to April 13, 2014

This gallery continues the investigation of abstraction begun in Gallery One and works on paper by Ilya Bolotowsky, Mary Heilmann, Valerie Jaudon, and Jack Youngerman further reveal the process seen in their paintings on view there. Gertrude Greene spent formative…
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