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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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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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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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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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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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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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Creative Partners

March 8, 2014 to April 13, 2014

For more than fifteen years the Parrish has worked in partnership with Southampton and Tuckahoe Schools to bring the highest caliber arts education experiences to their students. This year, from March 8 through April 14, the Museum will present an…
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Abstractly Speaking: Painting and Sculpture

FROM THE PARRISH PERMANENT COLLECTION

March 8, 2014 to April 13, 2014

What, one might ask, is abstract art? By definition, abstract art does not depict a person, place, or thing in the natural world but it can be about many things—like the actual paint on the canvas and the way the…
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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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Parrish Road Show: Almond Zigmund

INTERRUPTIONS REPEATED

August 24, 2013–September 10, 2013

For Interruptions Repeated, artist Almond Zigmund installs two large-scale sculptural works in the parlor of the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historial Museum. Bisecting the room, Zigmund’s blockade-like structures provide a dramatic contrast to the ornate plaster ceiling and carved wooden…
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Parrish Road Show: Sydney Albertini

AND ALSO, I HAVE NO IDEA

August 10, 2013 to September 2, 2013

For And Also, I Have No Idea, artist Sydney Albertini creates a quasi-theater set of her soft sculptures and costumes at the site of the late painter John Little’s former home and studio. For this interactive work, visitors will be…
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Platform: Josephine Meckseper

July 4–October 14, 2013

Internationally-acclaimed artist Josephine Meckseper, known for her film, photography, and installations that conflate art objects with commodities, responds to the museum’s architecture, location, and collection with five large-scale sculptural works installed in the outdoor gallery, lobby, and permanent collection galleries.…
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Parrish Road Show: Jill Musnicki

WHAT COMES AROUND

August 18-19, 2012

What Comes Around is an immersive installation that looks at the natural and built environment of the East End through the lens of strategically placed, motion activated surveillance cameras. Placed in uncultivated landscapes, the cameras document the normally unseen passages…
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Parrish Road Show: Alice Hope

UNDER THE RADAR

August 1-31, 2012

Under the Radar was a temporary installation, composed of thousands of ferrite magnets, situated on an asphalt strip adjacent to Camp Hero State Park’s decommissioned radar tower. Artist Alice Hope is known for her experiments with metals and magnetism, and…
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Parrish Road Show: Jameson Ellis

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Jameson Ellis is an artist who draws inspiration from military and industrial design. Most recently he has been operating in the manner of a Renaissance inventor, creating new, and improving upon existing, designs with a critical eye toward the history…
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Parrish Road Show: Maziar Behrooz

RDMU (RAPID DEPLOYMENT MEDITATION UNIT)

July 27, 2012

Maziar Behrooz’s modified container, RDMU (Rapid Deployment Meditation Unit), designed as a portable retreat and versatile platform for activities, was installed on the lawn of the Arc House. Behrooz is the recipient of many honors, including AIA awards for his…
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Platform: Genius Loci

Inaugural Platform Project by Hope Sandrow

November 10, 2012 to January 31, 2013

In Genius Loci (the prevailing spirit of a place), inaugural Platform artist Hope Sandrow will respond to the opening of the new Parrish by creating temporary installations that integrate art and cultural objects used in rituals and ceremonies that mark a beginning…
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The Landmarks of New York

June 24, 2012 to September 4, 2012

The Landmarks of New York is an exhibition of 90 photographs of some of New York’s more than 1200 landmarks. The exhibition accompanies The Landmarks of New York, Fifth Edition: An Illustrated Record of the City’s Historic Buildings, published in September…
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Liminal Ground: Adam Bartos

Long Island Photographs, 2009–2011

June 24, 2012 to September 4, 2012

The photographs of Adam Bartos convey a wistfulness for the off-grid, the overlooked, and the unremarkable—images of the places in between that might well go unrecorded were they not framed with his virtuoso camera. Much of his photography gives evidence…
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