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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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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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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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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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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: 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: 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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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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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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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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