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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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: 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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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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Detail of Wunne Ohke–The Return to Good Ground by Denise Silva Dennis
Parrish Road Show 2022
Denise Silva-Dennis: Wunne Ohke–The Return to Good Ground
For the 2022 Parrish Road Show, the Parrish Art Museum has invited Shinnecock artist Denise Silva-Dennis to create an outdoor mural at the Sisters of St. Joseph Villa in Hampton Bays. Wunne Ohke–The Return to Good Ground continues the artist’s…
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