PETER DAYTON: DARK GARDEN

Site Specific Installation. Peter Dayton, 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯, 2024. Ink on premium vinyl with low-luster laminate and collage overlay. Photo: Gary Mamay

Tag: Visual Arts

PETER DAYTON: DARK GARDEN

Peter Dayton
Dark Garden, 2024
Ink on premium vinyl with
low-luster laminate and collage overlay

After a nearly decade-long career as a punk rock musician, Peter Dayton returned to visual art upon moving to East Hampton in the mid-1980s. Dark Garden is a site-specific installation created for Guild Hall’s stairwell leading from the lobby to the balcony of the Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater. Dayton’s exploration of flowers began when he found discarded issues of House and Garden magazine from the 1950s near his home, and his collages utilize photocopied flowers from seed catalogs, which links his practice to the work of Andy Warhol and other pop artists. He chooses visually arresting images of flowers without leaves and stems—images devoid of sentiment, emotion, or specific references—allowing the flower forms to create their own patterns.

A CONVERSATION WITH JULIAN SCHNABEL

In conjunction with the exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home, please join us for a conversation with the artist about his artistic practice, spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, film and more.

This program will take place in the theater; seating is general admission.

Julian Schnabel is one of the most seminal and prolific artists working today. Guild Hall is pleased to present a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures from his personal collection. Schnabel is a Guild Hall Academy of the Arts member and an Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. He had a solo exhibition at Guild Hall in 1998 and lives and works in Montauk and New York City.

This exhibition will take place in the newly inaugurated Marks Family Galleries.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts.

Galleries will be open Thursday to Monday, 12-5 PM through Labor Day, and Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM after 9/2.

Museum admission is always free.

THE 85TH ARTIST MEMBERS EXHIBITION

The Artist Members Exhibition began in 1938, and Guild Hall continues this long-standing democratic tradition by hosting the oldest non-juried museum exhibition on Long Island. This lively presentation features more than three hundred works and showcases a variety of mediums. As in the traditional salon exhibition, works by established artists are exhibited alongside those of emerging talents and first-time exhibitors, offering a sampling of artistic practices within our community. This initiative provides an opportunity for audiences to support and celebrate the artists who live and work in our immediate region and for artists to sell their works. In turn, artists show their commitment to and support of Guild Hall. Early participants included James Brooks, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, Charlotte Park, Jackson Pollock, and many more.

Guild Hall invites nationally and internationally recognized art professionals to select the Top Honors Award and Honorable Mentions. The recipient of the Top Honors Award is given a future solo exhibition at Guild Hall.

MEMBER PREVIEW DAY: Saturday, November 16, 12-5 PM

ARTIST REGISTRATION BEGINS AUGUST 15, 2024
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Galleries will be open Thursday to Sunday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.

EXHIBITION PREVIEW DAY FOR MEMBERS

Guild Hall members, join us for a preview of the newest exhibitions on view, FIRST LITERATURE PROJECT, SPIN A YARN, and TED CAREY: QUEER AS FOLK. Be the first to tour the galleries and engage with the curators, artists, and staff.

Members can also visit the Boots Lamb Education Center from 12-5 PM for an open studio with cross-disciplinary artist Raul Martinez. Martinez’s work examines the intersections between art and language, and more specifically, the possibilities of using legal language (i.e., employment contracts, traffic rules and regulations, military training codes, etc.) as material for art, dance, and performance. Audiences are invited to join Martinez in a new collaborative in-process piece or begin an individual piece of their own with the materials on-site.

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CONVERSATIONS ACROSS TIME: FIBER ARTS THEN AND NOW

CONVERSATIONS ACROSS TIME: FIBER ARTS THEN AND NOW
with Estrellita Brodsky & Joanne Pillsbury

To close out the exhibition Spin A Yarn, Joanne Pillsbury, specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, will discuss with exhibition curator Estrellita Brodsky two extraordinary textile traditions separated by at least 500 years to explore the striking connections between artist of the ancient Andes and those of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This program will take place in Guild Hall’s newly renovated theater.

Spin a Yarn takes its title from an expression believed to have originated in sailors’ practice of telling stories, often tall tales, while repairing ropes during long sea voyages. Delving into the complex relationship between textile labor and storytelling, the exhibition examines the use of textiles as vehicles for the preservation of memories and knowledge. The terms textile and text are derived from the Latin texere (to weave), and while Western cultures have historically prioritized the written word, many others, particularly in Latin America, have relied on a rich tradition of using threads, knots, and woven materials to record and transmit information.

Spin a Yarn brings together a diverse selection of fiberbased works dating from ancient Andean times to the present. Some of the artists featured reflect on the weavings and feather works of pre-Hispanic cultures as precursors of geometric abstraction, while others explore and build on the embroidery and weaving techniques employed by indigenous peoples across Latin America as a means of advocating for the protection of these communities and the environment. Spin a Yarn casts light on the enduring significance of fiber arts in the modernist canon and the profound impact of indigenous and pre-Hispanic weaving traditions on the development of contemporary art.

This exhibition is curated by Estrellita Brodsky, founder and director of ANOTHER SPACE, New York, with Raul Martinez.

CURATOR TALK: MATTHEW NICHOLS

$12.00 ($10.00 Members)

In conjunction with the exhibition, Ted Carey: Queer as Folk, guest curator Matthew Nichols will discuss the art historical and cultural contexts of Ted Carey’s life and work.  The queer content of Carey’s New York paintings and his tributes to other gay artists will also be examined.

This program, recommended for ages 18 & up, will take place in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center.

Born and raised in Chester, Pennsylvania, Edward “Ted” Fawcett Carey (1932–1985) moved to New York in 1955. There he pursued a career in graphic design, forged a close friendship with Andy Warhol, and later developed a distinctive mode of painting informed by his keen interest in American folk art. While living between New York and East Hampton in the 1970s and 1980s, Carey produced a small yet compelling body of work that mimics aspects of vernacular painting, chronicles his life and relationships, and pictures facets of queer culture. Sharply observed and highly detailed, Carey’s faux-naïf paintings depict some of his favorite haunts in New York and celebrate the creative lives of other gay men.

Indebted to the foresight and generosity of Carey’s longtime partner, this exhibition draws from the Tito Spiga Bequest to Guild Hall. It surveys Ted Carey’s art for the first time since 1985, when an East Hampton gallery mounted a memorial show of his paintings in the days following his death from AIDS.

This exhibition is organized by Matthew Nichols, PhD, independent curator.

Galleries are open Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.

IN CONVERSATION: ANNE BUCKWALTER & MATTHEW NICHOLS

$12.00 ($10.00 Members)

In conjunction with the exhibition, Ted Carey: Queer as Folk, guest curator Matthew Nichols will discuss aspects of the show with artist Anne Buckwalter.  Their talk will explore how Carey and Buckwalter share roots in southeastern Pennsylvania, draw inspiration from regional folk art traditions, and address gender and sexuality in their paintings.

 

This program, recommended for ages 18 & up, will take place in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center.
 

Born and raised in Chester, Pennsylvania, Edward “Ted” Fawcett Carey (1932–1985) moved to New York in 1955. There he pursued a career in graphic design, forged a close friendship with Andy Warhol, and later developed a distinctive mode of painting informed by his keen interest in American folk art. While living between New York and East Hampton in the 1970s and 1980s, Carey produced a small yet compelling body of work that mimics aspects of vernacular painting, chronicles his life and relationships, and pictures facets of queer culture. Sharply observed and highly detailed, Carey’s faux-naïf paintings depict some of his favorite haunts in New York and celebrate the creative lives of other gay men.

Indebted to the foresight and generosity of Carey’s longtime partner, this exhibition draws from the Tito Spiga Bequest to Guild Hall. It surveys Ted Carey’s art for the first time since 1985, when an East Hampton gallery mounted a memorial show of his paintings in the days following his death from AIDS.

This exhibition is organized by Matthew Nichols, PhD, independent curator.

Galleries are open Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.

LINDA REVILLE EISENBERG: STILL

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY NORTH/TITO SPIGA EXHIBITION SPACE

Linda Eisenberg is the 2021 Top Honors winner of the 83rd Artist Members Exhibition selected by Antwaun Sargeant, Gagosian Director and Curator.

Linda uses traditional painting techniques to explore a variety of genres within the art-historical canon. For her presentation at Guild Hall, she will present two focused projects—still-life paintings of vessels and two intimate portraits.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts with Philippa Content, museum registrar and exhibition coordinator.

MEMBER PREVIEW DAY: Saturday, November 16, 12-5 PM

Galleries will be open Thursday to Sunday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.

 

ARTIST TALK: LAURIE LAMBRECHT

In conjunction with the exhibition, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall collection artist Laurie Lambrecht joins Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader in conversation about Laurie’s career and her ongoing project included in the exhibition entitled Inspirations All.

In anticipation of the reopening of the John Drew Theater, the final stage of Guild Hall’s facility-wide renovation, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists celebrates artists who were and are the fabric of the East End artist community and integral to Guild Hall.

The East End has a history of providing an environment for artists to gather and a place of respite and contemplation where many artists work quietly and diligently seasonally and year-round, forming a vibrant creative community. This exhibition of photographic portraits of visual, literary, and performing artists is drawn largely from Guild Hall’s permanent collection, supplemented by projects by Linda K. Alpern, Laurie Lambrecht, and Mark Mann.

Guild Hall was established in 1931 as a gathering place for the community where an appreciation for the arts would “promote a finer type of citizenship.” The institution was the first arts town hall of its kind, encompassing a museum, theater, education center, and meeting space under one roof. Guild Hall’s history parallels that of the American theater and art worlds, with many landmark performances and exhibitions documented in the publication Guild Hall for All (2021).

This exhibition is organized by director of visual arts Melanie Crader.

LOOK ALIVE

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY SOUTH

Join us on Thursday May 2 from 5-7 PM for a pre-closing gathering to experience the culmination of the work for the six featured artists. Click HERE to RSVP.

Look Alive is an evolving studio, gallery, and social space. This unique showcase highlights the thriving emergent creative community on the East End, featuring the works of Harris Allen, Kai Parcher-Charles, Mamoun Nukumanu, Kate Kavanaugh, Kiva Motnyk, and Jasmine Chamberlain, and organized by independent curator Ellie Duke. Utilizing video, sound, sculpture, textile, florals, and other media, each artist will transform the gallery into a collaborative workshop.

Artists will be on-site during the following weekends:

  • March 29 – May 6: Harris Allen
  • March 29 – April 1: Kai Parcher Charles
  • April 5 – April 7: Mamoun Nukumanu
  • April 12 – 15: Kate Kavanaugh
  • April 19 – 21: Kiva Motnyk
  • April 26 – 29: Jasmine Chamberlain

“There is a misconception that the most interesting art on the East End happened in decades past, or that young artists don’t (or can’t) live here anymore,” said curator Ellie Duke. “In fact, I am inspired constantly by the emerging generation of artists on the East End — their scrappiness, their expansiveness, their collaborative spirit. Look Alive was inspired by them, and by the desire to share some of their work and their practice with a broader audience. All of the artists in Look Alive are engaged with the community and landscape of this region — its light, flora and fauna, and inhabitants inspire their practices, which I hope visitors to Guild Hall will find moving and resonant.”

Video artist Harris Allen is on-site March 29th – May 6th, developing his series of “living images,” video sculptures that intimately capture narrative and essence through subtle movement. Existing between a still photograph and a film, these portraits are slowed down to allow the viewer to experience more than is available to the naked eye. The result is a deepened presence with the subject through the dilation of time, and a striking blend of stark minimalism and soft, organic form. Throughout Look Alive, Allen will be creating new works using this technique, including five new “living images” in collaboration with the other artists in the exhibition, which will be displayed alongside their contributions.

Each of the five other artists will be on-site for one weekend, building something in the space that will then stay there for the remainder of the exhibition. March 29th – March 31st, multidisciplinary artist Kai Parcher-Charles explores remixed narratives and the power of abstraction and chance to create a soundscape installation made in collaboration with the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council, as well as visitors to the gallery. April 5th – 7th, Mamoun Nukumanu engages his creative practice of “sacred play,” a symbiotic collaboration between artist and organic matter, building a structure using foraged plant material. April 12th – 14th, natural dye artist Kate Kavanaugh creates a unique silk textile in the gallery utilizing eco-printing techniques and invites visitors to participate in a sound-healing ritual. April 19th – 21st, Kiva Motnyk creates a hand-quilted, natural-dyed patchwork textile and leads a quilting and dye workshop incorporating her techniques and materials. April 26th – 28th, floral artist Jasmine Chamberlain explores the dimensions of emotional landscape through an immersive sculptural floral installation, creating an environment for visitors to engage with.