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Opening Reception, Carly Haffner: In The Woods

Join us for an Opening Reception in celebration of our 2019 Education Corridor Exhibition, Carly Haffner: In The Woods. Free and open to all, we will celebrate Haffner’s exhibition with champagne, Montauk Brewing Company Beer, a variety of seltzer, light bites from Citarella, and music. Haffner’s exhibition includes a selection of her folk-art-inspired landscape paintings depicting the woods with minimal lines and subtle color shifts, paying homage to another side of the ‘Hamptons.’ Turning the focus away from the sprawling beaches and farm fields to the residential landscape of the year-round community: homes in the woods, yards with old cars, fishing gear, a vintage airstream, etc. Haffner chooses a narrative that carries much more weight for her and her community, resulting in truly captivating works.

High School Awards Ceremony, Student Art Festival: Made by Water

Hosted by Guild Hall’s Teen Art Council, the High School Awards Ceremony is a moment to celebrate and recognize high achievement and creativity in select high school artists whose work is exhibited in the Student Art Festival: Made by Water.

This year’s awards are determined and given by Guest Artist & Juror, Virva Hinnemo. All awardees will receive a certificate of excellence, and the opportunity to speak with the guest artists & juror at the post-ceremony reception.

Opening Reception, Student Art Festival: Made by Water

Join us for an afternoon of workshops and performances as we celebrate the incredible talents and imaginations of our local students in this year’s Student Art Festival: Made by Water.

2–3:15pm: Workshop led by artist, Kym Fulmer

2–3:15pm: Exhibit Open for Viewing/Self-Guided Tours

3:15–4pm: Performances and Film Screenings by local school and community ensembles in our John Drew Theater.

Student Art Festival: Made by Water

Saturday, January 18 – Sunday, February 9

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 25, 2-4pm

FREE ADMISSION

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Oering its 28^th Year, the Guild Hall Student Art Festival is a beloved tradition that celebrates and showcases the artistic achievement and imagination of students on the East End of Long Island.

New to the festival, this year’s SAF is centered around a central theme; Made by Water. Over the fall semester students kindergarten through 12^th grade from Bridgehampton to Montauk have questioned, discussed, and creatively responded to their experiences with our oceans, waterways, and natural landscapes, resulting in an exhibition of diverse yet connected perspectives.

The festival is celebrated through an opening reception on Saturday, January 25. The afternoon will feature family workshops, performances from school and community dance, theater, and music ensembles, and light bites and refreshments.

Opening Reception for Student Art Festival: Made by Water

Gallery Talk with Joyce Kubat

Joyce Kubat is the Top Honors recipient of the 79^th Artist Members Exhibition (2017). Kubat was selected by guest awards juror, Ruba Katrib, who was curator at the Sculpture Center and now curator at MoMA PS1.

In this exhibition Kubat assembles her people, a body of work which she has been developing since 2002. Her media has remained the same and Kubat lets the process lead the way in her deeply psychological figurative works. From pastels applied to damp paper creating a liquid soft skin with deep velvet pigments, to fluid pink inks that have the extraordinary transparency of flesh, these materials have led her to convey an emotionally raw narrative of human anatomy.

The figure has always been my focus, and over the years it’s become a psychological focus, a not-always-easy-to-view focus… Art with only surface excitement seems empty. For me it has to have a serious and profound underpinning, always poignant, often humorous, relating in some way to the universal humanity common to all of us. – Joyce Kubat

Kubat holds a BS in Psychology from Michigan State University and continued her studies in New York City at both Brooklyn College and Art Students League of New York. She lives and works in Huntington, NY and has exhibited throughout Long Island, New York City, Italy, and elsewhere.

Carly Haffner: In The Woods

The 2019 Guild Hall Education Corridor Exhibition, Carly Haffner: In The Woods, will be on view from November 14 – February 23, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, November 14 from 6-8pm, open to all. The Guild Hall Education Corridor is a space adjacent to the Museum galleries that highlights emerging artists living and working on the East End of Long Island. Each year an artist is selected to transform the corridor space with their work and collaborate on programming with the Guild Hall Education Department.

This year, painter and sculptor, Carly Haffner has been chosen as The Guild Hall Education Corridor Artist. Haffner will be working closely with the Education Department and the Teen Arts Council to develop a set design element for the performances in the theater during the Student Art Festival Opening Reception, January 25, 2-4pm. She will also be hosting an evening of painting for adults and young adults, Painting Trees with Carly Haffner, February 20, 6-9pm.

The corridor exhibit, Carly Haffner: In the Woods, is a selection of Haffner’s landscape paintings. Depicting the woods in her folk-art-inspired style with minimal lines and subtle color shifts, the viewer is guided through the landscape paying homage to another side of the ‘Hamptons.’ Turning the focus away from the sprawling beaches and farm fields to the residential landscapes of the year-round community: homes in the woods, yards with old cars, fishing gear, a vintage airstream, etc. Haffner chooses a narrative that carries much more weight for her and her community.

Haffner moved to Springs, East Hampton 36 years ago, and she is the only one of her family that still resides on the East End. A principal painting by Haffner, is one in which she depicts her family home on fire, metaphorically burning down what once was. Drawing attention to an experience that is far too familiar, she touches on the struggle of the local community in the Hamptons. As the region grows in popularity and the cost of living increases, it becomes harder to sustain a comfortable life and Haffner’s view point suggests a concern, particularly for the future of the artist community, which has a deep historic legacy in the area.

In 2005, Haffner was one of five founding members of the Bonac Tonic art collective. A savvy way for artists to support one another, she and her colleagues were able to split the responsibilities and costs, exhibiting regularly at Ashawagh Hall in Springs East Hampton and the Markel Fine Art Gallery in Bridgehampton.

Haffner has a BFA from the California College of the Arts and an MFA from Hunter College, New York City and has exhibited at the Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton and Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton.

Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections from the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection

Guest Curator: Joan Marter, PhD
October 26- December 30, 2019, Moran and Woodhouse Galleries
Reception: October 27, 2-4pm
Gallery Talk: October 27, 1-2pm

This exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture will celebrate the outstanding collection of Abstract Expressionist art owned by Guild Hall. Abstract Expressionism was an avant-garde movement of the 1950s that resulted, in part, from the dynamic interplay of artists working on the East End. Among the participants in this “artist colony” of the Hamptons were permanent residents and summer visitors. Painters included Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, James Brooks and Charlotte Park, Robert Motherwell, and Grace Hartigan among others. Presentation of many works that have not been exhibited in recent years, also brings attention to the digitization of the Guild Hall collection that was completed recently. The Museum has been building a significant collection of Abstract Expressionist works, and prime examples will be combined with loans by artists who created their work on the East End.

The exhibition will include a catalogue with color illustrations of examples in the Guild Hall collection, and an essay that explains the importance of East End artists to the emergence of Abstract Expressionism .

Joan Marter is an American academic, art critic and author with a Ph.D. from The University of Delaware, 1974. Marter is the “Distinguished Professor of Art History” at Rutgers University, the co-editor of the Woman’s Art Journal, the editor of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, the author and co-organizer of Women of Abstract Expressionism in 2016 (Denver Art Museum).

Exhibition Catalogue

Joyce Kubat: My People

Spiga Gallery

Members Reception October 27, 2-4pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, November 16, 2pm

Curator: Casey Dalene

Tony Oursler: Water Memory

Tony Oursler
June 8–July 21, 2019
Gallery Talk with Tony Oursler: July 6, 3–4pm
Private Member Reception: July 6, 4–6pm
All Galleries
Christina Strassfield, Curator

Fresh off his dynamic Public Art Fund Commission, Tear of the Cloud, which was on view at Riverside Park this past October, Guild Hall has turned over the entire museum to Oursler who delves into the subject of water and notions of “magical thinking” on the East End.

Oursler has developed an experimental and innovative practice that utilizes projections, optical devices, audio, video, and sculpture to move images away from the white wall and onto unexpected surfaces or environments. Through this inventive technological approach, the artist explores the ubiquitous element of water as a repository for belief systems—with references that range from sea monsters and evil spirits to cartography and the claimed ability of water memory.

Gallery Talk with Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler
June 8–July 21, 2019
Private Member Reception: July 6, 4–6pm
All Galleries
Christina Strassfield, Curator

Fresh off of his dynamic Public Art Fund Commission, Tear of the Cloud, which was on view at Riverside Park this past October, Guild Hall is pleased to turn over the entire museum to this noted artist who will delve into the subject of water and notions of “magical thinking” for the East End. Oursler has developed a new multimedia series of works which incorporate glass, computers and water. Thematically, the ubiquitous element of water becomes a repository for our belief systems as the artist references the development of cartography and the subsequent vanishing of sea monsters, Hollywood movies and evil maritime spirits, counterculture and the pseudoscience of water memory.

PETER DAYTON: DARK GARDEN

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