LINDA REVILLE EISENBERG: STILL

Installation view of Linda Reville Eisenberg: Still, November 17, 2024 – January 5, 2025. Guild Hall, East Hampton. Photo: Gary Mamay

Tag: Visual Arts

Joyce Kubat: My People

Spiga Gallery

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

Joyce Kubat is the Top Honors recipient of the 79th 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.

Curator: Casey Dalene

Joyce Kubat: My People

 

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.

Tony Oursler: 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.

Yung Jake: cartoons

Yung Jake: cartoons

u have entered a space that is in flux. a collection of ideas that have led us here (now). Some of them r mine some of them r urs.
cartoons do whatever they want regardless of the laws of physics. to me, this is Evidence that reality is an illusion. once u’ve realized this u’ll b infused w the superpower of cartoons: the ability to DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. i don’t care what you do in this room or what u do to the artwork as long as you have fun
@yungjake

April 20–May 27
Private Member Reception: April 20, 5–7pm
Gallery Talk with Yung Jake, Tripoli Patterson (Gallery Owner), Katherine McMahon (ARTNews): May 5, 2–4pm
Moran and Spiga Galleries
Christina Strassfield, Curator

For the exhibition, cartoons, the artist Yung Jake has created a new body of work related to the narrative and characters in his animated stories. The storyline in Jake’s animations revolves around a character named Kelvin. The plot is shaped into various vignettes about the environment, culture and the society in which Kelvin lives. In the Moran and Spiga Galleries, elements of Jake’s cartoon will be displayed in various formats including videos, drawings, and an immersive installation.

 

Christine Sciulli: Phosphene Dreams

Christine Sciulli: Phosphene Dreams

April 20–May 27
Private Member Reception: April 20, 5–7pm
Gallery Talk with Christine Sciulli: May 4, 2–4pm
Vocal Soundscapes with Jolie Parcher of Mandala Yoga: May 15, 6pm
Woodhouse Gallery
Christina Strassfield, Curator

Christine Sciulli’s primary medium is light. Sciulli allows the architecture of a room to dictate the composition of her work and then transforms the space to that vision. In Phosphene Dreams, a site-specific installation in Guild Hall’s Woodhouse Gallery, Sciulli will explore qualities of rigidity and fluidity by projecting light onto suspended fabric forms to create an illuminated and voluminous sculpture. Viewers are invited to be immersed in the environment and choose from a variety of perspectives and places to sit, linger, play, and interact with the work, as atmospheric shapes appear to grow and dissolve around the gallery.

ugo rondinone: sunny days

All Galleries
Christina Mossaides Strassfield, Curator

Private Member Reception – August 10, 2019
Conversation with Ugo Rondinone and Bob Nickas – August 10, 2019

Guild Hall is delighted to be presenting works by the renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone in the exhibition, sunny days, featuring sun-themed sculpture and paintings, as well as a collaboration with area school children. The exhibition, which explores the sun as a motif and metaphor, is divided into three parts: paintings, sculptures, and a community art project.

In a new series of eight “sun paintings,” Rondinone references the radiance and universal symbolism of the sun. He has incorporated this imagery in his work since 1991, and uses canvas spray-painted with soft concentric yellow rings as a representation of the sun and the impossibility of seeing its form with the naked eye. These eight paintings will be installed in Guild Hall’s Woodhouse Gallery.

A selection of large sun sculptures will be placed at alternating angles in Guild Hall’s Moran Gallery. These large-scale circular rings are made from vine branches which were cast in aluminum and then gilded. The artist chose to depict the vine as a symbol of renewal because of its life cycle from growth to dormancy and rebirth to a fruitful state every year—reminiscent of the solar cycle.

Following similar projects that Rondinone has carried out in Rotterdam, Shanghai, Rome, Berkeley, Cincinnati and Moscow, the artist has invited children from the East End to help him create a gallery of sun drawings. Students from local schools, daycare centers and afterschool programs will participate and create depictions of the sun to be displayed salon style in the Spiga Gallery.

Rondinone, who has a home on the North Fork, is a New York-based, Swiss-born mixed-media artist who has spent the last 25 years working in a diverse range of mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and sculpture. Whether trance-inducing mandala paintings, large-scale drawings from nature, moody multi-channel video environments, painted stone sculptures, or full-scale clown figures, Rondinone moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction. Rondinone often incorporates the theme of time and space in his work and explores the emotional and psychic understanding found in the most basic elements of everyday life; in this exhibition it is the Sun and its radiance.

Ugo Rondinone has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at institutions, including Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Place Vendôme, Paris; MACRO and Mercati di Traiano, Rome; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum Anahuacalli, Mexico City; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna; and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium. In 2016, Rondinone’s large-scale public work seven magic mountains opened outside Las Vegas, co-produced by the Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art. In 2017, Rondinone curated a city-wide exhibition, Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno, which honored the artist’s life partner in thirteen venues throughout Manhattan.

81st Artist Members Exhibition

Meet the Winners – March 16, 2019
Museum Director’s Choice with Christina Mossaides Strassfield – March 18, 2019
Executive Director’s Choice with Andrea Grover – March 25, 2019
Curatorial Assistant’s Choice with Casey Dalene – April 1, 2019

Organized by Casey Dalene, Curatorial Assistant/Registrar 

Installation design by Christina M. Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator

Guest Juror: Jocelyn Miller, Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1

For 81 years, Guild Hall Museum has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. This is the oldest non-juried museum exhibition on Long Island and one of the few non-juried exhibitions still running. This community-centered exhibition is an opportunity to celebrate the artists who live and work here. Artists from every level participate in this exhibition to show their support of Guild Hall and its role in their life as their community Museum, Theater and Educational Art Center. 

Guild Hall 81st Artist Members Exhibition Winners

Mary Boochever (Moran Gallery)
Amanda Church (Spiga Gallery)
Jeanette Martone (Woodhouse Gallery)
Stephanie Powell (Woodhouse Gallery)
Marsha Gold Gayer (Woodhouse Gallery)
Monica Banks (Moran Gallery)
Barbara Dayton (Woodhouse Gallery)
Daniel Jones (Woodhouse Gallery)
Beth Lee (Spiga Gallery)
Julie Spain (Moran Gallery)

Check Baker (Woodhouse Gallery)

Geoff Kuzara (Spiga Gallery)

Joan Santos (Moran Gallery)

Lindsay Morris (Moran Gallery)

Linda Capello (Woodhouse Gallery)

Marilyn Church (Moran Gallery)

Hilary Helfant (Moran Gallery)

Darlene Charneco (Moran Gallery)

The Annual Guild Hall Artist Member Exhibition has often been referred to as the opening of the Art Season on the East End. It is a lively and vibrant exhibition featuring over 400 works in every medium from Guild Hall’s artist members.

Prizes are awarded in the following categories: Top Honors, Best Abstract, Best Representational, Best Photograph, and Best Work on Paper, Best Mixed Media, Theo Hios Landscape Award, and Honorable Mentions. 

Artist Members Exhibition receives a one-person exhibition in the Spiga Gallery.

27th Student Art Festival

Guild Hall’s 27th Student Art Festival for grades K–12 opens on January 19 with a reception from 2–4pm. The exhibition, on view through February 24, features the art of local students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The opening festivities include performances by the East Hampton High School Dance Team, the East Hampton Middle School Dance Team, A&G Dance Co., and more.

In conjunction with SAF, Guild Hall is offering free art workshops organized by Golden Eagle Artist Supply. Those in K–5th grade will enjoy taking a unique art workshop inspired by the projects exhibited in the galleries.

Guild Hall’s “Word Up!” program brings local poets into the classroom to explore the constructs of poetry through writing assignments. Local middle school poets will then read their poems in the John Drew Theater. All are welcome to attend.

Aubrey Roemer: Blue it!

Aubrey Roemer: Blue it!

Roemer’s mural project Blue It! draws attention to the health of the intricate waterways surrounding the East End. This three-part project began with a public beach clean-up in partnership with The Surfrider Foundation, which took place at Main Beach in East Hampton on October 20 from 11am-1pm. Materials collected on the beach will be used to expose silhouette imagery onto recycled fabric in the rich blue cyanotype process. The printed fabric created at the beach will contribute to a larger collection of cyanotypes created by Roemer and used in a 30-foot mural in the Guild Hall Education Corridor. Altogether, these blue images will amass themselves like the sea, which upon closer examination, will reveal the human-created waste that pollutes it.

*Beach Clean-Up in partnership with The Surfrider Foundation

*Additional support and fabric donations from the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society.

Curated by Casey Dalene, Registrar/Curatorial Assistant/Lewis B. Cullman Associate for Museum Education

Please Send To: Ray Johnson

Please Send To: Ray Johnson, Selections from the Permanent Collection
Woodhouse Gallery
Curated by Jess Frost, Associate Curator/Registrar of the Permanent Collection

Drawn from Guild Hall’s permanent collection, Please Send To: Ray Johnson features over 30 works by the famously reclusive artist, the majority of which are classified as Mail Art, a movement pioneered by Johnson in the 1950s. The artist sent small, mixed-media works to a network of fellow artists through the post, instructing them to intervene in the original work or forward the materials to another person. Mail Art offered Johnson alternative modes of circulating ideas and gaining recognition, and one could argue that these subversive methods anticipated the digital dissemination of images through platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

The cryptic arrangements of notes, doodles, newspaper clippings and rubber stamped texts in these works offer great insights into the shifting social dynamics of this fertile period in American art. As viewers try to decode the visual information presented, they are drawn into Johnson’s complex observations about his immediate art orbit and society at large. Despite regular exhibitions with Feigen Gallery and a 1970 show of his Mail Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the artist remained wary of the public eye. When he retreated to a suburb on Long Island, limiting his communications to the telephone and post, his work became increasingly populated by narratives surrounding the celebrities and members of the art scene he had vacated.

In January of 1995, Johnson ended his life by jumping off the Sag Harbor – North Haven Bridge, a mysterious gesture that was true to his life’s work. This final performance was orchestrated to include a legacy in the form of thousands of works, carefully arranged in his otherwise empty home in Locust Valley. In Johnson’s absence, his works became more readily available for public consumption, and historians began to recognize these works as early examples of Pop art and Conceptual art.

This extensive and important cache of material entered Guild Hall’s Permanent Collection through the Tito Spiga Bequest, for whom one of the museum’s galleries is named. As with all of the museum’s holdings, the works reveal the rich culture and relationships to the region, and the museum’s commitment to preserving that history.