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GALLERY TOUR: ARTIST MEMBERS EXHIBITION HONOREES

Join Guild Hall’s Director of Visual Arts, Melanie Crader and Honorable Mention artists for an artist-led gallery tour of Guild Hall’s 85th Artist Members Exhibition.

Awards Juror Storm Ascher, founder of Superposition Gallery and The Hamptons Black Arts Council, selected Michael A. Butler of Sag Harbor as the Top Honors recipient for his work Lilies of the Field.

In addition to the Top Honors prize, Ascher awarded Honorable Mentions to Lilah Yektai, Ross Watts, Anita Giraldo, Raphael Ogoe, and Kenneth Jackson.

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. 

AME 2024 Awards Juror: Storm Ascher
Storm Ascher is an independent curator, writer, and founder of Superposition Gallery and The Hamptons Black Arts Council.

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

ARTIST TALK: PETER DAYTON & MELANIE CRADER

In conjunction with the installation, Peter Dayton: Dark Garden, Guild Hall exhibiting artist, Peter Dayton, will join Melanie Crader, Guild Hall’s Director of Visual Arts, for a conversation on the installation and Dayton’s wide-ranging practice – from punk rock to site-specific installations. 

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.

JULIAN SCHNABEL: SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY SOUTH, NORTH, AND & TITO SPIGA EXHIBITION SPACE

Julian Schnabel is a leading figure among the artists who reinvigorated the practice of painting in the late 1970s, adopting unconventional materials and ways to use them to create monumental works. He remains one of the seminal and most prolific artists of the last four decades and has been a significant figure in contemporary art discourse since his first New York solo show at Mary Boone Gallery in 1979. His experimental and often revolutionary approach extends throughout his creative work in various mediums—including painting, sculpture, architecture, and award-winning feature films. Every aspect of his life is filtered through a painter’s lens, as Schnabel lives and works in carefully considered spaces, often en plein air, surrounded by objects dating from antiquity to the present, many created by artists and artist friends, both living and dead, and by the artist himself.

Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home presents a selection of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures from his personal collection—the works he has chosen to keep for himself and to live among. The works on view, made over the last 45 years, include an early wax painting, Procession (for Jean Vigo) from 1979; Salinas Cruz, a painting on velvet from 1984; paintings on printed materials and tarpaulins; and multiple plate paintings, which show the different possibilities of working in this manner and with this specific material over decades. Schnabel’s art evokes a deep yet elusive connection to humanity. The installation of his large-scale works within Guild Hall’s intimate galleries offers visitors an all-encompassing, contemplative experience—a rare opportunity to lose oneself in the artworks, their history, and their transformation —and to capture a sense of time suspended.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts, in close collaboration with the artist, and Patrick Hillman, executive assistant to Julian Schnabel.

Following the success of their 2022 summer pop-up in East Hampton, TASCHEN is thrilled to return to the Hamptons, partnering with the cultural heart of the East End – Guild Hall.

Coinciding with the opening of Guild Hall’s summer exhibition Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home, TASCHEN will transform a section of the historic museum into a fully operational pop-up shop.

The TASCHEN pop-up will feature several Julian Schnabel x TASCHEN projects, including an exclusive collection of hand-painted skateboards by the artist, available to US collectors for the first time. The pop-up will also showcase limited edition book projects with contemporaries such as Annie Leibovitz and David Hockney, alongside a curated selection of TASCHEN’s most celebrated art books, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York. Portrait of a City, and Peter Beard.

The TASCHEN Pop-Up at Guild Hall is open to the public Thursday to Sunday, 12–5 PM and before theater programs.

A CONVERSATION WITH JULIAN SCHNABEL

In conjunction with the exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home, please join us for a conversation between Julian Schnabel and artist Will St. John, discussing Schnabel’s artistic practice, spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, film and more. 

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

Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition, TASCHEN will transform a section of the museum into a fully operational pop-up shop. To celebrate the opening, TASCHEN and Guild Hall will host a book signing of Julian’s new retrospective monograph, Julian Schnabel, following the conversation. For your convenience as a ticket holder, the book can be purchased in advance of Saturday’s talk to be picked up and signed after the program. Click HERE to pre-purchase the book.

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

EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 26!

SHOP THE SHOW 

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 Top Honors Award recipient is given a future solo exhibition at Guild Hall. 

Awards Juror Storm Ascher selected Michael A. Butler of Sag Harbor as the Top Honors recipient for his work Lilies of the Field. Michael Butler is an artist, historian, and humanitarian, and describes himself as an intuitive self-taught artist, defining his style as narrative folk art and primarily works in acrylic. The intricate details in his small-scale works have a powerful impact.

In addition to the Top Honors prize, Ascher awarded Honorable Mentions to Lilah Yektai, Ross Watts, Anita Giraldo, Raphael Ogoe, and Kenneth Jackson.

To Artists and Art Purchasers:
New pickup dates are Thursday, January 30, Friday, January 31, and Saturday, February 1, from 10 AM-4 PM. Artwork will not be mailed.

Galleries are 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

EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 26!

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY NORTH/TITO SPIGA EXHIBITION SPACE

Linda Reville Eisenberg is the 2021 Top Honors winner of the 83rd Artist Members Exhibition, selected by Antwaun Sargent, Gagosian director and curator.

Eisenberg explores a variety of genres within the art historical canon as a form of meditation and a means to establish a personal connection to her subject matter. She drew inspiration initially from 1920s German portraiture and later from the Dutch still-life tradition and the concept of the memento mori. Both her portraits and her still-life paintings have minimal backgrounds—in contrast to the opulence and abundance characteristic of seventeenth-century still-lifes—placing the focus on a singular subject or object. The final compositions combine painting from life, from personal photographs, and from imagery collected from various sources. The objects she paints are accentuated by the negative space surrounding them, which is as important as the objects themselves. The works selected for the presentation Still emphasize the intimate connection between creator and subject matter, as for Eisenberg, painting is an act of discovery and curiosity, akin to meeting a new person. Capturing the timeless and universal qualities of still life, her spare paintings elevate her subjects, celebrating quiet simplicity and offering calm amid the clamor of contemporary life.

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

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