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

Community in Dialogue: Setha Low

Crossing Boundaries and Disciplines: Art and Academic Practices. How do these different practices come together and enrich our East Hampton community? Join Artist Members Exhibition artist Setha Low for this salon conversation. After a brief presentation of the material and metaphorical threads that underlie Low’s art and publications, she will lead a discussion of the multiple ways that Guild Hall is a community public space that supports the multidisciplinary nature of artists. Low argues that a better sense of community and activism can evolve through art and science, and she hopes you will join her in this endeavor.

LUNCH BREAK: 84th Artist Members Exhibition

Lunch Break is a series of open, insightful, participatory, and short discussions about art. Each Lunch Break is led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna and focuses on various ways to absorb and interpret the work of the artists on exhibit.

Participants are welcome to join staff for lunch in the Guild Hall Pantzer Gallery or Minikes Garden after the program. Attendees may bring their own lunch or purchase small bites from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby. *

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 12 PM: Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12 PM: Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 12 PM: 84th Artist Members Exhibition

*Small croissant sandwiches from Tutto Caffè, will be available, first come, first served.

LUNCH BREAK: Chart of the Inner Warp

Lunch Break is a series of open, insightful, participatory, and short discussions about art. Each Lunch Break is led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna and focuses on various ways to absorb and interpret the work of the artists on exhibit.

Participants are welcome to join staff for lunch in the Guild Hall Pantzer Gallery or Minikes Garden after the program. Attendees may bring their own lunch or purchase small bites from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby. *

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 12 PM: Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12 PM: Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 12 PM: 84th Artist Members Exhibition

*Small croissant sandwiches from Tutto Caffè, will be available, first come, first served.

Mary Boochever was chosen by MoMA PS1 Associate Curator Jocelyn Miller as the winner of the 2019 81st Artist Members Exhibition. Deeply rooted in research and investigations of color systems, Boochever creates color experiences for the viewer through her paintings, sculptures, and installations.

LUNCH BREAK: Celestial Garden

Lunch Break is a series of open, insightful, participatory, and short discussions about art. Each Lunch Break is led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna and focuses on various ways to absorb and interpret the work of the artists on exhibit.

Participants are welcome to join staff for lunch in the Guild Hall Pantzer Gallery or Minikes Garden after the program. Attendees may bring their own lunch or purchase small bites from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby. *

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 12 PM: Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12 PM: Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 12 PM: 84th Artist Members Exhibition

*Small croissant sandwiches from Tutto Caffè, will be available, first come, first served.

Leo Villareal’s Celestial Garden (2023) is a monumental light sculpture composed of an array of LEDs diffused through a vinyl membrane and accompanied by a soundscape and artist-designed furniture. Villareal utilizes custom software to orchestrate compositions of perpetually evolving abstract forms inspired by the intricate patterns found in nature.

The artist grew up along the US-Mexico border, and his early interest in Mexican muralism is reflected in the historical references to mark-making in his large-scale works. Although his immersive light installations employ sophisticated technology to generate random sequences that recombine in infinite variations, his focus is on reducing systems to their essence—simple elements such as pixels or the zeros and ones of binary code—to better understand the underlying structures and rules that govern their workings.

Leo Villareal has created light works for museums and public spaces around the globe, including Westminster Bridge in London, the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, the Bleecker Street subway station in New York, and the facade of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp

Mary Boochever was chosen by former MoMA PS1 Associate Curator Jocelyn Miller as the winner of the 2019 81st Artist Members Exhibition. Deeply rooted in research and investigations of color systems, Boochever creates color experiences for the viewer through her paintings, sculptures, and installations.

Mary Boochever’s work will be on view in the Marks Family Gallery North – Tito Spiga Exhibition Space in conjunction with the 2023 Artist Members Exhibition.

Guild Hall’s members exhibition started in 1938, and serves as an opportunity for any current museum member at any level of artistic practice. The popular, democratic exhibition typically yields over 300 entries. A long tradition that is deeply rooted in the history of the East End’s artist colony, early participants included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, James Brooks, Charlotte Park, and many more.

GALLERY HOURS
Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM
Admission is FREE

Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar featuring Tutto Caffè is open in the lobby during gallery hours. Refreshments are not allowed in the galleries but may be enjoyed in the lobby and in our gardens.

Guild Hall’s 84th Artist Members Exhibition

Click HERE to browse works for sale. Details below.

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 shown alongside those of emerging talents and first-time exhibitors, offering a sampling of artistic practices within our community. Early participants included James Brooks, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, Charlotte Park, Jackson Pollock, and many more.

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. Click HERE to shop the show.

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. Virginia Lebermann, Ballroom Marfa cofounder and board president and East End resident, served as this year’s juror.

2023 TOP HONORS
Claire Watson, Bye Gone

2023 HONORABLE MENTIONS
Michael Butler, The Pepperidge Tree
Philippe Cheng, Untitled
Isla Hansen, Hand Tools (or Tools for No Masters)
Mary Margaret Lambert, Revenant
Chris Siefert, Rib

2023 JUROR’S SPECIAL AWARD
Robert Longo, Untitled (After Cave Painting in Lascaux)

Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp is on view in the Marks Family Gallery North–Tito Spiga Exhibition Space. Mary Boochever is the 81st Artist Members Exhibition Top Honors Award recipient.

The exhibitions are organized by director of visual arts Melanie Crader with registrar and exhibition coordinator.

GALLERY HOURS:
Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM
Museum Admission is Free

A series of Lunch Break discussions and Creative Labs will be presented throughout the run of the exhibitions, featuring topics inspired by the works on view and the participating artists.

Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar featuring Tutto Caffè is open in the lobby during gallery hours. Refreshments are not allowed in the galleries but may be enjoyed in the lobby and in our gardens.

Regarding the purchase of artwork from the 84th Artist Members Exhibition:

  • All sales are final. No returns/refunds. The purchase of artwork in not tax-deductible.
  • Guild Hall will soft-pack works for pick-up.
  • All sold work will be available for pick up after the exhibition closes on January 8, 2023.
  • Purchasers of artwork must pick up work from Guild Hall (158 Main Street, East Hampton). Purchased works cannot be mailed or delivered.
  • Dates available for pick up of work sold will be as follows:
    • Thursday, January 11, 2024 from 10 AM to 4 PM
    • Friday, January 12, 2024 from 10 AM to 4 PM
    • Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 10 AM to 4 PM

2023 AME Participating Artists

Marissa R. Abendano

Sandra Feinberg

Susan Malfa

Ty Stroudsburg

Pamela M. Abrahams

Patricia Feiwel

Barbara Malmet

Georgia Suter

Deborah Acquino

Steve Filler

Lynn Martell

Nicolas Tarr

Eugene Adamowicz

Janet Fink

Patricia Maurides

Kevin Teare

Beryl T. Adler

Eric Fischl

Rima Mardoyan

Lieve Thiers

Mary Ahern

Michael Fitzgerald

Sheila McInerney

Jon J. Tierney

Sarah Aibel

Celia Frank

Mike McLaughlin

Aurelio Torres

Bobby Alan

Mark Friedberg

John Melillo

Carlos Torres Machado

Racqurine Alford

Denise Gale

Veronica L. Mezzina

Helen Towey

David Almeida

Gail Gallagher

Monique Millane

Maureen T. Travers

Laurie Anderson

Mr. H. Gallagher

Lisa Miller

Dominique Treboux

Sheril Antonio

Renee Gallanti

Steven B. Miller

Mary Twomey

Ricardo Arango

Marietta Gavaris

Linda Miller

Sharon van Liempt-Brown

Karen Aronson

Elizabeth Geissler

Katherine Milliken

Mary Jane van Zeijts

Russell Asnes

Salvatore Gentile

Desi Minchillo

Rodney P. VenJohn

Jeanine M. Aufiero

Andrew Gershon

James Minet

Karl A. Vermandois

Catherine A. Bachman

Mahbobe Ghods

Lally K. Mockler

Pamela A. Vossen

Monica Banks

Robin Gianis

Joanlee Montefusco

Adele Wallach

Patricia Bany

Ralph Gibson

Wendy Nadler

Claire Watson

Claudia Bedell

Gerard A. Giliberti

Steven Nedboy

Irwin Weinbaum

Whitney Bell

Nina D. Gillman

Carla Nelson

Dan Welden

Kirsten Benfield

Carol Glassman

Thomas Nimmo

Francine D. Whitney

Julia Beynenson

Jessamyn Go

Carl Norr

Deborah Quintal Wick

Barbara Bilotta

Camille Goldner

Kathryn Odell-Hamilton

Robert W. Wilson

Nadia Block

Bryan Greene

Kryn D. Olson

Lucy Winton

Rosalind Brenner

Justin M. Greenwald

Charlene Ortiz

Judith Wit

Stephanie Breslow

Susan G. Guasp

Maureen Palmieri

John W. Wittenberg

Nancy G. Brody

Melinda Hackett

Joyce Parcher

Siu Wong-Camac

Lorinda Bryan

Patricia Hadley

Elizabeth Paris

Amy Worth

Karen Bryce

Laurie Hall

Allen Parsons

Lucinda E. Morrisey

Ayse S. Budak

Laura Halloran

Linda Pasca

Barbara Wyckoff Siris

Kathy Buist

Jerelyn M. Hanrahan

Ellen Paul

Evan Yee

Perry L. Burns

Riin Hansalu

Cynthia Pease Roe

Gus Yero

Michael Butler

Isla T. Hansen

Mark Perry

Charles W. Yoder

Christopher Butler

Allison Harrell Mistier

Goran Petmil

David Yohay

Loretta Campbell

Dena Harris

Lyla Petroske

Cindy Zaglin

Molly Cangiolosi

Victoria Hartman

Daniel Pietrzak

Mustafa Zahir

John Capello

Michael Hastalis

Leila Pinto

Michael Zaidel

Linda Capello

Diane Hatton White

Christopher G. Poli

Almond Zigmund

Michael Cardacino

Lori Hawkins

Gail Postal

  

Ian Carson

Michael Henkel

Gerda Quoohs

  

Philippe Cheng

Michael Hennessey

Ava Rado Harte

  

Gary Chiappa

William C. Heppenheimer

Lawrence H. Randolph

  

Roger Chudzik

Brianna L. Hernández

Cornelia Randolph

  

Marilyn Church

Arline Hershberg

Ronald Reed

  

Amanda Church

Laura Hexner

Susan Retzky

  

Michele Cohen

Eileen Hickey

Linda Reville Eisenberg

  

Mally Colbath

Sharon Hopek

Ryder Ritz

  

DJ Collins

Heather Horowitz

Ann P. Roberts

  

Carolyn Conrad

Erica-Lynn Huberty

Janet Rojas

  

Sue Contessa

Ernest Hutton

Gregg Rosen

  

Nicole Corbett

Eva Iacono

Carol Ross

  

Elizabeth Cordova Alata

Carol Ientile

Susan Rostan

  

Richard L. Corey

Sheryl Intrator

Daniel Runfola

  

Steven Corsano

Kenneth Jackson

Isabella Rupp

  

Edward Cortes

Ruby Jackson

Will Ryan

  

Donna Corvi

Sarah Jaffe Turnbull

Areej Saleh

  

Paula C. Crawford

Mick Johnson & Isabelle Barrymore

Pamela Dalton Salisbury

  

Jody Cukier

Christie Jones

Marian Saltzman

  

Kathryn A. Cunningham

Daniel Jones

Irene Sankari

  

Rosemary D’Elia

Stephanie Joyce

Miriam Sapiro

  

Michele D’Ermo

Erik Kahn

Matthew Satz

  

Regina D’Orazio

Patsy Kahn

Dainis Saulitis

  

Renee Dahl

Jane E. Kastan

Min-Myn J. Schaffner

  

Emma Dahl

Miriam Kazdin

Val Schaffner

  

Rameshwar Das

Christopher Kelly

Bastienne Schmidt

  

Gráinne de Buitléar

Flo Kemp

Walter Schwab

  

Pipi Deer

Victoria Kennaugh

Roseann Schwab

  

James DeMartis

Ellen Kingston

Robert S. Schwarz

  

Zoe Denahy

Karen L. L. Kirshner

Carl Scorza

  

Jeremy Dennis

Dorothy Kopelman

Rosa H. Scott

  

Laurie Densen

Therez Kotula

Anne E. Seelbach

  

Bernadette DeNyse Russell

Joyce Kubat

Alison Seiffer

  

Lisa di Liberto

Mary Martha Lambert

Neva B. Setlow

  

Cynthia DiGiacomo

Antoinette Lanza

Kerry Sharkey-Miller

  

Marie DiLeonardo

Kevin G. Larkin

Andrea Sher

  

Rosalind Dimon

Richard Law

Chris Siefert

  

Sara DiOrazio

Teresa Lawler

Barbara Siegel

  

Lisa Donneson

Lutha Leahy-Miller

George Singer

  

Miriam Dougenis

Jacqueline Leak

Linda Sirow

  

William M. Dougherty

Jacques LeBlanc

David Slater

  

Bruce Dow

Joel Lefkowitz

James Slezak

  

Michael Drakopoulos

Emily Liss

Julie Small-Gamby

  

Robin Du Plessis

Marie Lombardi

Adam Smith

  

A.G. Duggan

Michael K. Longacre

Dennis Snyder

  

Lynn Duryea

Robert Longo

Frank Sofo

  

Lee A. Earle

Setha Low

Julie Spain

  

Paul J. Edelson

Edwina E. Lucas

Burt Spiegel

  

Leslie Edwards

Steven A. Ludsin

Louis Spitalnick

  

Quincy Egginton

Jefferey Macintyre

Janice Stanton

  

Jana T. Eshaghian

Kenna Mackay

Joanna Steidle

  

Roberta Estes

Jean Mahoney

Lisa Steiner

  

Bernice K. Faegenburg

Christa Maiwald

Laura Stroh

  

Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden

ON VIEW AUGUST 5-OCTOBER 16, 2023
Marks Family Gallery South

Leo Villareal’s Celestial Garden (2023) is a monumental light sculpture composed of an array of LEDs diffused through a vinyl membrane and accompanied by a soundscape and artist-designed furniture. Villareal utilizes custom software to orchestrate compositions of perpetually evolving abstract forms inspired by the intricate patterns found in nature.

The artist grew up along the US-Mexico border, and his early interest in Mexican muralism is reflected in the historical references to mark-making in his large-scale works. Although his immersive light installations employ sophisticated technology to generate random sequences that recombine in infinite variations, his focus is on reducing systems to their essence—simple elements such as pixels or the zeros and ones of binary code—to better understand the underlying structures and rules that govern their workings.

Leo Villareal has created light works for museums and public spaces around the globe, including Westminster Bridge in London, the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, the Bleecker Street subway station in New York, and the facade of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Gallery Hours:
Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM
FREE

Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar featuring Tutto Caffè is open in the lobby during gallery hours. Refreshments are not allowed in the galleries but may be enjoyed in the lobby and in our gardens.

Renée Cox: A Proof Of Being

EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 18!
Marks Family Gallery North
Marks Family Gallery North – Tito Spiga Exhibition Space

Renée Cox: A Proof of Being presents a selection of the best-known and most celebrated photographs produced by the artist since 1992. The exhibition traces the evolution of Cox’s practice through a series of performative self-portraits, demonstrating the ways in which she has reclaimed art historical themes in order to explore notions of womanhood, beauty, and agency.

On view in the exhibition are photographs from some of the artist’s most recognizable bodies of work, including her groundbreaking Yo Mama series (1992–94) and her monumental photograph The Signing(2017). Renée Cox: A Proof of Being also marks the New York premiere of a recent work, the immersive video installation Soul Culture (2022).

Organized by Monique Long, independent curator.

Gallery Hours:
Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM
FREE

Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar featuring Tutto Caffè is open in the lobby during gallery hours. Refreshments are not allowed in the galleries but may be enjoyed in the lobby and in our gardens.

 

Now Here – Panel Discussion with the Artists

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to meet the Now Here artists and get an understanding of the artists collective and the site-specific installation, ask questions, and engage with the art.

The No W here Collective, made up of Alice Hope, Toni Ross, and Bastienne Schmidt, will present the off-site exhibition entitled Now Here, Curated by Christina Mossaides Strassfield. The project will primarily respond to the Life Saving Station’s faking box (a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot), seen as the emblematic artifact in the Station’s collection that emanates their mission — to save lives. The faking box, in itself, embodies a formal aesthetic that relates to the Collective’s original artifact and inspiration, the Metropolitan Museum’s Marshallese Navigation Chart.

The collective will show works in the south facing crew quarter’s room on the second floor, the Station’s western facing backyard, and the southeast corner of the wrap around porch, as well as other areas on the site. In the crew’s quarters, the artists will do responsive installations to the room itself and the faking box. The outdoor installations will also be responsive to the site, the faking box, and will include implicit references to the Navigation Chart, from the artists’ non-literal creative perspectives.

About the Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving Station
The Amagansett Station was constructed on Atlantic Avenue in 1902, one of a network of thirty life-saving stations on the South Shore of Long Island. Through each night and in bad weather the crew at these stations kept watch from the lookout tower and by patrolling the beach. Discovering a ship in distress, the life-savers would perform a rescue by launching their surfboat or by firing a line to the ship and taking people off with a breeches buoy. From 1902 to 1937 the crew of the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, most of whom were experienced local fishermen and shore whalers, kept watch over this beach and rescued sailors and passengers from a number of shipwrecks.

The Life-Saving Service and the Lighthouse Service were the two federal programs intended to increase the safety of coastal navigation. These two services were later joined in the U.S. Coast Guard. The Amagansett Life-Saving Station complements the Montauk Point Lighthouse in recalling that era of our maritime history when ships sailing the ocean provided the principal means of transporting goods and people in coastal America.

https://www.amagansettlss.org/

Now Here – Meet the Artists Talk & Walkabout

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to meet the Now Here artists and get an understanding of the artists collective and the site-specific installation, ask questions, and engage with the art.

The No W here Collective, made up of Alice Hope, Toni Ross, and Bastienne Schmidt, will present the off-site exhibition entitled Now Here, Curated by Christina Mossaides Strassfield. The project will primarily respond to the Life Saving Station’s faking box (a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot), seen as the emblematic artifact in the Station’s collection that emanates their mission — to save lives. The faking box, in itself, embodies a formal aesthetic that relates to the Collective’s original artifact and inspiration, the Metropolitan Museum’s Marshallese Navigation Chart.

The collective will show works in the south facing crew quarter’s room on the second floor, the Station’s western facing backyard, and the southeast corner of the wrap around porch, as well as other areas on the site. In the crew’s quarters, the artists will do responsive installations to the room itself and the faking box. The outdoor installations will also be responsive to the site, the faking box, and will include implicit references to the Navigation Chart, from the artists’ non-literal creative perspectives.

About the Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving Station
The Amagansett Station was constructed on Atlantic Avenue in 1902, one of a network of thirty life-saving stations on the South Shore of Long Island. Through each night and in bad weather the crew at these stations kept watch from the lookout tower and by patrolling the beach. Discovering a ship in distress, the life-savers would perform a rescue by launching their surfboat or by firing a line to the ship and taking people off with a breeches buoy. From 1902 to 1937 the crew of the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, most of whom were experienced local fishermen and shore whalers, kept watch over this beach and rescued sailors and passengers from a number of shipwrecks.

The Life-Saving Service and the Lighthouse Service were the two federal programs intended to increase the safety of coastal navigation. These two services were later joined in the U.S. Coast Guard. The Amagansett Life-Saving Station complements the Montauk Point Lighthouse in recalling that era of our maritime history when ships sailing the ocean provided the principal means of transporting goods and people in coastal America.

https://www.amagansettlss.org/