Christina Strassfield has known Jeff Muhs for 30 years and has followed his work’s evolution. Join her as she asks in-depth questions on how and what his inspiration is for creating these unique works of art and what compels him to work across different media simultaneously.
Jeff Muhs was the “Top Honors” winner of the 2018 Artist Members Exhibition, selected by Connie Choi, Associate Curator,The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York. Muhs is a contemporary American artist known for both his paintings and sculptures. Engaged in exploring art history as well as using found materials, the artist’s practice includes blurred versions of paintings, expressive abstractions based on the Long Island landscape, and concrete sculptures of female torsos tightly bonded in various materials. Born in 1966 in Southampton, NY, his father was a sculptor who taught Muhs wood carving at a young age. Going on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York during the mid-1980s, Muhs directed his focus towards painting before returning to sculpture later in his career. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, among others. Muhs continues to work from his studio in Southampton, NY.
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Join Christina Strassfield for the opportunity to learn more about individual works of art as she talks about a selection of works from the holdings of over 2400 works that reside in the Permanent Collection. Strassfield has chosen 90 works from all media to show the historical contribution of artists of the area. Over her nearly 30 year tenure Strassfield has been personally responsible for attaining many of these donations for the Permanent Collection.
90 Years, curated by Christina Mossaides Strassfied, is a selection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper showcasing 90 years of collecting Artists of the Eastern End of Long Island. From its earliest days, the museum collected and showcased artists who lived and worked in the area. The mission of the museum has held fast and a selection over 2,500 works will be featured including works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Roy Lichtenstein.
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Join Jeff Muhs, winner of the 2018 Artist Members Exhibition, for an up-close and personal tour with the artist discussing his sculptures and paintings followed by Q & A.
This is a unique opportunity to learn about the artist’s technique and innovative process of using cement as his sculptural medium and to examine the various series of paintings included in this exhibition.
Winner of the 2018 Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition
Jeff Muhs was selected by Connie Choi, Associate Curator, The Studio Museum of Harlem., New York. Jeff Muhs is a contemporary American artist known for both his paintings and sculptures. Engaged in exploring art history as well as using found materials, the artist’s practice includes blurred versions of paintings, expressive abstractions based on the Long Island landscape, and concrete sculptures of female torsos tightly bonded in various materials. Born in 1966 in Southampton, NY, his father was a sculptor who taught Muhs wood carving at a young age. Going on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York during the mid-1980s, Muhs directed his focus towards painting before returning to sculpture later in his career. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, among others. Muhs continues to work from his studio in Southampton, NY.
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Interdisciplinary artist Andrea Cote and choreographer Ann Robideaux will activate theMinikes Garden as a place to gather amid a video installation accompanied by live sound by Chris Jones, and curated by Christina Mossiades Strassfield, Museum Director and Chief Curator.
The project explores how we embody personal and communal movement languages, through containment and connection in domestic and public spheres. The artists invited both professional dancers and recreational movers to explore movement inside six-foot square sheets delineated with geometric forms and cosmological patterns. As we occupy this present liminal zone, the artists create a place for visitors to inhabit that is at once intimate and communal.
Reservations are not required. Simply drop in over the course of their time in the garden!
The eAT Coffee Bar will be open for drinks and refreshments!
Join Museum Director/Chief Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield for an intimate tour of Robert Longo’s A History of the Present.
This long-awaited exhibition is a celebration of and a critical investigation into the span of American history bookended by Abstract Expressionism and the current moment in which we live. In two adjacent galleries Longo juxtaposes America’s past with its present through 17 monumental, highly labor-intensive charcoal drawings that act as mirrors into history.
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In collaboration with Dia: and in honor of her exhibition at Dia: Bridgehampton, we welcome Maren Hassinger back to the East End. Donna De Salvo, former curator at the Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall’s Museum Director/Chief Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield, will engage in a conversation with Maren on her current exhibition, her new work, and her time on the East End.
For more about Maren Hassinger’s exhibition at Dia: click HERE.
THIS PROGRAM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE INDOORS IN THE JOHN DREW THEATER. Guests attending any INDOOR John Drew Theater programs must show proof of FULL vaccination. At this time, only fully vaccinated guests are permitted to attend programs in the indoor theater. Face coverings are required indoors for all guests, regardless of vaccinated status.
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The Artist Profile Archive presents a new documentary, Present History, on acclaimed contemporary artist Robert Longo, directed by Sophie Chahinian. The film, told in the artist’s own words, captures insights into Longo’s current exhibition A History of the Present and shares the artist’s vision for his future while discussing his upcoming inaugural exhibition at Pace Gallery. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Robert Longo and Sophie Chahinian, founder of The Artist Profile Archive, moderated by Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/ Chief Curator. Excerpts from the film make up a shorter documentary that is now on view in Longo’s exhibition.
Film run time: 35 minutes followed by 30 minute Q&A
THIS PROGRAM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE INDOORS IN THE JOHN DREW THEATER. Guests attending any INDOOR John Drew Theater programs must show proof of FULL vaccination. At this time, only fully vaccinated guests are permitted to attend programs in the indoor theater. Face coverings are required indoors for all guests, regardless of vaccinated status.
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Led by science-writer and visual artist, Erica Cirino, Communicating the Plastic Crisis is a series of watercolor and plastic works by student artists at the Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreation Center (BHCCRC). Over the course of four week one-hour art and science workshops, Cirino and the BHCCRC Students engaged in conversations and activities on waste, plastic pollution, and how plastic trash can be repurposed as an art medium of the modern age; conveying the importance of humanity’s relationship to the planet earth and how it might be improved.
BRDIGEHAMPTON CHILDCARE & RECREATION CENTER STUDENT ARTISTS
Nigel Ambercrombie
Zacheriah Michelle
Deyver Cabanas
Jessica Morocho
Anna Bella Delgiorno
Kaylee Munoz
Johnny Delgiorno
Michael Munoz
Jaili Escobar
Johan Otavalo
Daniella Garnica
Alysson Pichon
Samantha Garnica
Ashley Reyes
Kaylee Gordillo
CURATOR
Casey Dalene, Lewis B. Cullman Associate Curator for Learning & Public Engagement
Anthony Madonna, Patti Kenner Senior Associate for Learning & Public Engagement
Materials for Communicating the Plastic Crisis were generously donated by the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund.
Guild Hall and the Elaine de Kooning House are pleased to present a new digital film series by Josephine Meckseper, entitled Moments Choisis.
During her residency at the Elaine de Kooning House, Meckseper will share weekly three to five-minutes film clips — produced and edited by the artist — chronicling the non-linear process of her new works in the studio. The studio’s architecture will be featured in various cinematic modes with layered shots of the artist’s works in progress and the surrounding landscape. The short films will create a unique view of her residency as well as the space and its history.
Each new installment from the film series will become available for viewing on guildhall.org at 12PM EST on Tuesdays, June 22, June 29, July 6, July 13, July 20.
Meckseper’s large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in numerous international biennials and museum shows worldwide, including solo-exhibitions at: Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France (2019); MOSTYN Contemporary Art Gallery, Wales (2018); Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (2014); Kunsthalle Münster, Germany (2009); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2009); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008). Her works are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. The artist lives and works in New York.
Concurrent with the inclusion of her film Mall of America, 2010 in the Whitney Biennial, she was commissioned to create a short film (Amalgamated, 2010) for the museum’s website featuring the museum’s Marcel Breuer architecture. In 2013, Andrea Grover organized Josephine Meckseper: Platform at The Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY. The exhibition challenged traditional disciplinary boundaries by utilizing the entire Museum as a “canvas.”
About Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper, born in Lilienthal, Germany, lives and works in New York. She received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Her large-scale installations, vitrines and films create a window into the collective unconscious of our time. Meckseper’s recent narrative movie Pellea[s], 2018 includes footage of the historical event of the 45th Presidential Inauguration and concurrent protests filmed
by the artist. The artist’s first public project in New York, Manhattan Oil Project, commissioned by Art Production Fund was installed adjacent to Times Square in 2012. Meckseper’s works have been exhibited in numerous international solo museum shows worldwide, including her most recent survey exhibition at the Frac des Pays de la Loire (2019); and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
(2014); The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2013); Kunsthalle Münster, Germany (2009); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2009); and Museum of Modern Art, (with Mikhael Subotzky) New York (2008). Her work was included in numerous biennales, such as the Taipei Biennial 2014, Taiwan, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud (2014); Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, curated by Suzanne
Cotter (2011); Whitney Biennale 2010, New York, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari (2010); the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain, curated by Okwui Enwezor (2006); Whitney Biennial 2006, New York, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne. Her works are in the permanent collections of many major institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Elaine de Kooning House
In 1975, Elaine de Kooning reconciled with her husband Willem and purchased a house on Alewive Brook Road. She added the studio three years later and created her last important bodies of work — the Cave Walls and Cave Paintings (1985-88). She also painted the portrait of the Brazilian soccer player Pele, Motown mogul Berry Gordy, and many others at this time. After her death, the sculptor John Chamberlain owned the property, followed by the painter Richmond Burton.
Since 2011, the Elaine de Kooning House has hosted events, exhibitions, and informal artist residencies with the artists Charles Andresen, Aaron Aujla, Katherine Bernhardt, Lizzi Bougatsos, Joe Bradley, Jessie Dunahoo, Chris Duncan, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Mike Goodlett, Eric Haze, Lonnie Holley, Sedrick Huckaby, Kim “Mudman” Jones, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Laura and Rachel Lancaster, Sadie Laska, Jose Lerma, Liz Markus, Adam Marnie, Katherine McMahon, Scott and Tyson Reeder, John Riepenhoff, Kambel Smith, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Jerry “The Marble Faun” Torre, Michael Williams, and Anke Weyer.
Valparaíso by Aurelio Torres is on view in the Minikes Garden, June 13–July 5, during Museum hours.
For the first Guild Hall After Hours immersive event, Artist, Aurelio Torres, brought us a new participatory installation allowing visitors to contribute in the creation of one of his largescale sculptures. The sculpture, Valparaíso, is reflective of Aurelio’s larger body of work which references ships, sailboats, and other maritime symbols. Chosen as a complement to the exhibition within the museum galleries, Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, Aurelio’s piece is made up of 4 main ‘totems’ or ‘masts’ with attached abstract hull-shaped elements consisting of repurposed building materials. The sculpture was located at the front of Guild Hall during the After Hours event on June 12, where patrons were invited to contribute by creating and attaching a message-in-a-bottle. The bottles consisted of recycled water bottles, wine corks, and a piece of brightly colored fabric. Visitors were prompted to write or illustrate a response to the question: If you could tell the plastics industry something what would it be? The assembled bottle was then attached with twine to the rope system of the sculpture.
The sculpture will be on view in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden, just off of Dunemere Lane, from June 13–July 5 during Museum hours. Enjoy refreshments from our newly expanded eAT Coffee Bar while you sit and view the installation.
