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

Virtual Studio Visits with Christina Strassfield

Now that we are all home and want to be as productive as possible, take this opportunity to straighten up your studio, get your artist statement in draft form and invite the Guild Hall Museum Director/Chief Curator in! You can register for a 30-minute, remote one-on-one Zoom or studio visit with Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator.  Here is the opportunity to share your work, discuss your direction and get a formal critique of your work. Please register for one 30-minute session.  Registration is on a first come basis.

Session 1: 1-1:30PM

Session 2: 1:35-2:05PM

Session 3: 2:10-2:40pm

“Studio visits are the best part of my job but unfortunately often get pushed and put off because of time constraints.  This is the perfect time to hold this virtual studio visit program so that we can connect with one another and be ready to share actual work once the stay-at-home ban is lifted.  It is always exciting to see work in progress or transitions in an artist’s work.  I welcome the dialogue with the wonderful artists that have been so supportive of Guild Hall.”  – Christina Mossaides Strassfield

Registration Required – Free or additional Donation to support Guild Hall

Link will be emailed 24 hours prior to those who register

Monica Banks: Cloud Garden

Cloud Garden is a site-specific outdoor installation and community project by artist, Monica Banks. Installed in the trees of Guild Hall’s Furman Garden, tangles of wire, balled-up deer fencing, feathers, pop tops from seltzer cans, unidentifiable pieces of hardware, and other artifacts from the artist’s everyday life hang as mobiles, creating dangling objects that shimmer in the air like the stories we tell about ourselves. 

Banks’ “Cloud” series began in 2006 when the artist received boxes of her childhood toys, jewelry and trinkets. Wanting to give meaning to her history through sculpture, Banks combined souvenirs of her present life with these fragments of her past in tangles of wire that hang, cloud-like, from ceilings or tree branches. She is revisiting this process during the Covid–19 pandemic, when like most of us, she is spending more time at home immersed in the minutia of domestic life. The work in this installation updates her materials as a record of this extraordinary time, and includes samples from the bag of orphan socks she discovered in the back of a closet, pieces of a wall sculpture she made for her infant son (now 24 years old), fingertips of unused gloves, tufts of fur from her new puppy, and shards of the Nerf soccer ball he attacked, along with other items unearthed during the prolonged quarantine. 

The installation expands into Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden with an exhibit of student work; Saturday, September 19 – Monday, October 12. Through remote workshops with The Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreational Center, Banks has shared her work and process with children of The Center, resulting in an installation of the children’s own cloud sculptures. 

Curator
Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator 

Project Coordinator
Anthony Madonna, The Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts Education  

Cloud Garden is on view during regular Museum Hours. The Guild Hall Gardens are self-monitoring spaces; we ask that patrons observe proper physical-distancing, observe maximum capacity signage, and wear face-coverings on the grounds.

RING THE ALARM…A Conversation with Derrick Adams & Renee Cox

The idea for this program came about from discussions on a forthcoming Guild Hall exhibition of Black Artists that Renee Cox will be curating for the summer of 2023. Derrick Adams and Renee Cox, noted artists, colleagues and friends, both have a long history of exhibiting work and curating exhibitions that focus on empowerment, the black experience, and issues of contemporary life.
 
“The need for open dialogue on art, race and politics felt timely and something that we believe is needed by our community,” notes Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator. We hope to continue this series of conversations next year, leading up to the 2023 Summer exhibition.

Lindsay Morris: A Small Taste of Freedom

A Small Taste of Freedom is an exhibition by the photographer Lindsay Morris which resulted from a collaboration between Morris and the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Composed of portraits and audio interviews of GHTAC members living under New York State’s “stay at home” order, the exhibition captures the everyday happenings, coping mechanisms, and escape modes of area teens living through this historic moment.

Morris’ series is a true reflection of the challenge teenagers faced as their final months of school, graduation, prom, and other rites of passage slipped away. The project began as a portrait series of high school seniors in their cars, recording the expressions and body language of young people on the cusp of adulthood, with the automobile representing a quest for autonomy and freedom. As spring began and the reality of the pandemic set-in, the adventurous and hopeful narrative of these young people changed.

A simply stated question was posed to Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council members: How is Covid-19 affecting you? Their answers regarding family hardships, concerns about academic success, fears regarding our global community, and free-floating anxiety are embedded in the visual and audio material exhibited, but even without accompanying interviews, the facial expressions in these portraits tell a story of loss and uncertainty. 

The car no longer represents a getaway toward an exciting future, but rather a means to escape from stressful and even claustrophobic home lives. In some scenarios, if the weather cooperates, the vehicle takes teens to much-needed, albeit socially distanced, tailgate meet-ups. This new framing of the automobile (or other mode of transportation like bikes and skateboards) as an escape rather than a leap into the future, tells a different story. 

Lindsay Morris: A Small Taste of Freedom is on view during regular museum hours, and is the first exhibition in the newly renovated Guild Hall Lounge. To experience the audio portion of this exhibit, patrons must bring their own mobile device with ability to scan a QR code, and a pair of headphones.  

The teens pictured are members of the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (TAC). All portraits are shot by Lindsay Morris with Kodak Portra film. All audio recorded and edited by the individual TAC Member with readily available devices.  

Curators
Casey Dalene, Curatorial Assistant & Lewis B. Cullman Associate for Museum Education
Anthony Madonna, The Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts Education 

 

TIMED TICKETS AND VISITOR INFORMATION

To ensure the health and safety of its visitors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Guild Hall has instituted the following measures:

  • Reservations to visit the Museum are recommended. You can reserve timed tickets online or by calling 631-324-0806 Saturday-Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Drop-ins are also welcome!
  • Visitors are asked to be on time for their appointment. Visits are for a maximum of one hour and no more than 50 people will be allowed in the museum galleries at a time.
  • Visitors should enter through the left most front door of the building and check in with the Receptionist at the box office. A one-way footpath proceeds throughout the museum.
  • Masks are required in the building for all patrons over the age of 2.
  • Social distancing of at least 6 feet is encouraged in the museum galleries and lobby.

Free Clean Money, performance art piece by Katherine McMahon with pianist Ray Angry

Free Clean Money, a collaborative piece by Katherine McMahon and Ray Angry, is an outdoor art installation and performance that will debut at Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY during the Phase 4 reopening in New York State. Exploring the powerful emotional response triggered by money, “Free Clean Money” evaluates the perception of value, privilege, and the ethics associated with a dollars’ origins and who has access to it. It is an exploration into the freedom that money offers as well as the mental and societal barriers it imposes. “Free Clean Money,” presented outdoors at Guild Hall, will feature $500 of the artist’s own money on silver platters while a composition entitled “The Protest” by Ray Angry plays on loop. The money is on offer to visitors of the exhibition with no other conditions. The dollars will be routinely disinfected by the artist. This project contends with the individual’s hardwired attraction to money, the hoarding of wealth and an attempt at detachment from it. It is an exploration of the principle of reciprocity and the quandaries that arise when money is offered in unconventional ways, devoid of any obligation of repayment. Presented in the wealthy enclave of the Hamptons, the piece will also function as a social experiment and an opportunity to expand and transform the participants sense of place.

All for the Hall

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Ever since I was a child, I have been envious of birds.
The feeling of flight–the gesture of simply outstretching my arms and lifting up to fly, the rush of air underneath–it is a feeling I find myself contemplating far more during these strange trying days of the virus as I imagine us all being lifted up out of this dark storm.

The first version I made of this drawing was not translucent or bright enough to successfully evoke that sensation; I re-made the drawing so it would appear to softly glow from within, playing on the light as it passes through the translucent vellum to the paper behind it. In making this work, I referenced several different images of swan wings so the drawing would have an uncanny artificiality, conjuring a utopic dream. I wanted this drawing to possess an ethereal quality, a real image of Hope.

 – Robert Longo

Renowned American artist Robert Longo has mobilized 60 artists to donate artworks for a special benefit exhibition supporting Guild Hall, the historic multidisciplinary center that has long served the artist community of Long Island’s East End. In response to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, All for the Hall includes painting, sculpture, photography and new site-responsive installations by such artists as Laurie Anderson, Philippe Cheng, Jeremy Dennis, Eric Fischl, Rashid Johnson, Shirin Neshat, Enoc Perez, Dorothea Rockburne, Ugo Rondinone, Clifford Ross, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Karin Waisman, and Robert Wilson, among many others. The museum exhibition will be on view at Guild Hall from August 8 through December 31, 2020, with a corresponding virtual gallery here. All works are available for purchase at accessible price points starting at $500, with all proceeds benefiting Guild Hall. 

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Guild Hall had planned a solo exhibition dedicated to Longo this summer. As the scale and impact of this crisis became known and Guild Hall was forced to cancel its annual Summer Gala and Auction, Longo suggested postponing the exhibition and leading this alternative fundraising initiative, alongside Guild Hall’s Museum Director and Chief Curator, Christina Mossaides Strassfield, who is curating the exhibition. The exhibition follows a recent stage fundraiser that was also initiated by the artist community, a virtual staged reading of Same Time, Next Year, directed by Bob Balaban and featuring Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore. 

Since it was founded in 1931, Guild Hall has served as a cultural cornerstone of Long Island’s East End and as a resource for the artist communities that have long existed in the Hamptons. The benefit exhibition reflects the commitment and long-standing relationship between the center and area artists that has developed over the years. The artists featured in All for the Hall include internationally renowned artists as well as those with local acclaim, united by their personal connections to East End, having lived, worked, or consistently visited the region.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

John Alexander, Laurie Anderson, Alice Aycock, Elena Bajo, Jules de Balincourt, Kirsten Benfield, Ross Bleckner, Dianne Blell, Ellen Carey, Philippe Cheng, Chuck Close, Renee Cox, Jennifer Cross, Rob Davis, Jeremy Dennis, Anh Duong, Eric Fischl, Margaret Garrett, Ralph Gibson, Wade Guyton, Michael Halsband, Hiroyuki Hamada, Val Hindra, Sheree Hovsepian, Judith Hudson, Bryan Hunt, Yung Jake, Rashid Johnson, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Jon Kessler, Bill Komoski, Robert Longo, Katherine McMahon, Joel Mesler, Steve Miller, Sam Moyer, Warren Neidich, Shirin Neshat, John Noestheden, Paulina Olowska, Dennis Oppenheim, Tony Oursler, Carol Peligian, Enoc Perez, Dorothea Rockburne, Alexis Rockman, Ugo Rondinone, Clifford Ross, Toni Ross, David Salle, Mason Saltarrelli, Matthew Satz, Bastienne Schmidt, Cindy Sherman, Taryn Simon, Kiki Smith, Ned Smyth, Adam Straus, Billy Sullivan, Sara VanDerBeek, Karin Waisman, Nick Weber, Robert Wilson, Lucy Winton, Darius Yektai, Nico Yektai, and Almond Zigmund.

Virtual Annual Members Meeting

Join Chairman of the Board Marty Cohen, Executive Director Andrea Grover, Museum Director & Chief Curator Christina Strassfield, John Drew Theater Artistic Director Josh Gladstone, and The Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts Education Anthony Madonna to learn all about the revamped 2020 Summer Season at Guild Hall. 

Free with required registration. Private Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the meeting. Please be sure to sign up for a free Zoom account ahead of time. 

We look forward to seeing you there! 

For any questions, please contact Membership and Special Events Associate Manager, Leta Mumgaard, at lmumgaard@guildhall.org. 

Virtual Art Salon: Top Winners from the 82nd Artist Members Exhibition

Virtual Art Salon hosted by Casey Dalene, Guild Hall Curatorial Assistant, Registrar and Lewis B Cullman Associate for Museum Education

Featuring:

Top Winners from the 82nd Artist Members Exhibition

As we celebrated the re-opening of Guild Hall Museum on Friday, June 26th, we are excited to re-ignite the conversation about the 82nd Artist Members Exhibition. This exhibition has been waiting patiently in our galleries and will now, once again, be open to the public. In the next Virtual Art Salon, Curatorial Assistant, Casey Dalene, will interview the top winners, chosen by guest juror, Susan Thompson, Associate Curator at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum. Each artist will discuss the piece that they entered in the show and why they chose that particular piece for this year’s exhibition.

Top 9 Winning Categories include: Top Honors, Best Representational Work, Best Abstract, Best Photograph, Best Sculpture, Catherine and Theo Hios Best Landscape, Best Mixed Media, Best Work on Paper, and Best New Artist.

Winners that will be featured in the Zoom Conversation:
Darlene Charneco, Top Honors Winner
Renee Gallanti, Best Mixed Media
Tracy Jamar, Best Sculpture
Mary Twomey, Best Work on Paper
Johnny Miller, Best Photograph
Julie Solomon, Best New Artist

Free with required registration.  Private Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours prior to the Salon. Please be sure to sign up for a free Zoom account ahead of time.

Clothesline Art Sale 2020

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The Clothesline Art Sale is one of the most beloved and affordable art traditions in the Hamptons since its inception in 1946. For almost 74 years, it has provided accessible artwork to the community, while supporting the local artists who thrive here. Throughout our history, great artists such as Alfonso Ossorio, James Brooks, John Little, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Elaine and Willem de Kooning have shared their talents to support Guild Hall in this unique annual fundraising effort.

In Person: 9am–4pm 
Online: 9am–11:59pm

The 2020 Clothesline Art Sale is here! Nearly 300 artists entered the sale this year and art lovers everywhere flock to Guild Hall looking for their next masterpiece. Works range in price from $75 to $5,000 with all proceeds split 50/50 between the artist and Guild Hall. 

While our summer season looks much different this year, we continue to reimagine our programs and how we can bring them to the public safely. We are so excited to continue the tradition of Clothesline by holding the sale outdoors on the grounds of Guild Hall following all social-distancing protocols and government safety guidelines.

We are also utilizing a touchless online-only purchasing system that will allow for safe and easy check-out, while also allowing you to shop from the comfort of your home. 

HOW TO BUY

Online:
If you are unable to join us in-person or would like to simply shop online, you can shop the entire sale at shop.guildhall.org from 9am to 11:59pm. 

In order to pick-up artwork purchased online, you will need to set up an appointment with kcurcie@guildhall.org from July 27 – 31, 11:30am to 5pm.

In Person: 
 – Purchase via QR Codes:

– or simply directly visit shop.guildhall.org on your phone!

Whether you use QR codes or go directly to the site, you can choose the artwork you wish to purchase, enter your credit card information, and it’s yours! Please be prepared to show your receipt upon exiting the sale.

HOW TO VISIT:

– In the event of rain, the sale will be held on July 26 from 9am-4pm. 
– Masks will be required for entry and social distancing will be enforced. 
– Please make sure to bring a phone that has internet access or cellular data in order to purchase art. 
– Please be prepared to show your receipt upon exiting the sale. 
– This event will be held entirely outside. There will be no access to the building and there will be no access to bathrooms. 
– Please DO NOT attend if you or any member of your party have:
     – knowingly been in close or proximate contact in the past 14 days with
     – anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or who has or has symptoms of COVID-19
     – have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days
     – or have experienced any symptoms of COVID-19 in the past 14 days

We are so grateful for your continued support and are excited to bring this newly envisioned event to life with your help. Thank you!

RE

RESTART RENEW REFRESH REINVENT REUNITE

As Guild Hall begins the initial stages of reopening, the Teen Arts Council (TAC) is investigating the idea of “reopen” and, in general, the prefix “re;” How will this phase, and the pandemic that caused it, alter how we interact with each other? In what ways is the world around us already reopening? How do we reopen to a more empathetic world, rather than return to the status-quo? 

With these questions in mind each TAC Member has documented the “re” sights, sounds, and interactions they see on a daily basis, culminating in a series of four vignettes projected on rear-facing windows of Guild Hall.

RE is on view Friday – Monday evenings: June 26 – July 13. The work can be viewed from the parking lot at a self-regulated physical distancing (6 feet) from other patrons. 

All media recorded and collected by TAC Members
Video editing by TAC Member, Anni Spacek
Projection by Joe Brondo & Patrick Dawson
Curated by Anthony Madonna 

Teens Make Abstract Videos for Guild Hall by Christine Sampson in The East Hampton Star