Join Artist Members Exhibition artist Michael A. Butler and Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader for a conversation about his work. The discussion will center around the evolution of Butler’s artwork and its recurring themes of imagined representations of underrecognized peoples based on scarce written documentation.
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.
CREATIVE LAB is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each CREATIVE LAB invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by artist and 2019 GH Artist Member Exhibition winner Mary Boochever. In developing her own color language, Boochever has explored sources as diverse as Kabbalah and Goethe’s Color Theory. The LAB will include a tour of the artist’s current Guild Hall exhibition, Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp, and an exploration of practice through introductory Tai chi / Qi Gong movements and a collective color knowledge experience.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
CREATIVE LAB is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each CREATIVE LAB invites participants to learn about an artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by acoustic ecologist, Gordon Hempton. As the Sound Tracker®, Hempton has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds—sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. During the LAB, Hempton will share his practice and give a sneak-peak into his new work, Sound Place Love, set to premiere at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
CREATIVE LAB is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each CREATIVE LAB invites participants to learn about an artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by Shinnecock Linguist and Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Resident (GH CAiR), Wunetu Wequai Tarrant. As part of her GH CAiR, Tarrant and her collaborator, Christian Scheider, are advancing the work of The First Literature Project, and the formation of Ayím Kutoowonk (She Speaks), a collective of four Indigenous Shinnecock women working toward the reclamation and revitalization of the Shinnecock language. The project proposes to support the language reclamation efforts through the preservation of Indigenous stories, culture, and language by utilizing immersive 3D, virtual reality, and holographic technology to create two immersive orations to be exhibited at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
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 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 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.
Join artist Leo Villareal and Kathleen Forde, inaugural Senior Curator for Superblue, as they discuss Leo’s work and large-scale immersive installations, in conjunction with Guild Hall’s exhibition of Villareal’s Celestial Garden. This engaging conversation with take place in the Marks Family Gallery North, and seating is limited, so get your tickets today.
Leo Villareal’s Celestial Garden features a never-before-exhibited monumental LED artwork accompanied by a soundscape and artist-designed furniture. The new light sculpture is composed of an array of LEDs over ten feet high and twenty-eight feet wide that is encased in a vinyl membrane. The artwork comes alive with perpetually evolving forms created by using custom software that orchestrates the compositions. An audio soundscape accompanies the visual display.
Villareal’s abstract compositions, inspired by nature’s intricate patterns, unfold in real-time and envelop the viewer in a dynamic interplay of light and sound where space and time intertwine.
