IN CONVERSATION: ESTRELLITA BRODSKY & JOANNE PILLSBURY

Joanne Pillsbury. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tag: Visual Arts

IN CONVERSATION: ESTRELLITA BRODSKY & JOANNE PILLSBURY

In conjunction with 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 considers the close relationship between textiles and language, and particularly the use of fiber arts as story-telling devices, from ancient Andean times to the present. Originally a nautical term to describe the laborious process of rope making, the phrase “spin a yarn” evolved to refer to the stories sailors fabricated to pass their time during long sea voyages.

The exhibition features work by over 25 international artists and includes tapestries, embroideries, quilts, Vodou flags, and other fiber-based works. Spin A Yarn examines the historical importance of the tradition of textiles as tools for communication and cultural expression, as well as their increasing use in contemporary art to reflect on social, political, and environmental issues.

This exhibition is curated by Estrellita Brodsky, Founder/Director of ANOTHER SPACE, Chelsea, New York.

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.

ERIC FISCHL: A DAY AT THE BEACH

BOOTS LAMB EDUCATION CENTER

Eric Fischl, mainly known for his large-scale, naturalistic images of middle-class American life, has created this interactive work where the public is invited into the studio during gallery hours to create their own “paintings” with provided precut magnetic figures—or make new figures—to develop compositions that play with changing perspective, narrative, and the history of painting.

Galleries are open Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.

LINDA REVILLE EISENBERG: STILL

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY NORTH/TITO SPIGA EXHIBITION SPACE

Linda Eisenberg is the 2021 Top Honors winner of the 83rd Artist Members Exhibition selected by Antwaun Sargeant, Gagosian Director and Curator.

Linda uses traditional painting techniques to explore a variety of genres within the art-historical canon. For her presentation at Guild Hall, she will present two focused projects—still-life paintings of vessels and two intimate portraits.

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

Galleries are open Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.

 

ARTIST TALK: LAURIE LAMBRECHT

In conjunction with the exhibition, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall collection artist Laurie Lambrecht joins Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader in conversation about Laurie’s career and her ongoing project included in the exhibition entitled Inspirations All.

In anticipation of the reopening of the John Drew Theater, the final stage of Guild Hall’s facility-wide renovation, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists celebrates artists who were and are the fabric of the East End artist community and integral to Guild Hall.

The East End has a history of providing an environment for artists to gather and a place of respite and contemplation where many artists work quietly and diligently seasonally and year-round, forming a vibrant creative community. This exhibition of photographic portraits of visual, literary, and performing artists is drawn largely from Guild Hall’s permanent collection, supplemented by projects by Linda K. Alpern, Laurie Lambrecht, and Mark Mann.

Guild Hall was established in 1931 as a gathering place for the community where an appreciation for the arts would “promote a finer type of citizenship.” The institution was the first arts town hall of its kind, encompassing a museum, theater, education center, and meeting space under one roof. Guild Hall’s history parallels that of the American theater and art worlds, with many landmark performances and exhibitions documented in the publication Guild Hall for All (2021).

This exhibition is organized by director of visual arts Melanie Crader.

LOOK ALIVE

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY SOUTH

4/26-4/29 Featured Artist: Jasmine Chamberlain

Jasmine Chamberlain explores the dimensionality of our internal emotional landscapes through her work with florals and sculptural installation. Employing a medium that is inherently ephemeral and in a constant state of transformation, Chamberlain probes our relationship to time, grief, and the cycles of life. With roots on the East End and in Los Angeles, she is inspired by the natural beauty and cycles of life in these diverse landscapes. She lives and works in Springs and owns and operates a floral design company, Floral Feeling, which offers custom floral design, interactive workshops, and event production. For Look Alive, Chamberlain is building a sculptural floral installation in her distinctive style, which she describes as “dainty drama.”

Look Alive is an evolving studio, gallery, and social space. This unique showcase highlights the thriving emergent creative community on the East End, featuring the works of Harris Allen, Kai Parcher-Charles, Mamoun Nukumanu, Kate Kavanaugh, Kiva Motnyk, and Jasmine Chamberlain, and organized by independent curator Ellie Duke. Utilizing video, sound, sculpture, textile, florals, and other media, each artist will transform the gallery into a collaborative workshop.

Artists will be on-site during the following weekends:

  • March 29 – May 6: Harris Allen
  • March 29 – April 1: Kai Parcher Charles
  • April 5 – April 7: Mamoun Nukumanu
  • April 12 – 15: Kate Kavanaugh
  • April 19 – 21: Kiva Motnyk
  • April 26 – 29: Jasmine Chamberlain

“There is a misconception that the most interesting art on the East End happened in decades past, or that young artists don’t (or can’t) live here anymore,” said curator Ellie Duke. “In fact, I am inspired constantly by the emerging generation of artists on the East End — their scrappiness, their expansiveness, their collaborative spirit. Look Alive was inspired by them, and by the desire to share some of their work and their practice with a broader audience. All of the artists in Look Alive are engaged with the community and landscape of this region — its light, flora and fauna, and inhabitants inspire their practices, which I hope visitors to Guild Hall will find moving and resonant.”

Video artist Harris Allen is on-site March 29th – May 6th, developing his series of “living images,” video sculptures that intimately capture narrative and essence through subtle movement. Existing between a still photograph and a film, these portraits are slowed down to allow the viewer to experience more than is available to the naked eye. The result is a deepened presence with the subject through the dilation of time, and a striking blend of stark minimalism and soft, organic form. Throughout Look Alive, Allen will be creating new works using this technique, including five new “living images” in collaboration with the other artists in the exhibition, which will be displayed alongside their contributions.

Each of the five other artists will be on-site for one weekend, building something in the space that will then stay there for the remainder of the exhibition. March 29th – March 31st, multidisciplinary artist Kai Parcher-Charles explores remixed narratives and the power of abstraction and chance to create a soundscape installation made in collaboration with the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council, as well as visitors to the gallery. April 5th – 7th, Mamoun Nukumanu engages his creative practice of “sacred play,” a symbiotic collaboration between artist and organic matter, building a structure using foraged plant material. April 12th – 14th, natural dye artist Kate Kavanaugh creates a unique silk textile in the gallery utilizing eco-printing techniques and invites visitors to participate in a sound-healing ritual. April 19th – 21st, Kiva Motnyk creates a hand-quilted, natural-dyed patchwork textile and leads a quilting and dye workshop incorporating her techniques and materials. April 26th – 28th, floral artist Jasmine Chamberlain explores the dimensions of emotional landscape through an immersive sculptural floral installation, creating an environment for visitors to engage with.

FIRST LITERATURE PROJECT

MARKS FAMILY GALLERY SOUTH

First Literature Project proposes to support Native nations in their efforts to maintain and further their languages, narratives, and oral traditions. Employing a new immersive storytelling platform, 3D video is mixed with virtual reality to re-create the timeless experience of sitting face-to-face with a storyteller.

First Literature Project utilizes the newly released Apple Vision Pro headset to present the immersive experience Padawe, developed over a two-year period by Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence Wunetu Wequai Tarrant and Christian Scheider. The exhibition also features video works by the Shinnecock language revitalization collective Ayim Kutoowonk and interviews with members of the Shinnecock Nation.

Timed entry is required to experience First Literature Project’s virtual-reality work. Admission is free. Patrons who wear glasses or corrective lenses are strongly encouraged to wear contact lenses. 

Organized by Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works.

Timed entry is required to experience First Literature Project’s virtual-reality work. Limited space is available every half hour from Friday to Monday, during the times below, and can be reserved HERE. Advance reservations are recommended to ensure time slots, but are not required.

  • 12 PM
  • 12:30 PM
  • 1 PM
  • 1:30 PM
  • 2 PM
  • 2:30 PM
  • 3 PM
  • 3:30 PM
  • 4 PM

JULIAN SCHNABEL

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

Julian Schnabel (b. 1951, Brooklyn, NY) is one of the most seminal and prolific artists working today. His multidisciplinary practice extends beyond painting to sculpture, film, architecture, and furniture. Guild Hall’s presentation will draw upon Schnabel’s personal collection and activate all gallery spaces.

This exhibition is organized by Director of Visual Arts, Melanie Crader.

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.