Join us for an afternoon of workshops and performances as we celebrate the incredible talents and imaginations of our local students in this year’s Student Art Festival: Made by Water.
2–3:15pm: Workshop led by artist, Kym Fulmer
2–3:15pm: Exhibit Open for Viewing/Self-Guided Tours
3:15–4pm: Performances and Film Screenings by local school and community ensembles in our John Drew Theater.
Saturday, January 18 – Sunday, February 9
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 25, 2-4pm
FREE ADMISSION
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Oering its 28th Year, the Guild Hall Student Art Festival is a beloved tradition that celebrates and showcases the artistic achievement and imagination of students on the East End of Long Island.
New to the festival, this year’s SAF is centered around a central theme; Made by Water. Over the fall semester students kindergarten through 12th grade from Bridgehampton to Montauk have questioned, discussed, and creatively responded to their experiences with our oceans, waterways, and natural landscapes, resulting in an exhibition of diverse yet connected perspectives.
The festival is celebrated through an opening reception on Saturday, January 25. The afternoon will feature family workshops, performances from school and community dance, theater, and music ensembles, and light bites and refreshments.
Opening Reception for Student Art Festival: Made by Water
Joyce Kubat is the Top Honors recipient of the 79th Artist Members Exhibition (2017). Kubat was selected by guest awards juror, Ruba Katrib, who was curator at the Sculpture Center and now curator at MoMA PS1.
In this exhibition Kubat assembles her people, a body of work which she has been developing since 2002. Her media has remained the same and Kubat lets the process lead the way in her deeply psychological figurative works. From pastels applied to damp paper creating a liquid soft skin with deep velvet pigments, to fluid pink inks that have the extraordinary transparency of flesh, these materials have led her to convey an emotionally raw narrative of human anatomy.
The figure has always been my focus, and over the years it’s become a psychological focus, a not-always-easy-to-view focus… Art with only surface excitement seems empty. For me it has to have a serious and profound underpinning, always poignant, often humorous, relating in some way to the universal humanity common to all of us. – Joyce Kubat
Kubat holds a BS in Psychology from Michigan State University and continued her studies in New York City at both Brooklyn College and Art Students League of New York. She lives and works in Huntington, NY and has exhibited throughout Long Island, New York City, Italy, and elsewhere.
Guest Curator: Joan Marter, PhD
October 26- December 30, 2019, Moran and Woodhouse Galleries
Reception: October 27, 2-4pm
Gallery Talk: October 27, 1-2pm
This exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture will celebrate the outstanding collection of Abstract Expressionist art owned by Guild Hall. Abstract Expressionism was an avant-garde movement of the 1950s that resulted, in part, from the dynamic interplay of artists working on the East End. Among the participants in this “artist colony” of the Hamptons were permanent residents and summer visitors. Painters included Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, James Brooks and Charlotte Park, Robert Motherwell, and Grace Hartigan among others. Presentation of many works that have not been exhibited in recent years, also brings attention to the digitization of the Guild Hall collection that was completed recently. The Museum has been building a significant collection of Abstract Expressionist works, and prime examples will be combined with loans by artists who created their work on the East End.
The exhibition will include a catalogue with color illustrations of examples in the Guild Hall collection, and an essay that explains the importance of East End artists to the emergence of Abstract Expressionism .
Joan Marter is an American academic, art critic and author with a Ph.D. from The University of Delaware, 1974. Marter is the “Distinguished Professor of Art History” at Rutgers University, the co-editor of the Woman’s Art Journal, the editor of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, the author and co-organizer of Women of Abstract Expressionism in 2016 (Denver Art Museum).
Spiga Gallery
Members Reception October 27, 2-4pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, November 16, 2pm
Joyce Kubat is the Top Honors recipient of the 79th Artist Members Exhibition (2017). Kubat was selected by guest awards juror, Ruba Katrib, who was curator at the Sculpture Center and now curator at MoMA PS1.
In this exhibition Kubat assembles her people, a body of work which she has been developing since 2002. Her media has remained the same and Kubat lets the process lead the way in her deeply psychological figurative works. From pastels applied to damp paper creating a liquid soft skin with deep velvet pigments, to fluid pink inks that have the extraordinary transparency of flesh, these materials have led her to convey an emotionally raw narrative of human anatomy.
The figure has always been my focus, and over the years it’s become a psychological focus, a not-always-easy-to-view focus… Art with only surface excitement seems empty. For me it has to have a serious and profound underpinning, always poignant, often humorous, relating in some way to the universal humanity common to all of us. – Joyce Kubat
Kubat holds a BS in Psychology from Michigan State University and continued her studies in New York City at both Brooklyn College and Art Students League of New York. She lives and works in Huntington, NY and has exhibited throughout Long Island, New York City, Italy, and elsewhere.
Curator: Casey Dalene
Tony Oursler
June 8–July 21, 2019
Gallery Talk with Tony Oursler: July 6, 3–4pm
Private Member Reception: July 6, 4–6pm
All Galleries
Christina Strassfield, Curator
Fresh off his dynamic Public Art Fund Commission, Tear of the Cloud, which was on view at Riverside Park this past October, Guild Hall has turned over the entire museum to Oursler who delves into the subject of water and notions of “magical thinking” on the East End.
Oursler has developed an experimental and innovative practice that utilizes projections, optical devices, audio, video, and sculpture to move images away from the white wall and onto unexpected surfaces or environments. Through this inventive technological approach, the artist explores the ubiquitous element of water as a repository for belief systems—with references that range from sea monsters and evil spirits to cartography and the claimed ability of water memory.
Tony Oursler
June 8–July 21, 2019
Private Member Reception: July 6, 4–6pm
All Galleries
Christina Strassfield, Curator
Fresh off of his dynamic Public Art Fund Commission, Tear of the Cloud, which was on view at Riverside Park this past October, Guild Hall is pleased to turn over the entire museum to this noted artist who will delve into the subject of water and notions of “magical thinking” for the East End. Oursler has developed a new multimedia series of works which incorporate glass, computers and water. Thematically, the ubiquitous element of water becomes a repository for our belief systems as the artist references the development of cartography and the subsequent vanishing of sea monsters, Hollywood movies and evil maritime spirits, counterculture and the pseudoscience of water memory.
u have entered a space that is in flux. a collection of ideas that have led us here (now). Some of them r mine some of them r urs.
cartoons do whatever they want regardless of the laws of physics. to me, this is Evidence that reality is an illusion. once u’ve realized this u’ll b infused w the superpower of cartoons: the ability to DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. i don’t care what you do in this room or what u do to the artwork as long as you have fun
@yungjake
April 20–May 27
Private Member Reception: April 20, 5–7pm
Gallery Talk with Yung Jake, Tripoli Patterson (Gallery Owner), Katherine McMahon (ARTNews): May 5, 2–4pm
Moran and Spiga Galleries
Christina Strassfield, Curator
For the exhibition, cartoons, the artist Yung Jake has created a new body of work related to the narrative and characters in his animated stories. The storyline in Jake’s animations revolves around a character named Kelvin. The plot is shaped into various vignettes about the environment, culture and the society in which Kelvin lives. In the Moran and Spiga Galleries, elements of Jake’s cartoon will be displayed in various formats including videos, drawings, and an immersive installation.
April 20–May 27
Private Member Reception: April 20, 5–7pm
Gallery Talk with Christine Sciulli: May 4, 2–4pm
Vocal Soundscapes with Jolie Parcher of Mandala Yoga: May 15, 6pm
Woodhouse Gallery
Christina Strassfield, Curator
Christine Sciulli’s primary medium is light. Sciulli allows the architecture of a room to dictate the composition of her work and then transforms the space to that vision. In Phosphene Dreams, a site-specific installation in Guild Hall’s Woodhouse Gallery, Sciulli will explore qualities of rigidity and fluidity by projecting light onto suspended fabric forms to create an illuminated and voluminous sculpture. Viewers are invited to be immersed in the environment and choose from a variety of perspectives and places to sit, linger, play, and interact with the work, as atmospheric shapes appear to grow and dissolve around the gallery.