Almond Zigmund makes large-scale site-responsive installations, discrete sculptures, works on paper, and paintings that explore the interplay between space, perception, and the built environment. Her work is characterized by crisp geometry, vivid colors, and intricate patterns that often suggest walls, barricades, and enclosures. Zigmund is also the creator of Almond Artist & Writers, family-style dinners at the restaurant Almond in Bridgehampton where people come together to share and celebrate the artistic process; she has organized more than sixty-five gatherings to date. It is in this spirit of supporting the power of community engagement that Zigmund was invited to create a site-specific environment in conjunction with the exhibition Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture.

Wading Room houses selections from Guild Hall’s permanent collection; functional, artist-made furniture for public use, including chairs designed by Almond Zigmund in collaboration with Justin Allen (Shepard Co Design); and other artist-made objects: lighting, chairs, rugs, stools, vessels, and sculpture. The artists Sabra Moon Elliot, Kurt Gumaer, Saskia Friedrich, Karen Simon, and Nico Yektai have also contributed to the space. A series of participatory public programs and collaborative projects will take place throughout the run of the exhibition.

We encourage visitors to linger, lounge, and interact in an artist-designed environment and to visit often to explore its potential.

This exhibition was organized by Melanie Crader, museum director and curator of visual arts, with Philippa Content, museum manager and registrar and Claire Hunter, museum coordinator and curatorial associate.

Enjoy These Related Programs:

Zigmund’s Hook Up 
Saturday, May 10, 12-2 PM 
FREE 

Zigmund’s Show & Tell Session  
Saturday, May 24, 12-2 PM  
FREE  

In Conversation: Lisa Perry & Almond Zigmund  
Sunday, June 1, 2 PM  
$25 ($22.50 for Members)  
 
Zigmund’s Wrap Session  
Saturday, June 21, 12-2 PM  
$15 ($13.50 for Members) 

Zigmund’s Chair Pose – BYOC  
Saturday, June 28, 12-2 PM  
$15 ($13.50 for Members)  

Zigmund’s – The Final Hookup   
Saturday, July 12, 12-2 PM  
FREE   

 

 

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Designed by artist Almond Zigmund for her 2025 Guild Hall exhibition, Almond Zigmund: Wading Room, our newest Artist + Guild Hall collab is available now in a very limited-edition run of 50 sweatshirts.  This thick, olive green, ultra-soft hoodie is sure to be your new favorite. 

Support Guild Hall while showing off your Wading Room style. Get yours now, as once these sell out, they won’t be repeated!

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“I started making couches about 1969 or 1970. I needed some place to sit down, which is the best reason for making them, I suppose.”  —John Chamberlain.

Artists often come to be associated with specific mediums or bodies of work when in fact their practices are much more expansive. Visual artists are frequently also musicians, designers, performers, filmmakers, writers, furniture makers, and so on. An encounter with one of the couches made by John Chamberlain, an artist best known for his metal sculptures, can be surprising, but the reality is that artists integrate their studio practices into all their life activities.

This presentation focuses on East End artists who have produced functional furniture as an extension of their creative practices—as a means of problem-solving, as an element of designed living, and as a way to foster social spaces. Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture presents work by Scott Bluedorn, John Chamberlain, Liz Collins, Quentin Curry, Peter Dayton, Connie Fox, Kurt Gumaer, Mary Heilmann, Yung Jake, Donald Judd, Julian Schnabel, Karen Simon, Strong-Cuevas, Mark Wilson, Robert Wilson, Evan Yee, Nico Yektai, and Almond Zigmund.

In conjunction with Functional Relationships, Guild Hall commissioned two projects as further explorations of this common practice: Lindsay Morris’s photographs of interior spaces show how artists utilize furniture and shape their domestic environments, while Almond Zigmund’s installation Wading Room in the Marks Family South Gallery provides an artist-designed environment for activation through public use and a series of participatory programs.

This exhibition was organized by Melanie Crader, museum director and curator of visual arts, with Philippa Content, museum manager and registrar and Claire Hunter, museum coordinator and curatorial associate.

Mary Heilmann: Water Way is the artist’s first large-scale solo presentation at an institution on the East End of Long Island, where she has been an integral part of the region’s creative community for decades. Heilmann grew up along the California coast, in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles. She became a competitive diver as a young teenager, frequently engaged in body surfing, and later became involved in the beatnik and surfing cultures, all of which have had a strong influence on her work. Heilmann moved to New York City in 1968, where she still resides, and has a home and studio Bridgehampton.

Throughout her life, Heilmann has consistently chosen and prioritized living close to water, which has had a profound impact on her artistic practice. She remembers making a watercolor of the ocean when she was about sixteen years old. This proximity to the ocean has influenced the way she considers light when she is conceiving a painting. For example, at sunset and moonrise she looks at the sand, the sky, and the sea for inspiration for her bold color palette. She characterizes her work as autobiographical, as she translates her observations into abstractions and often gives her works titles that offer viewers hints about her ideas. Whether reflected in her imagery or in the titles she gives her works, water has long been a recurring theme throughout her practice. She often translates waves into geometric, hard-edge patterns and likens this to the way a diver must conceptualize the physical geometry of the body when planning a dive.

Guild Hall is pleased to present an exhibition that Heilmann has had a strong desire to stage—one that brings together more than 40 works from a focused area of her output. The exhibition includes works on paper, ceramics, and paintings from the 1980s to the present.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, museum director and curator of visual arts, with Philippa Content, museum manager and registrar, and Claire Hunter, museum coordinator and curatorial associate.

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Designed to celebrate artist Mary Heilmann and her 2025 Guild Hall exhibition, Mary Heilmann: Water Way, our Artist + Guild Hall collaboration is available as a very limited-edition tote bag featuring Heilmann’s 2024 work, Blue Sky Spot.

We are excited to share that this is the first time one of Heilmann’s iconic ceramic works has been reproduced as merchandise. 

100% cotton canvas with a zipper closure and long handles for over-the-shoulder toting. Large enough to carry all of your everyday belongings, or use it as an overnight bag for weekend jaunts to the Hamptons. 

Support Guild Hall while showing off your Water Way style. Get yours now, as once these sell out, they won’t be repeated!

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
GALLERY HOURS: 12-5 PM
RECEPTION: 3-5 PM

Members, please join us for a preview of the 85th Artist Members Exhibition, also featuring the work of 2021 Top Honors award-winner, Linda Reville Eisenberg.

Storm Ascher, an independent curator, writer, and founder of Superposition Gallery and The Hamptons Black Arts Council, has been invited to be this year’s Awards Juror.

This initiative provides an opportunity for audiences to support and celebrate the artists who live and work in our immediate region and for artists to sell their works. In turn, artists show their commitment to and support of Guild Hall. Members have early access.

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

Julian Schnabel is a leading figure among the artists who reinvigorated the practice of painting in the late 1970s, adopting unconventional materials and ways to use them to create monumental works. He remains one of the seminal and most prolific artists of the last four decades and has been a significant figure in contemporary art discourse since his first New York solo show at Mary Boone Gallery in 1979. His experimental and often revolutionary approach extends throughout his creative work in various mediums—including painting, sculpture, architecture, and award-winning feature films. Every aspect of his life is filtered through a painter’s lens, as Schnabel lives and works in carefully considered spaces, often en plein air, surrounded by objects dating from antiquity to the present, many created by artists and artist friends, both living and dead, and by the artist himself.

Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home presents a selection of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures from his personal collection—the works he has chosen to keep for himself and to live among. The works on view, made over the last 45 years, include an early wax painting, Procession (for Jean Vigo) from 1979; Salinas Cruz, a painting on velvet from 1984; paintings on printed materials and tarpaulins; and multiple plate paintings, which show the different possibilities of working in this manner and with this specific material over decades. Schnabel’s art evokes a deep yet elusive connection to humanity. The installation of his large-scale works within Guild Hall’s intimate galleries offers visitors an all-encompassing, contemplative experience—a rare opportunity to lose oneself in the artworks, their history, and their transformation —and to capture a sense of time suspended.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts, in close collaboration with the artist, and Patrick Hillman, executive assistant to Julian Schnabel.

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Following the success of their 2022 summer pop-up in East Hampton, TASCHEN is thrilled to return to the Hamptons, partnering with the cultural heart of the East End – Guild Hall.

Coinciding with the opening of Guild Hall’s summer exhibition Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home, TASCHEN will transform a section of the historic museum into a fully operational pop-up shop.

The TASCHEN pop-up will feature several Julian Schnabel x TASCHEN projects, including an exclusive collection of hand-painted skateboards by the artist, available to US collectors for the first time. The pop-up will also showcase limited edition book projects with contemporaries such as Annie Leibovitz and David Hockney, alongside a curated selection of TASCHEN’s most celebrated art books, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York. Portrait of a City, and Peter Beard.

The TASCHEN Pop-Up at Guild Hall is open to the public Thursday to Sunday, 12–5 PM and before theater programs.