New York Galleries and their new outposts in the Hamptons
Since the beginning of June Pace, Skarstedt, Van de Weghe, Michael Werner, Sotheby’s, South Etna Gallery, Hauser & Wirth and Lisson Gallery have all opened outposts in the Hamptons.
New York’s top dealers, artists and collectors have long spent their holidays here but during the pandemic they have started living here on a more permanent basis are not likely to go back to the city this summer. So for those collectors for whom online exhibitions don’t fit the bill the galleries have come out to them.
Pace has taken over the 1,700-square-foot space long associated with the Vered gallery on Park Place, it changes its shows every week, this week its Torkwase Dyson with Studies for Bird and Lava (Aug 1st – 9th). This week’s exhibition is the culmination of a period of process-oriented study for Dyson’s ongoing project, Bird and Lava, which is a multifaceted expression of a question: “If blackness is already an architectonic developed out of liquidity (ocean), can the work embody this phenomenon and offer sensation (sensoria) at the register of liberation?”
Skarstedt, which has an Upper East Side gallery, now has its Hamptons outpost at 66 Newtown Lane and installed work that had been planned for the last week at Art Basel before it was canceled, with work by a number of East End-affiliated artists such as George Condo, Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, as well as Albert Oehlen, Rebecca Warren, KAWS, Martin Kippenberger, and Christopher Wool.
Van de Weghe, also at 66 Newtown Lane, presents, an exhibition of works on paper by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). The works date from the early 1980s and focus on the figure as subject.
Sotheby’s has also opened a gallery at 66 Newtown Lane, for art, design, and luxury goods such as vintage watches and jewellery, on view are works by Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Mr. Condo.
South Etna Gallery opened on July 16th in the Village of Montauk on the East End of Long Island with the show Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food: Art History as Muse, curated by Alison M. Gingeras and including works by Derrick Adams, Glenn Brown, Scott Covert, John Currin, Jesse Edwards, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rachel Feinstein, Luis Flores, Doreen Garner, Clarity Haynes, Lyle Ashton Harris, Andrew LaMar Hopkins, Jane Kaplowitz, Karen Kilimnik, Dennis Kardon, Chris Oh, Borna Sammak, Peter Saul, Sally Saul, Betty Tompkins, Piotr Uklański, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Last week Lisson Gallery announced the opening of an exhibition space at 55 Main Street in East Hampton Village. The 1,000 square foot space will highlight one work per week by gallery artists – with upcoming presentations by Carmen Herrera, Anish Kapoor, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Sean Scully and Leon Polk Smith, among others – featuring both seminal, historic artworks and premiering new bodies of work. The first presentation will feature a painting by Stanley Whitney, made in 1996. The rare work is landscape format, measuring over seven feet wide. The mid-1990s mark a particularly significant time in the artist’s career, where, dissatisfied and unable to find a place in the New York art world for his work, Whitney moved to Italy.
