Visual Feast: Hamptons Art Roundup

By Julia Szabo

East Hampton

Longhouse Reserve, 133 Hands Creek Road, 631.329.3568, longhouse.org (closed Sundays)

This season, the kaleidoscopic landscape of designer Jack Lenor Larsen’s lush alfresco culture mecca sports a bold new hue: blue, the color of “Honey,” Orly Genger’s captivating, 70-foot web of recycled lobster rope, painted shades of cobalt and cerulean (through October 31, 2019). Walk a little further and take a moment to meditate on yet another mood-lifting blue space: the entrancing Peter’s Pond, home to water lilies and wildlife.

The Drawing Room, 66 Newtown Lane, 631.324.5016, drawingroom-gallery.com

Drawing ascends to astral heights with a show of ethereal abstractions by two talents: Gustavo Bonevardi (New Watercolors) and John Torreano (Gold Gems Balls) (through June 11). Later, follow abstract master Hector Leonardi on his Chromatic Journey (June 15–July 15).

Harper’s Books, 87 Newtown Lane, 631.324.1131, harpersbooks.com

A woman’s gaze meets the female form in exquisite photographs by Iranian-born, London-based author Maryam Eisler. Pop by the opening reception on May 26 at 6PM or meet Eisler at the “Book Signing and Bagels” event for her title Voices East London, on Sunday, May 27, at 11AM.

Untitled by Judith Hudson, 2017, watercolor and gouache on paper

Southampton

Tripoli Gallery, 30 Jobs Lane, 631.377.3715, tripoligallery.com

Exploring the portal between dreams and reality with bedroom eyes, Judith Hudson: Under the Covers presents beguiling watercolor bedscapes; further fostering feelings of intimacy, the gallery space sports wallpaper Hudson designed especially for this show (through June 18). Keith Sonnier: Tragedy and Comedy reveals the numerous works on paper that preoccupied the artist all winter, when illness kept him away from his studio; these small drawings cast healing, illuminating shadows on Sonnier’s light art (June 29–July 29).

Sag Harbor

The two-person show Bauman | Bretzke pairs Stephen Bauman’s tonal figurative paintings and graphite drawings with Carl Bretzke’s plein-air paintings of contemporary Americana (through June 18). Setting up his easel by the gallery entrance on Saturday, May 26, Bretzke will deploy palette and paintbrush to capture meditative vistas of Main Street for inclusion in the exhibition; go observe this latter-day Hopper at work, and enjoy complimentary Grindstone Coffee & Donuts.

Secrets of the Twisted & Entwined: Contemporary Painters from Around the World, a dynamic group show whose theme is “intricate compositions and maze-like patterns,” gathers works by, among others, Britain’s Mary Jane Ansell (who supplied the art for Adam Ant’s most recent album cover) and France’s Alain Vaes, whose “Water Lilies and Carp,” reminiscent of Rousseau, is a peaceable ecosystem inhabited by fish, fireflies, and frogs (June 16–July 15).