arty hamptons

friday day trip to the hamptons. while gaggles of gals and business men hike it to hamptons for the weekend. i'm happy to get my daytime fill and return to the glory that is brooklyn. it's nice to get out of the city, but i have to say montauk highway has as much traffic as any city street. behold the parrish museum set on 14 acres and it's a marvel of simplicity marrying air and light. 

parrish art museum yonder

john graham

william p immer

from the parrish i walked, yes walked, to bridgehampton for the market art  + design.

ross bonfanti

peter bynum

pablo dona

alex katz

david hockney, a bigger book

javiera da fonseca

fltgc: gbe + team x2

much belated fltgc: gavin brown and team gallery. okay, i feel like a broken record but really blowing it on the weekly lunch time gallery crawls.  i tend to miss something in my cultural appetite and realize i'm sorely hungry for some art.  it was going to be a big crawl, but unfortunately jack hanley, maccarone and christina ray were closed.  however, i was able to get some good arty eats in.


gbe was featuring the large scale portraiture of alex katz.  his figurative paintings are simple, yet somehow eye-opening at the same time.  the dude is 84 and still painting so that's ahhhmazing.  check it out before it closes next weekend.

after getting denied at maccarone and jack hanley, it was due east to the team galleries.  over at the wooster outpost (where jack black was filming something next door), the sculpture of greek artist vlassis caniaris is on exhibit.  his pieces play against stillness with movement. swing, bike, roll.  all stationary in space.

in the grand space, new york artist marc hundley peppered the walls with posters and text pieces for his exhibit, joan baez is alive.  his works are like grand pieces of a scrapbook with key lyrics and quotes capturing a place, time and feeling.