Critic and artist to offer talk on Guild Hall exhibition on Saturday

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Art critic Amei Wallach and artist Priscilla Heine will discuss Ms. Heine’s Guild Hall exhibition, “Bloom,” on Saturday, November 14, at 3 p.m, at the museum in East Hampton. Ms. Heine was the winner of best in show at the 69th Annual Guild Hall Artists Members Exhibition, Part 1, held in 2007 and juried by Faye Hirsch, senior editor, Art in America magazine. “Bloom” will remain on view through November 21.

In her work, Ms. Heine moves between genres, locating image and form through the visceral mark making that has come to characterize her paintings. According to a statement from Guild Hall, the artist “glides across a field of action in which knotted swirls collide and unravel, twisting over color pools and long stretches of raw canvas.”

Ms. Wallach is an art critic, filmmaker and commentator. She was for many years chief art critic for New York Newsday and Newsday, and on-air arts essayist for “The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.” Her articles have appeared in Art in America, ArtNews, The New York Times, The Nation, Elle, Vanity Fair and The Smithsonian.

She is president emeritus of the International Art Critics Association and a frequent lecturer at museums around the world. “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine” was her first film, made in collaboration with the filmmaker Marion Cajori, who died in 2006. She is currently making a feature-length film on the Soviet-born artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.

Suggested donation for the November 14 talk is $7. For more information, call 324-0806, or visit www.guildhall.org.