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Up Close And Personal With Elizabeth Murray
“Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray,” an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist whose work is in the Parrish Art Museum collection, will screen on Friday, January 19, at 6 p.m. at the Water Mill institution, located at 279 Montauk Highway.
The film — which will be introduced by Sophie Ellsberg, an actor, director and daughter of the artist — explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career, and reconsiders her place in contemporary art history, through verité footage, home videos, and excerpts from her journals read by Meryl Streep, which illustrate the artist’s internal struggles and drive.
“I am very excited to screen this timely portrait of a hugely influential artist who inspired other women artists to follow their dreams and ambitions,” said Corinne Erni, curator of special projects.
Murray earned her bachelor’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by her master’s from Mills College in Oakland, California, before living and working in New York, and going on to have more than 80 solo exhibitions worldwide. Her work blurs the line between abstraction and representation, and challenges traditional conventions of painting.
“She transformed modernist abstraction by redefining the sculptural dimensions of the medium and exploring layered planes of canvas,” according to a press release. “Using bold colors and biomorphic forms, figures, and everyday objects, she made feminist statements about domestic life that often bordered on political critique.”
Tickets are $20, or $5 for members. For more information, please call (631) 283-2118 or visit parrishart.org.
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Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up
In the spirit of the Upright Citizens Brigade and The Second City, The Stowaways will bring improv comedy to Bay Street Theater February 3 and 17, and March 3 and 17. All performances will vary, and with improv, you never know what will happen.
The Stowaways is made up of young actors, musicians, and comedians from New York brought together by their common love of classic and modern improv comedy forms.
The idea for improv troupe programming at Bay Street Theater was developed by Scott Schwartz, Artistic Director for Bay Street Theater, and Rob Reese, who now leads the group. Reese is a theater director with over 20 years of experience in improvisation who has performed, directed and taught the craft throughout the United States and over a dozen countries on five continents.
Tickets are $25 to $30 and are available at baystreet.org or by calling (631) 725-9500.
Guild Hall Names Artists in Residence
Guild Hall has named nine residents to the 2018 Guild House Artist-in-Residence Program — a wide spectrum of artistic mediums that has all seen prestigious national and international venues.
The two residencies, from April 2 to 30 and October 22 to November 19, will focus on the physical structure of Guild House as a place for temporary exhibition, installation, performance and creative interventions.
“Residents may work together or alone to stage environments, readings or performances to further seek imaginative uses of the house in meaningful but impermanent ways that reflect on their work,” according to a press release.
The spring residents will include San Francisco-based Simone Bailey, who works with video, performance, sculpture and photography to explore themes related to violence, agency and the impulse to grasp the intangible and Los Angeles-based author Katherine Taylor, as well as three Brooklyn-based talents — Aviva Jaye, a performer dedicated to empathy and diversity through music; writer, performance artist and activist Siobhan O’Loughlin, whose site-specific, immersive piece, “Broken Bone Bathtub,” made splashes across the United States, Japan, Australia, England and Ireland; and Eva Schmidt, an artist working within the culinary, visual and performing art fields to investigate themes of lifespan, vision and alchemy.
The fall residents will include actor, writer and director Marina Gregory; Mitsu Salmon, who creates performance and visual work that fuses multiple disciplines, her most current project investigating botany, familial histories, colonization and archives; Scott R. Sheppard, an OBIE Award-winning theater artist living in Philadelphia and New York; and sculptor and painter Myung Gyun You, also based in Philadelphia, whose approach to art is highly influenced by his moves back and forth between Japan and Korea during his formative years.
For more information, please visit guildhall.org.
gavinmenu on Jan 16, 2018