Tripoli Gallery is presenting its 21st Annual Thanksgiving Collective, “Making It Home,” now through January 2026. The exhibition features work by Jeremy Dennis, Sally Egbert, Sabra Moon Elliot, Hiroyuki Hamada, Judith Hudson and Miles Partington, artists who have made the East End their home and the place where they live and work. The show examines the many iterations of home and what it means to establish one.
“Making It Home” invites viewers to consider the idea of home in multiple forms — the home individuals are born into, the home they construct for themselves and the home imagined for future generations. The exhibition also explores how people adapt after leaving their first physical refuge and how they shape environments that reflect personal needs and ideals.
Alongside these individual narratives is the wider history of human movement across countries and centuries, as people depart original homelands in search of safety, freedom, hope, comfort or power.
The exhibition additionally acknowledges the troubled history of this country and the violence that accompanied Western settlement, emphasizing the importance of recognizing these histories and considering futures that avoid repeating past harms.
The artists:
Jeremy Dennis was born on the Shinnecock Nation Reservation, lives there now, and is the founder of Ma’s House, the BIPOC art studio, an institution which celebrates the original stewards of this land. His work asks us to consider the stories and perspectives that predate the arrival of Western culture.
Sally Egbert moved to the East End in the early 1980s. Her first studio here was in a barn, then a friend’s kitchen, basement, outdoors, wherever she felt the spell until she was able to secure her home in Springs. Now her studio is connected to her home where she’s been painting and living since the early 1990s, a daily reminder of what it means to create a life through discipline and necessity.
Sabra Moon Elliot lives in Bridgehampton and serves as the artist-in-residence at the Hayground School. Her patterns, glazes, and titles reach toward the visual languages of the collective unconscious, tracing connections between cultures that use pattern — from quilt-making lineages to Indigenous traditions. She remains attuned to the quiet tensions shaping the East End: its layered histories, its social hierarchies, and its continually shifting cultural landscape.
Hiroyuki Hamada was born in Japan and came to the states in the late 1980s. He moved to the East End in the late 1990s where he met his wife who grew up here. Creating a home for themselves and their two sons they built a life that honors both of their cultural traditions. Each year, gathering neighbors and friends, they host a Japanese New Year celebration.
Judith Hudson began spending time on the East End in the 1980s and later collaborated in the design and construction of her home and studio, created to take full advantage of the area’s remarkable light and shifting water views. Her paintings pull from the most private moments of her life, bravely revealing and putting on display her personal and intimate moments.
Miles Partington was born in Southampton and grew up on a farm there surrounded by animals. Horses and other creatures often wandered through the house itself. His paintings capture the souls and personalities of these animals with such conviction that they seem to stand beside us as equals.
“Making It Home” will remain on view at Tripoli Gallery, located at 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott, through January 2026. For more information, contact info@tripoligallery.com or call 631-377-3715.
Staff Writer on Nov 30, 2025