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Mary Ellen Bartley, "Three Stacks Yellow Sticker," 2014, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle rag paper, 15” x 17.25.” COURTESY THE ARTIST
Bastienne Schmidt, "Red, White and Yellow Grid," 2025, pleated and sewn duck cotton fabric, sewn and stretched over canvas, 30” x 40.” COURTESY THE ARTIST
Blair Seagram, "Shelter Green 9B," 2024, UV print on Plexi, 6” x 10” x 1.5.” COURTESY THE ARTIST
Louise P. Sloane, "Sizzler, "2017, acrylic pastes and paints on aluminum panel 46” x 44.” COURTESY THE ARTIST/IMAGE COURTESY ETIENNE FROSSARD
Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons (WACH) presents “The Grid,” a new exhibition featuring artwork by Mary Ellen Bartley, Blair Seagram, Bastienne Schmidt and Louise P. Sloane.
In this exhibition, artists explore the grid, not as a fixed form, but as an open idea — abstracted, fracture, and interpreted through line, form, and feeling. Rather than thinking outside the box, these artists think around it, disrupting familiar patterns, redirecting the eye, and opening new ways of seeing.
“The Grid” opened Saturday, April 19, at WACH and will remain on view through Sunday, May 18. The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, April 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. An artist talk with Blair Seagram and Louise P. Sloane will take place on Sunday, April 27, from 1 to 2 p.m., followed by a second talk featuring Mary Ellen Bartley and Bastienne Schmidt on Sunday, May 18, from 1 to 2 p.m.
“The Grid invites us to reconsider structure not as limitation, but as possibility,” says Wendy Van Deusen, WACH’s director. “It reminds us that what appears fixed can become fluid — and that meaning often emerges in the spaces between.”
“We hope visitors leave asking new questions — about boundaries, about direction, about how we move through the frameworks of our own lives,” adds Joi Jackson Perle, WACH’s associate director.
Through this exhibition, the grid becomes metaphor. It maps lives — moments intersect, relationships overlap, and our directions wind in and out of view. Sometimes we move within the framework; other times, we find ourselves at its edges — or entirely outside it.
The Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons is located at 2418 Main Street in Bridgehampton. For information, visit wachamptonsny.org.
Staff Writer on May 2, 2025