Tripoli Gallery's 20th Annual Thanksgiving Collective

“There’s always another party” — Lisa de Kooning (1956 - 2012)

The 20th Annual Thanksgiving Collective, “Breaking Bread,” presented by Tripoli Patterson and James Cruickshank, will open with a reception for the 144 participating artists and the entire East End community this Saturday, November 30, from 4 to 9 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view at Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott until February 24, 2025.

Gallery owner Tripoli Patterson notes that this exhibition was inspired by all the artists whose work he has shown in the past two decades — both in his own gallery since 2009 and, beginning in 2005, in contemporary art shows that he produced and curated in New York City, Australia and North Carolina. So he started reaching out and reconnecting with the artists.

“With an overwhelming response, like Thich Nat Han says, ‘All of a sudden the right elements were there’ and the exhibition began to manifest,” Patterson said. “Looking back over the last two decades, now half of my life, many flashes of memories flutter through my mind. One person whose praises I’m inspired to sing is my godmother, Lisa de Kooning. She is an angel who’s shed the restraints of time, a teacher who makes the misfits feel wanted and cared about, a mother to three stunning and consciously attuned daughters, an animal whisperer of all breeds, a fighter and my godmother, who introduced my Caribbean father to my North Carolinian (Amagansian since 1957) mother.

“She helped me sign my first lease on Jobs Lane in Southampton when the Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art was born in 2009, and along the way taught me parts of the art world that are unteachable,” he added. “Thank you, Lisa, I dedicate ‘Breaking Bread’ to you.”

“Breaking Bread” features works by John Alexander, Linda K Alpern, Vahakn Arslanian, Michael Avedon, Alice Aycock, Yevgeniya Baras, Andrey Bartenev, Jonathan Beer, Katherine Bernhardt, Ashley Bickerton, Todd Bienvenu, Ross Bleckner, Dianne Blell, Stefan Bondell, Katherine Bradford, David Bromley, Mark Cora-Mooroom Bungaree, Otis Hope Carey, Sue Carlson, Sylvia Channing, Michael Chiarello, Matt Clark, Bob Colacello, Dan Colen, Lottie Consalvo, Scott Covert, Justin Crawford, Jennifer Cross, Scott Csoke, Quentin Curry, Lautaro Cuttica, Mira Dancy, Robert Dash, Verne Dawson, Willem de Kooning, Alice Dellal, Jeremy Dennis, Trefny Dix, Anh Duong, Sally Egbert, Sabra Moon Elliot, Jameson Ellis, Hannah Epstein, Ryan Estep, Sam Falls, Nick Farhi, Travis Fish, Herbie Fletcher, Roy Fowler, Connie Fox, Eric Freeman, Saskia Friedrich, Daniel Fuller, Rhys Gaetano, Félix Bonilla Gerena, Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel, Iván Girona, Ron Gorchov, Jeremy Grosvenor, Kurt Gumaer, Hiroyuki Hamada, Jeanette Hayes, Mary Heilmann, Juan Jose Heredia, Bengt Hokanson, Sven Hokanson, Alice Hope, Soren Hope, Judith Hudson, Genevieve Hudson-Price, Bjorn Iooss, Tara Israel, Lee Jaffe, Yung Jake, Marcus Jahmal, Deborah Katon, James Katsipis, Benjamin Keating, Sean Kinney, Laurie Lambrecht, Brianna Lance, Robyn Lea, Robert Longo, Melanie Luna, Brendon Lynch, Chuck Manion, Liz Markus, Kunle Martins, Dave Matterhorn, Dan McCarthy, Laith McGregor, Nick Mead, Angelbert Metoyer, Robert J. Miller, Lola Montes, Felicidad Moreno, Peter Ngo, Mamoun Nukumanu, Miles Partington, James de Pasquale, Matisse Patterson, Enoc Perez, Joel Perlman, Max Price, Jonathan Rajewski, Scott Reeder, Rene Ricard, Alexis Rockman, Rachel Rossin, Dominique Rousserie, Esther Ruiz, Mason Saltarrelli, Sally Saul, Mia Scarpa, Christina Schlesinger, Julian Schnabel, Enis Sefersah, Nathalie Shepherd, Bruce Sherman, Emmett Shine, Lucien Smith, Ned Smyth, Agathe Snow, Caroline Snow, Bosco Sodi, Keith Sonnier, Saul Steinberg, Gordon Stevenson, Billy Sullivan, Susan Tepper, José Luis Vargas, Claude Viallat, Igor Vishnyakov, Ross Watts, Nick Weber, Lauren West, Jerry Wilkerson, Lucy Winton, William Wood, Thomas Woodruff, Ozzy Wrong, Darius Yektai, Nico Yektai and Almond Zigmund.

“I am excited for the next chapters and decades to come as I am now certain that the foundation of the Tripoli Gallery is as solid as it can be, built by myself, the artists, my mom, my father, my brothers, my sisters, Lisa, my friends, my patrons, my believers, and my doubters,” Patterson added. “Here we go all in and look to inspire that mentality. If you want it, it is yours. If we aren’t making history then what are we doing? I stay charged with the belief that building this platform will continue to serve a much grander idea.”

Tripoli Gallery is at 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott. For details, visit tripoligallery.com.