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Art Shamsky from the 1969 World Champion NY Mets visited Berry Campbell yesterday!

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We are so pleased to have been able to work with Garrow Kedigian Interior Design for Kravet | Lee Jofa | Brunschwig & Fils New York City for this fabulous show room! Paintings on loan by Balcomb Greene, Raymond Hendler and Ann Purcell. Please visit the D & D building when you are in the neighborhood!

Renowned American artist Frank Stella discusses his friend and contemporary Walter Darby Bannard’s paintings.

Discussion with Mike Solomon about Syd Solomon: Views from Above
Cocktails & Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Thursday, November 15, 2018
5 - 7 PM
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The appearance of effortless beauty is not easy to produce. But this is the aspiration of Susan Vecsey's current show at Berry Campbell, an exhibition of twenty recent paintings, including her largest to date.

The artist has been working on this series of abstractions from nature for over a decade. She pours one layer at a time over a textured Belgian linen, creating subtle variations on the surface. Every next pour is a new layer of calculated risk.

Untitled (Blue/Gold) (all are 2018) is a six-foot square, most of which is a light gray. Across the lower edge, bands of vibrant gold, blue, and blue-black create a wide expanse that envelops the viewer.

The dark blues and deep reds in Untitled (Nocturne) are a new experiment. That composition and Untitled (Nocturne II) extend her range as a colorist, with wide spaces that shimmer with iridescence. 

Vecsey's paintings are entirely concerned with color, light, and surface. They require looking at up close, in person.

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We are preparing for our Walter Darby Bannard exhibition, opening on November 15, 2018. Please read our online catalogue to learn more about the artist and his career.

Walter Darby Bannard: Paintings from 1969 to 1975
November 15 - December 21, 2018

Opening Reception
November 15, 2018
6 - 8 PM

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton
Saturday, November 3, 2018
12:00 pm
Free Admission
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Join Gail Levin, Ph.D., in the Boots Lamb Education Center for a lecture on the artist Syd Solomon (1917-2004) whose work is on view in the exhibition Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed. Levin is a primary contributor to the exhibition catalogue. She has also authored Lee Krasner: A Biography, in addition to many other works.

Gail Levin (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Professor of Art History, American Studies and Women Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is an art historian specializing in art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with diverse research interests that include the work of Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Judy Chicago, women artists, Jewish artists, Chinese emigre artists, and contemporary art of the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as American Studies and the cinema. 

Amar Singh’s eponymous Islington gallery has a simple but laudable ethos, specializing in exhibitions of LGBTQ and female artists with diverse, progressive narratives. Raised in London but a member of the royal Kapurthala family of Punjab, Singh was one of many political campaigners who made up a global coalition that last month recorded a landmark legal victory in India, overturning the country’s 2013 criminalization of gay sex. Now, Amar Gallery is turning to one of the lesser-known histories of art, with an exhibition of the women behind Abstract Expressionism in 1950s and 60s America. Lynne Mapp Drexler, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan and myriad others take pride of place in Hiding in Plain Sight, which explores the female painters who have been neglected in favour of their more barnstorming counterparts—the Rothkos, the Pollocks and the Newmans. There’s a pioneering spirit to the paintings, be they the natural blooms Drexler cultivated on her canvases, or the liquid colour-field stains of Helen Frankenthaler, made all the more engrossing by the fact that many of these artists have never been exhibited in the U.K. before.