On View:
Thursday, August 12th, 2021 –  Monday, September 6th, 2021
11:00am – 5:00pm

Receptions:
Upstairs: RE-MERGE – Curated by Heidi Lee Komaromi
Thursday, August 12th
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Downstairs: AUGUST WOMEN – Curated by Elena Prohaska
Friday, August 13th
5:00pm – 7:00pm

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
2418 Montauk Hwy
Bridgehampton, NY 11932

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Bridgehampton is pleased to announce two new exhibitions:

Downstairs: AUGUST WOMEN – Curated by Elena Prohaska
Upstairs: RE-MERGE – Curated by Heidi Lee Komaromi

This is the last exhibition in a series of four invited curators who will take over the Upstairs space at the gallery over the summer. Heide Lee Komaromi has curated the exhibition RE_MERGE – a group exhibition with work by Nicole Cohen, Steve Miller, Aldara Ortega, and Tatyana Murray. All are involved with new technologies to raise awareness about conservation and ecology. In the courtyard a digital installation will play digital NFT artworks in collaboration with the online platform UltrArt, and viewers will be able to bid in realtime via mobile devices. NFT works are by Christine Davis, Olga Ozerskaya, Firouz Farmanfarmaian, Max Lemaire and Daniel Lismore, with Dan Simerman’s ZED RUN a digital horse racing site.

In the the Downstairs space, ELENA PROHASKA has curated “AUGUST WOMEN” a group show of more painting and sculpture by 11 contemporary artists – Laurie Lambrecht, Monica Banks, Nancy Cohen, Denise Regan, Pamela Morgan, Nina Gillman, Katie DeGroot, Josette Urso, Marilla Palmer, Yolanda Sanchez and Bastienne Schmidt.

Each artist continues to bring fresh energy and vision to their work and all draw on basic elements of light, air, color, patterns in nature waking up our senses with self-assured and renewed inspiration. We can count on their ability to be original, unique, and satisfying to our eyes. Many of the artists (who all happen to be Aug-ust women) will be present at the reception.

ABOUT KATHRYN MARKEL FINE ARTS
Established in 1975 with the belief that significant contemporary art can be beautiful as well as visually and intellectually rigorous, Kathryn Markel Fine Art is committed to the experience of discovery and collecting at the highest level. Committed to serving a deep network of collectors and institutions, Kathryn Markel Fine art showcases a diverse array of primary market artists, unified by excellence in their craft, compelling intellectual framework, and a love of the art-making process.

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Thursday, August 5th, 2021 – Monday, August 30th, 2021
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Heritage Brazil
87 Powell Avenue
Southampton, NY

Mark had an established international law practice when he met Elisa Breton in Paris in 1992. They attended exhibitions of surrealist art, which Mark was collecting. Ms. Breton, in her late 80’s and the widow of Andre Breton, who founded the Surrealist Movement, challenged Mark to paint. She dared him to direct his passion for artistic voices into attempting to find his own. Mark accepted and, in his own words, ‘unlocked an inner volcano that has never stopped erupting.’

Mark is a self taught painter and photographer, who stages, directs, shoots, and prints dark fantasy, cinematic photo images.

His work has been shown in galleries in New York and around the world, including Japan, Korea, Belgium, Haiti, and the United Kingdom. He is working on an upcoming solo exhibition, for a gallery in Rome, Italy.

Mark seeks depth and an expression of inner truths in his painting. Like every artist whose goal is to develop the uniqueness of their own voice, his work changes and mutates, constantly breaking prior boundaries. With 29 years of experience, Mark’s work brims with the emotional vision and intelligence that come from experience and understanding.

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Saturday, August 7th, 2021 and Sunday August, 8th, 2021
10:00am – 6:00pm

Great Lawn
(corner of Potunk Lane and Main Street in Westhampton Beach)

The Greater Westhampton Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that it will host the annual Mary O. Fritchie Juried Fine Arts and Crafts Show on the Great Lawn (corner of Potunk Lane and Main Street in Westhampton Beach). The show will be held rain or shine on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 7 and 8, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The premier summer art show will feature more than 55 artists who specialize in artisan jewelry, oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, mixed media, wood and metal sculpture, and photography. All featured artists are chosen through a competitive selection process.

“We are proud to once again host a first-rate art show that showcases the talents of a variety of exceptional artists,” said Chamber President Ari Goodman.

The show, now in its 48^th year, began informally in the 1950s and was taken over in 1972 by the Chamber of Commerce, who named the event for then-Chamber Director Mary O. Fritchie. It has since grown and become a highly respected Hamptons art show that provides scholarship funding to graduating Westhampton Beach High School seniors who display a talent in the fine arts.

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