Parrish Art Museum Announces Advanced Exhibition Schedule for 2014-2017

LONG ISLAND -- The Parrish Art Museum has announced its Advanced Exhibition Schedule for 2014 and through 2017. The schedule is as follows:

Student Art Exhibiton - February 1-March 2, 2014. For over 60 years, the Parrish has reserved a spot in its annual exhibition schedule for student artwork, providing an exceptional opportunity for the students to experience their work on view in a professional museum. More than 1,000 young artists from private, public, parochial, and home schools participate.

Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe - Works 1970-2011 - April 27-July 13, 2014. Jennifer Bartlett is an artist whose radical and pioneering thematic and stylistic innovations have had a significant impact on contemporary American art of the last three decades. This first major museum survey of Bartlett's work, organized by Klaus Ottmann, former Parrish Art Museum adjunct curator and now Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Curator at Large at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue published by the Parrish Art Museum and distributed by Yale University Press. The exhibition was on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from June 27 - October 13, 2013.

William Glackens - July 20-October 13, 2014. Co-organized with the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and NOVA Southeastern University (NSU) Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, this long overdue survey of William Glackens's work will include some 75 works loaned by private collections and leading museums across the U.S. The exhibition will trace the artist's career from the mid-1890s to the 1930s, his achievements as a member of the radical American painters group known as The Eight, and his thorough embrace of Modernism, including his role as advisor to Dr. Albert Barnes in amassing his stellar art collection. Glackens's paintings of Long Island's Bellport Harbor will also be featured.

Mary Queen of the Universe: Steven and William Ladd - October 25, 2014-January 19, 2015. Mary Queen of the Universe features meticulously crafted sculpture, drawings, and prints by the fraternal collaborative team Steven and William Ladd. For more than ten years, Steven and William have explored the blurred boundaries between design and fashion, fine art and craft. In a decade of working together, with a concentrated-almost obsessive-fascination with materials and process, they have forged the foundation for a rich and productive creative process from their common early childhood memories and a close familial bond.

Alan Shields: In Motion - October 25, 2014-January 19, 2015. In Motion features selected sculpture, installations, and video documentation focusing on movement in the groundbreaking works of this innovative American artist. Alan Shields came of age artistically in New York in the 1960s. Expanding the boundaries of Minimalism's foundational grid, he established his voice as a master of aesthetic invention through a wide-ranging exploration of materials and techniques. The cornerstone of In Motion is Maze (1981-1982), Shields' most ambitious piece that functions simultaneously as a sculpture, a room, and a theatrical installation.

Student Art Exhibition - February 2015

Chuck Close Photographs - April 18-July 12 2015. This comprehensive survey explores how Chuck Close-perhaps one of the most important figures in contemporary art-has stretched the boundaries
of photographic means, methods, and approaches. The photographic origin of each Close painting is well known; however, Close's exploration of the medium extends far beyond the use of photographs as a programmatic tool. For the first time in his extensive exhibition history, this project delves into the full range of his photographic works, presenting more than 125 images spanning 1968 to the present, ranging from straightforward black and white portraits to monumentally scaled, composite Polaroids to the intimately scaled daguerreotypes.

Andreas Gursky - July 19-October 12, 2015. German visual artist Andreas Gursky is renowned for his monumentally scaled photographs-grand urban and natural landscape vistas and large format architecture-created from a dispassionate, omniscient point of view. Highly detailed, and shot from an elevated vantage point, Gursky's images are at once dead-pan observational and transcendent. He rigorously composes his expansive views to envelop viewers with dizzying scale, detail, and color-effects he often heightens through digital manipulation of the image. The Parrish will present an exhibition of the work of this artist, who was instrumental in defining contemporary German art in the 1990s and has been called one of the "two masters" of the Düsseldorf School.

Robert de Niro, Sr.: The Act of Seeing - October 24, 2015-January 17, 2016. The art of Robert De Niro, Sr., (1922-1993) transgresses the prevailing historical narrative; in an era when Abstract Expressionism was heralded as a new, solely American movement that broke from the past, his embrace of the French modernist tradition set his work apart. In subject matter, he never felt a need to venture beyond the established themes of landscape, still life, and the figure, yet within these self-imposed confines he evolved an art that defied convention as resolutely as the art of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries.

Student Art Exhibition: February 2016.

Image Building: Architecture as Form in Photography (working title) - April 16-June 25, 2016. Image Building explores the complex and dynamic relationship between the spectator, photography, architecture, and time through the lens of architectural photography in America and Europe from the 1920s to the present. Organized by guest curator Therese Lichtenstein, Image Building will survey the ways in which historical and contemporary photographers explore the relationship between architecture and identity, featuring contemporary photographers Iwan Baan, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Ruff, within the context of early modernist architectural photographers like Julius Shulman, Lewis Baltz, and Berenice Abbott whose influential
works transformed our vision and concept of architecture.

Ross Bleckner/Eric Fischl/David Salle - July 9-October 23, 2016. Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle all came of age as professional artists in the miss-1980s. Friends and professional colleagues, they initially met as students at Cal Arts in Los Angeles, moved to New York City concurrently, and subsequently constructed studios on the East End of Long Island. Organized by Parrish adjunct curator David Pagel, this exhibition will explore, compare, and contrast the interconnected philosophies, aesthetics, form, and content of these three signature American painters, outlining cross influences and divergences in their approach to art-making.

Artists Choose Artists - November 2016-January 2017. Artists Choose Artists is the Parrish Art Museum's ongoing, juried exhibition that celebrates artists on the East End and the dynamic relationships uniting the area's creative community. For this exhibition, seven distinguished East End artists serve as jurors, each making two selections from hundreds of online submissions and subsequent studio visits. A reflection of the region's unique heritage as an artist colony, Artists Choose Artists initiates introductions and fellowship among today's expanded, multi-generational network of artists. Video interviews with each artist demonstrate the diversity of contemporary practice and the evolving, yet interconnected history of artists on the East End.

Student Art Exhibiton - February-March 2017.

John Graham: Maverick Modernist - April 15-July 8 2017. John Graham: Maverick Modernist is a comprehensive survey of significant scope and scholarship. It explores how the artist became an influential figure in the development of a distinctly American approach to art-making in the first half of the twentieth century and in what ways Graham's own self-reinvention as an artist mirrors the resourcefulness and ambition of American artists defining a new direction. Featuring approximately 55 paintings and a selection of important works on paper from the entire expanse of Graham's four-decade career, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated, 150-page catalogue with interpretive essays by the curators.

Radical Seafaring - July 14-October 22, 2017. Radical Seafaring features 25 artists (historical to emerging) whose works illuminate a significant new direction in contemporary creative practice; artist-initiated waterborne research. This practice serves as a means to thoroughly understand, appreciate and examine the increasingly complex relationship between humans and the environment. The exhibition will survey artists' direct engagement with the water from mid-twentieth century conceptual and performance works to contemporary artistic and field-based research. Radical Seafaring is envisioned as a multidisciplinary exhibition, publication, and program initiative that will include two-dimensional works, sculptural objects, film and video, on- and off-site installations and actions, boat trips, and artist-led experiences around the East End's waterways. Artists under consideration are Bas Jan Ader, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Matthew Buckingham, Chris Burden, Mark Dion, Cesar Harada, Constance Hockaday, Peter Hutton, Filip Jonker, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Hans Schabus, Simon Starling, SIMPARCH, Aaron Suggs, Swoon, and Andrea Zittel. Organized by Andrea Grover, Parrish curator of Special Projects.

Artists Choose Artists - November 5, 2017-January 21, 2018.

The Parrish Art Museum is the oldest cultural institution on the East End of Long Island, uniquely situated
within one of the most concentrated creative communities in the United States. The Parrish is dedicated
to the collection, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of art from the nineteenth century to the
present, with a particular focus on honoring the rich creative legacy of the East End, celebrating the
region's enduring heritage as a vibrant art colony, telling the story of our area, our "sense of place," and
its national-even global-impact on the world of art. The Parrish is committed to educational outreach,
to serving as a dynamic cultural resource for its diverse community, and to celebrating artistic innovation
for generations to come.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Bartlett