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Galvanized steel works by Nathan Slate Joseph will be on view in "Weavers" at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor.

Five at Keyes Art
By Mark Segal
November 14, 2024

"Weavers," a show of work by Amy Zerner, Nathan Slate Joseph, Sheila Rotner, Nils Bruun, and Pamela Topham, will open at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. It will continue through Dec. 16.

Ms. Zerner's art incorporates a diverse array of materials, including prints from the Ivory Coast, lace from England, and silk from India. Mr. Joseph is known for his abstract compositions in galvanized steel, applying mineral pigments mixed with acid and water to create rhythmic pieces.

Mr. Bruun, who died last year, created folded paper designs whose single sheet of paper has as many as four layers and no cuts. Pencil sketches, photographs, and site visits are the sources of Ms. Topham's tapestry designs, which are woven with wool, silk, and linen. Ms. Rotner creates textured abstract compositions using sand and acrylic on paper.

Few people knew John Lennon as intimately as May Pang. Pang was Lennon’s lover during the infamous “Lost Weekend” which lasted 18 months during late 1973 through 1975. During this highly creative time for Lennon, Pang took candid photos of Lennon in a comfortable, relaxed environment. A collection of these private photographs will be on display and available for purchase at Keyes Art, 45 Main Street, Sag Harbor, on Saturday, September 14, and Sunday, September 15.

Pang will be in attendance at Keyes Art all weekend, meeting customers and telling stories behind these amazing limited-edition photographs for sale of John Lennon.

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor presents “For the Love Of,” an exhibition opening Saturday, August 17, from 5 to7 p.m. and running through September 13. The show includes work by artists Sybil Yurman, Judith Henriques-Adams, Walter Bobbie and Sheila Rotner.

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Sybil Yurman has been a force in the New York and international art world for decades. After graduating art school in New York City, she painted her striking images and abstractions, consistently showing in galleries and other institutions to great fanfare. Her work is literally related to the fundamentals of abstraction.

On New Year’s Day 2018, Walter Bobbie began drawing in a journal that had been a recent gift. “I drew spontaneously each morning. Whatever was in front of me. On the table. In my mind. Dreams. Imaginings,” he said. “One uninspired morning I drew the lineup of talking heads segmented across the screen on MSNBC. My drawing prompt was Paul Klee’s ‘A line is a dot that went for a walk.’ So pencil to pad, I walked. And walked and walked and enjoyed my company more and more.”

'Flock of Genius ~ 2 at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor opens “Flock of Genius ~ 2,” a new show featuring the work of Michael Butler, Helen Frankenthaler, Fay Lansner, Joan Mitchell and Lucy Villeneuve, with a reception on Saturday, July 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will remain on view through August 18.

Sag Harbor artist, historian and documentarian Michael Butler defines his style as narrative folk art or “intuitive” and his preferred medium is acrylic on canvas although at times he incorporates other media. Works of wonder and imagination in the mode of the great Henri Rousseau, Butler’s work is exacting, captivating, and often historically inspired.

OPENING RECEPTION: Sat July 13th 6-8pm

East Hampton Star
06/27/24
by Mark Segal

Five at Keyes

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will open “Flock of Genius 2,” a show of work by Michael Butler, Helen Frankenthaler, Fay Lansner, Joan Mitchell, and Lucy Villeneuve, on Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
Frankenthaler was among the second-generation Abstract Expressionist painters. In the climate of abstraction, Lansner concentrated on the human form. Mitchell is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists of the post-war era.
Mr. Butler is a self-described narrative folk artist. Ms. Villeneuve is inspired by the elements of Taoism and the art of non-doing.
The show will run through Aug. 18.

This windswept portrait by Rainer Andreesen will be at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor.

OPENING RECEPTION: Sat June 29th 6-8pm

East Hampton Star
06/27/24
by Mark Segal

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will open “Flock of Genius,” an exhibition of work by Rainer Andreesen, Cornelia Foss, ROZEAL, Tammy Smith, Warren McHugh, and Edith Vonnegut, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. It will remain on view through July 12.

Ms. Vonnegut has said her aim is to “rewrite the history of women, as I think we have been portrayed incorrectly from Eve on.” ROZEAL’s paintings and collages bring together Asian and African-American aesthetic traditions. Ms. Smith is known for her evocative and whimsical creations inspired by animals.

McHugh, who died in 1986, was a folk artist whose carved wooden figures included members of his Sag Harbor community. Ms. Foss is a painterly realist who paints the beaches and landscapes of the East End, while Mr. Andreesen is known for his often intense, expressive portraits.

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor presents the exhibit “Textures” at Hans Van de Bovenkamp Studio at 93 Merchants Path in Sagaponack.
The artists “explore primarily the surface through bold color, through the surface, through alluring texture,” said Julie Keyes of the show.

Artists include Judith Henriques-Adams, Walter Bobbie, Hans Van De Bovenkamp, Arnold Hoffman Jr., Nathan Slate Joseph, Ben Leone, John MacWhinnie, Maria Schon, and Peter Solow.

The exhibit will run through July 30. An opening reception will be on Saturday, June 15, from 4 to 7 PM — Click here to Read in James Lane Post

Elisabetta Zangrandi at Keyes Art, Sag Harbor

A self-taught artist who paints visionary landscapes inhabited by flora and fauna, Elisabetta Zangrandi made her way into the international art world from her home in the Italian countryside via Instagram in 2017. From that point on, her life as a painter blossomed.

For the exhibition, “Musée Imaginaire,” curated by the talented Alison M. Gingeras, Zangrandi has painted 15 fascinating portraits of famous female artists from across the ages. Ranging from the 12th-century German nun and illuminator Guda, who was one of the first women to depict her own image in a manuscript, to the artist Alice Neel, one of America’s greatest portrait painters of the 20th century, the Italian artist has interpreted each of the past artists’ self-portraits in her charming, naïve, imaginative style.

Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon.
The Italian painter’s latest solo exhibition ‘Musée Imaginaire’ looks to past generations of women artists to stage a new present.

As one of America’s most influential and celebrated photographers, Bert Stern was known for his iconic portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Kate Moss, Brigitte Bardot, Marlon Brando and Ray Charles and many others. During his 50-year-career, he created countless award-winning ads, editorial features, magazine covers, films, and portraits — Read More

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor opens two shows, one featuring the work of photographer Bert Stern and the other highlighting the ceramics of Hilary Helfant.

Bert Stern became one of the most sought-after fashion, advertising and art photographers. His work was widely exhibited, and notable featured showings include “I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and “The Last Sitting” at Musee Maillol in Paris.
Hilary Helfant, based on the East End, is a ceramic artist and geometric abstractionist. She explores patterns and layers in natural forms. Her pieces don’t replicate nature but develop organically on their own. Using a sphere shape as a starting point, she makes sculpture that one doesn’t just look at, but looks into. Read More

Keyes Art & AB NY Gallery Present ‘The Big Tent’

Keyes Art and AB NY Gallery present “The Big Tent,” a group show of eight artists who make larger-scale work essential to their studio practice. The show will open on January 28, with a reception from 5 to 7 PM at AB NY in East Hampton — Read More

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor Presents Halsted Welles

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor presents an exhibition of photographs and videos by Halsted Welles, including garden portraits, long-form time-lapse videos, and triptychs with digital stills of gardens built and maintained by Halsted Welles Associates, over the last 40 years. Halsted Welles works at the intersection of natural and built systems, integrating art, design, and horticulture with the belief that a watershed consciousness is the fabric of social discourse.The show runs through February 9 — Read More

Actor, studio executive and artist Ted Hartley unveiled his newest exhibition, Stories in Color, at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor on Saturday, October 22.

The show features more than 20 of Hartley’s works, including his Ukraine Series, with proceeds benefiting the Olena Zelenska Foundation, a newly formed charity founded by the First Lady of Ukraine that provides medicine, education, and humanitarian aid. 

The opening celebration included a party where Keyes Art Gallery welcomed more than 50 notable art lovers, industry professionals and media influencers. Among the guests were artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl; art collectors E.T. and Lyn Williams; Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Parrish Art Museum; Carrie Rebora Barratt, interim director of LongHouse Reserve et al; Read Article Here

Nela Arias-Misson’s ‘Faith’ Comes to Keyes Art in Sag Harbor

Just in time for HarborFest weekend, Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will unveil a new solo exhibition featuring the work of late Cuban-born painter Nela Arias-Misson. The show, titled Faith, debuts with an opening reception on Saturday, September 10, 5–7 p.m., and will remain on view through October 23.

“It is probably our most exciting thing we’ve ever done. … No one has shown her work before,” says Julie Keyes, the gallery’s owner and namesake. “This is a major gallery endeavor in our little suburb of Sag Harbor.”
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Spotlight: An Exhibition at Keyes Art Revives the Work of Abstract Expressionist Painter Nela Arias-Misson

"Nela Arias-Misson: Faith" is on view in Sag Harbor through December 23, 2022.

ARNET - Why We Like It: The exhibition “Nela Arias-Misson: Faith,” presented by Keyes Art, is a welcome opportunity to reevaluate the artist’s standing, given that women’s contributions were often overlooked during that period. The influence of Hofmann and AbEx as well as later developments in painting are evident in works like Untitled (1961), which achieves the flattened sense of space typical of Hofmann, but adds gestural paintwork and a distinctive color palette. Organized by painter George Negroponte, the show brings together an exemplary selection of Arias-Misson’s work illustrating the progress and achievements that she realized both on a personal artistic level, as well as within the development of abstraction in the 20th century.

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New art exhibit in Greenport explores untold
queer stories of the North Fork

A new art exhibit in Greenport seeks to tell an exuberant, untold piece of local history through illustration.“Fashion: A Hidden History” is now on display at the Natali/Keyes gallery on Main Street and will be shown through Aug. 15.The collection features drawings and collages by Jerry Schofield, a fashion illustrator and artist who was commissioned by iconic brands and designers including Lord and Taylor and Henri Bendel, where he met his partner, Frank McIntosh.The two lived in a majestic captain’s 17th-century mansion along Main Road in Greenport, according to acclaimed art historian and curator Alison Gingeras, who organized the exhibit at the Greenport gallery.“At first glance, without knowing all of the history, it looks like contemporary art,” Gingeras said in a recent interview at the gallery, where the walls were recently painted bright pink. “They look like the work of Karen Kilimnick or other painters I’ve worked with before who quote this style. There’s this campy citation in the work.”The evocative ink drawings, collages and gouache paintings are a peek into Schofield’s influence on the fashion world, but also a glimpse at the hidden history of artists obscured by the homophobia of their era.

Ted Hartley and Keyes Art offer this painting ‘KYIV, Pro Patria,’ for purchase, with all the profit going to help the people of Ukraine stand up against Russia’s brutal invasion.
The artist has committed the full purchase price of this painting to three Ukrainian relief agencies. The bids are open at Keyes Gallery.

Supporting-
Spirit of America (Ukraine), Red Cross Intl (Ukraine), Come Back Alive (Ukraine)

To Purchase or Inquire - Call Keyes Gallery, Sag Harbor 631-808-3588

The final iteration of the multi-site exhibition “Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Future by Honoring Now” will open Saturday at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Organized by Eden Williams and Julie Keyes, it will feature work by Thornton Dial, Erika Ranee, and Leslee Stradford.
Dial, who died in 2016, was a self-taught artist whose dense wall reliefs and sculptures made from found materials told the story of Black struggle in the South. 
Of her paintings, Ms. Ranee has said, “I take cues from the cacophony of city streets, its sounds and smells, as well as from minutiae of the natural world, and pull it all together in an intuitive visual freestyle.” 
Dr. Stradford’s art engages with social, cultural, and historical issues, as exemplified by her series “The Night Tulsa Died: The Black Wall Street Massacre, 1921.”
The exhibition will run through March 31.
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~Mark Segal for East Hampton Star, March 3, 2022

Exploring Afrofuturism: Black Artists Featured In 4 Shows Across The East End

With February on the horizon and Black History Month soon to begin, exhibitions and cultural programs abound that pay tribute to the many contributions African Americans have made to the country and society at large. 
But in designing a Black History Month exhibition for the East End, gallery owner Julie Keyes, who counts many African American collectors among her clients, looked to do something a bit more expansive, creative and thought-provoking to highlight the work of Black artists in light of social justice movements that have gained traction in recent years.
So Keyes joined forces with Eden Williams, daughter of Sag Harbor residents and avid art collectors E.T. and Lyn Williams, to curate a series of four shows across the region offering a cross-section of work by some of the most dynamic African American artists working on the scene today.
As Williams notes, the goal of the Afrofuturism exhibitions is to honor abstract Black painters who have broken out of the mold and have removed the heavy race-themed narrative of politics and struggle from their work in order to paint about life in abstraction. 
“We can reimagine a world in the future where more and more Black painters are not bound to race narratives and the burden of representing one element of the ‘Black experience’ in order to be seen and heard,” Williams noted.

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‘Keyes Art Presents “AFROFUTURISM,” a show that reimagines the future by honoring now, a multi-site exhibit curated by Julie Keyes and Eden Williams. This exhibit will be in 4 parts in 4 different venues.
The first exhibition will open on Saturday, January 29, from 4:30 to 6 PM, at the newly-founded Natali/Keyes Gallery in Greenport. Featured artists include Claude Lawrence, Erika Renee, Faith Ringgold, and Clintel Steed. The show will run through March 31.’
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Keyes Art presents Eyewitness, an exhibition meant to confirm that Modernism is alive and well. The artworks in this show are immersed in a visual and pictorial language, aspiring to convey a sense of meaning and purpose, and to ignore the posturing of the zeitgeist of the 1960s.