Visual Arts

Detail from Ellen Wiener's "Substance," on view in Metafloric.
Riverhead Upcoming Visual Arts

Art in Riverhead: Metafloric Explores Visions of the Natural World

East End Beacon
At first glance, few would think to pair the work of Ellen Wiener and Bill Albertini. Yet beneath their markedly different practices lies a shared intellectual curiosity and an expansive vision of the natural world. Welcome to Metafloric, a new exhibition opening Saturday, Sept. 12 at East End Arts' new Andy Tarshis Gallery at 48 West Main Street in Riverhead. Pictured Above: Detail from Ellen Wiener's "Substance," on view in Metafloric.
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Thomas Halaczinsky, Fists Raised Forever, Women’s March, 2019.
Arts Upcoming Visual Arts

Final Weekend for Floyd Memorial’s “Portrait of America”

East End Beacon
During the summer in which the USA marks its 250th anniversary, "A Portrait of America," an exhibition on view through this Sunday, Sept. 6 at Greenport's Floyd Memorial Library, offers a reflection on, and of, the country. Pictured Above: Thomas Halaczinsky, Fists Raised Forever, Women’s March, 2019. The exhibition features twenty-one photographers who follow in the tradition of such iconic American documentary photographers as Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), Walker Evans (1903–1975) and Robert Frank (1924–2019). Most of the
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stray cat blues web
Arts Photos Recent Riverhead Visual Arts

“Detour” Takes A Turn to West Main Street, Picking Up Some Tunes Along The Way

Beth Young
East End Arts in Riverhead is fully embracing its current detour as its campus on East Main Street is revitalized along with the Town Square project.  And the arts organization's recent geographical details dovetail nicely with its seventh annual Detour exhibition, designed to highlight established artists, many of whom have work in the collections of major museums, who have a connection to the East End. Pictured Above: "Open for the
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Arts Photos Visual Arts

A Celebration of Artists Who Found a Muse in Greenport

Beth Young
The East End's stunning natural light, shining on a port filled with every type of vessel and a village filled with houses loved by carpenters, have long made Greenport a haven for artists. Pictured Above: Stow Wengenroth at work. This spring, North Fork resident Joanna Lane has loaned Greenport's Floyd Memorial Library a rare collection of more than 50 works by the lithographer Stow Wengenroth, who painter Andrew Wyeth once
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Photographer Mary Bertschi with her photographs and stained glass sculpture of a Baltimore Oriole — a bird she's photographed both here and in Honduras.
Arts Environment Photos Recent Visual Arts

Breaking Down Borders, For Birds and For People

Beth Young
As spring migration season reached symphony status here in recent weeks, the sounds of Baltimore orioles, wood thrushes and an array of warblers have filled the East End's air. If you haven't given much thought to what happens when that symphony goes silent here, take heart. North Fork Audubon knows. Pictured Above: Photographer Mary Bertschi with her photographs and stained glass sculpture of a Baltimore Oriole — a bird she's
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Renuka Ramcharan's photograph of a mute swan
Arts Environment Literature Photos Southampton Visual Arts

Out of the Classroom: Bringing a Love for Nature Alive with Photos and Words

Beth Young
It's easy to notice kids who may some day become scientists. They may stare, fascinated for hours, at ants following pheromone trails through the backyard, hide flinty rocks in the crevices of their homes and embark on experiments with the most basic of household equipment, cooking up fake food for wolves with your pots and pans. But kids with this innate curiosity often lose sight of what originally drew them
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Arts Recent Visual Arts

Lost and Found: Artist Anne Sherwood Pundyk on Reinventing Her Process

Beth Young
Mattituck-based painter Anne Sherwood Pundyk's work is told in a highly recognizable language of intense color and repeating patterns, on unstretched canvases that are often cut and then sewn back together, the threads and seams a part of an unfolding visual story. Pictured Above: Anne Sherwood Pundyk and curator Rainer Gross at the exhibition, with one of Ms. Pundyk's paintings at left and the prints from her recent residency at
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2026 Members Show (4x6) - 1
Artist's Toolbox: Calls for Art Arts Visual Arts

East End Arts Accepting Submissions for “In Motion” Through Jan. 3

East End Beacon
East End Arts in Riverhead opens its first exhibition of 2026 on Jan. 24 by celebrating the creativity, collaboration, and spirit of its members in the Elizabeth Richard Memorial Members’ Show. This show brings together artists of all disciplines to exhibit under a shared theme, which this year is "In Motion." "Movement is both the inspiration and the metaphor for this year’s show, symbolizing not only artistic energy and transformation but also the
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Arts Featured Photos Visual Arts

Bringing It All Back Home to Greenport

Beth Young
For the second time since it opened its doors in 2024, the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport hosted art galleries from across the North Fork on the Saturday after Thanksgiving for the opening of a show about what it means to be home. This year's show, theme, "There's No Place Like Home," was timed to coincide with the opening weekend of "Wicked: For Good" at the historic movie theater,
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The Worker
Arts Featured Visual Arts

New Exhibition at NFAC Celebrates “The Worker”

East End Beacon
OLA of Eastern Long Island is partnering with the North Fork Arts Center on a new art exhibition, The Worker, which "honors the humanity, dignity, diversity, and resiliency of workers, in all forms, across communities," according to the organizers of the exhibition. "It invites audiences to expand their understanding of labor beyond the reductive and transactional, offering instead a nuanced and deeply human portrait of those whose work sustains our world."
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Aurelio Torres's Three Hulls IV
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Garden Sculpture Framed In Autumn Light

Beth Young
An impressive array of landscape-scale sculpture is framed by the autumn light this season at the installation of "Uncommon Ground VI" at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton. As the gardens take on new light in the turning season, the public can visit this special place and have a chance to see the art up close through Oct. 7. Aurelio Torres's Three Hulls IV in the foreground, with Jerelyn Hanrahan's Big Pearl
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