South Fork Artists

www.eileenokanekornreich.com

Artist Statement
My art traverses the boundaries of expression, narration and abstraction. I take a fluid approach to art-making informed by these trajectories in which I place drawings in my paintings and paintings in my drawings. Textured surfaces emerge from detailed and precise layering. Mark-making defines my process: whether cutting into layers, erasing lines, or blocking out forms, the history of my work is evident throughout my practice. These hints of past versions of my artwork point toward a true form that has been grasped many times, altered, and worn out over time. My artwork recently incorporates gestures and mark-making in diverse mediums including sculpture in clay relief and screenprinting: I am constantly inspired to continue the search for how to best present layers of texture and line in my practice. By embedding core precepts of my approach into a range of materials, I can better gain a sense of the concrete nature of the themes which I am investigating.

The overlap of history, identity and ecology inform the themes I allude to in my practice. In recent work, I directly reference Mesopotamian mythology and explore social conditions of the time along with the potent visual power imbued within deities from this time period, searching for resonance and relevance of these ideologies in contemporary life. My interest lies in reaching across the barrier of time to portray beauty, love, sex, and identity. Exploring non-binary beauty is also a core theme in my work, as gender-fluid deities pervade my narrative works in dialogue with abstract landscape and flat planes of color. These non-binary deities carry regal trappings, draped with luxurious feathers and beads. This juxtaposition between these deities’ apparent finery and their meaning as protection from war and destruction piques my interest. My work engages with this dichotomy, examining beauty in the wake of war and destruction and offering an examination of the tension that binds and divides these two aspects of the social contract.

Biography
Eileen O’Kane Kornreich is a visual artist living in New York. She has created paintings and drawings since the mid-1970s. In 1978 Eileen had two shows that helped to re-establish Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton as a DIY gallery and also showed her work at artist spaces in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side through the 1980s. For several years from the late 1970s to 1981, she worked as a studio assistant for Ray Parker and Dane Dixon in de Kooning’s prep studio in Springs, NY. After years working as a full-time creative food concepts chef to support her family, she has returned to full-time artmaking since 2014. She has participated in residencies at The Watermill Center and School for Visual Arts. Last year, the artist became a finalist for the Lighthouse Works Fellowship and this year she is participating in an Atlantic Center Master Artist Residency.

www.laurielambrecht.com

Biography
Laurie Lambrecht, a native of Bridgehampton, is a visual artist working in photography and fiber. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the US and abroad. Her photographs are in the collection of museums including the National Gallery of Art, Portland Art Museum, and the Parrish Art Museum. In the early 1990’s she worked as administrative assistant to Roy Lichtenstein simultaneously photographing the artist and his process. “Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio” the monograph of her project was published by Monacelli Press in 2011. She has worked with theatre artist Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center intermittently since 1993. From 2012­-2014 Lambrecht photographed a documentary project of the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva,Florida. Laurie’s own work is an observation of the natural world especially of trees and vegetation. In autumn of 2019, Laurie was a Road Show artist of the Parrish Museum and presented an outdoor installation at Madoo Garden Conservancy. Recently Lambrecht has been a fellow at artist residencies including: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Watermill Center, and Rauschenberg Residency. In 2013, she taught students in Medellin, Colombia in the program Literacy through Photography. Recently she has taught hand weaving to incarcerated women at the Riverhead County jail in a program in association with the Parrish Museum. She has given talks about her work at The National Gallery of Art, The Morgan Library, and The Art Institute of Chicago among other venues.

www.stevemiller.com
www.stevemiller.art
www.healthoftheplanet.art
IG @stevemillerdotcom

Artist Statement
The earth has given it’s response to Covid-19. We have neglected and exploited nature and pushed animals into a conflict with humans. Humankind has crowded out nature to such an extent, by living in close proximity and stress, that disease can jump from animal to human. This pandemic, like climate change, has been predicted for years. What is astounding is how quickly nature recovers when we are forced into our homes and we just let nature be. The lesson is obvious. “Health of the Planet” is a project started in Brazil in 2005 and continues today as a visual medical checkup of the flora, fauna and land use in the Amazon, the lungs of our planet. The first sculpture for this project was made for Longhouse Reserve in 2008. It now sits in my garden in front of my Sagaponack studio. The image is an x-ray of an Amazon orchid made in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Biography
Steve Miller has been working with art, science and technology since 1980. He has collaborated with the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Rod MacKinnon, on a project about human protein. He has worked at Brookhaven National Labs and at CERN in Geneva where he lectured to the Theory Group. For a decade, Miller worked on a photographic project about the Amazon. Miller proposed to give Brazil, our planetary lungs, a medical check-up by taking x-rays of the flora and fauna. The project entitled “Heath of the Planet” has been published as two monographs, Radiographic and Surf/Skate, by Glitterati Editions. His work has been presented as solo exhibitions in Paris, Hong Kong, Rio, London, Boston, New York City and, most recently, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

Artist statement:
Since I can remember, I have always been intrigued with various mediums as an artist. I was one of only 2 people to take advantage of my colleges’ offering of a “fine arts major”. We were the last graduates of the program. It enabled me to explore and be influenced by all mediums  while focusing a little more on painting. I am also heavily influenced by experience and simple observation. Much of my experiences have been recorded in drawings and paintings and of course always photography. Photography has always been a major influence in my paintings. I photograph things to help me see them better. Until recently I used it more as a tool than as an art form.

My mind is constantly working to keep me interested in making art. Sometimes that means manipulating my medium, or style. In the end the changes make sense and seem logical. I tend to stick with the natural world as subject matter because I find it endlessly fascinating. The last change I made felt a bit abrupt but really it’s a perfect progression. I accidentally discovered  hunting cameras for a reason unrelated to my artwork. I needed some low tech surveillance help and found it with these motion activated cameras. Immediately, I decided I must use this medium in my artwork. I started a learning process that was quite thrilling.

The next chapter in my art making career is quite a learning process. Now I am bringing elements of film into the process, animating my 1000’s of photographs to tell a story. The story is of what happens when we aren’t looking. Where I live there is a very diverse cross section of the human population. Very poor-very rich. People tend to see wealth and nothing else, not even nature. In one short film, “The Drain Ditch” I have recorded a parade of wildlife from foxes to maggots about 500 yards from the most expensive property around. Do they know? Do they care?  What matters is I do and I am very pleased with the end result in my film clips. The learning process is taking me into the world of creative editing of these digital images.

With this new work I have exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum ironically hosting a Road Show in 2012. In 2014, I worked with the Nature Conservancy and The Andy Warhol Foundation to produce a year long body of work shot in the Warhol Preserve in Montauk called Eothen shown at Brooklyn Photo Studio in 2015. I worked with Solomon Contemporary on a one person show of The Fox Den and again in 2016 in a show called Lake life in Washington Depot, CT.  A new show at Standard Space gallery in Sharon CT has been postponed till September.

What you will see for Drive-By-Art is a photograph that I took with my hunting camera in the rare vacant village wooded lot behind it. It’s a place I visit often and I wanted that snapshot of what’s happening when we aren’t looking. What is happening outside of the hustle and bustle and crazy traffic just 150’ away.

www.stephenneidich.com
www.wildingcran.com

Artist Statement
Stephen Neidich’s kinetic sculptures are made of industrial metal objects and tools found in the studio and the outside world. They leverage our familiarity of everyday objects against experience and performance of making art. These gestural spinning and rotating sculptures make plain how, and from what materials they are made, the acrobatics of their production.

Biography
Stephen Neidich was born in New York City and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His work spans installation, sculpture. He received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from CalArts. Neidich most recently had a solo exhibition at Wilding Cran, Los Angeles; his work has also been exhibited at Night Gallery, The Underground Museum, Nicodim Gallery Los Angeles, Hilde, Chimento Contemporary, Anat Ebgi and LA><ART in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Vienna, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Berlin and at 211 Elizabeth Street in New York City, amongst others. His work has been featured in Art Forum, CARLA, Artillery Magazine, and Wallpaper Magazine. He is currently represented by Wilding Cran.

Artist Statement
There is seemingly a notion that we are all being “tried” or “tested” as a people. I thought about in a reflective sense this is a crucial time for letting go of what no longer serves us, a sense of shedding. I naturally thought of the serpent as a creature which is constantly shedding old skin. I feel we are shedding old skin too, and entering a new world of unexplored territory. I created this site specific sculpture to expand on this notion.

Biography
Cassi Namoda (b. 1988 Maputo, Mozambique) is a painter and performance artist who explores the intricacies of social dynamics and mixed cultural and racial identity. Capturing scenes of everyday life, from mundane moments to life-changing events, Namoda paints a vibrant and nuanced portrait of post-colonial Mozambique within an increasingly globalised world. Namoda deftly captures scenes which have the appearance of film stills: fleeting snapshots within much larger narratives. Her paintings range from bustling, faceless crowds to close-up individual portraits and her characters often stare out of the paintings, locking eyes with the viewer and breaking the fourth wall. Interweaving her own memories and imagination with images from archival photographs and the works of other artists, Namoda reflects on the cultural specificity of Mozambique, her birthplace and home for several years. Recent solo exhibitions include François Ghebaly, Los Angeles and Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami. Namoda’s work has been included in exhibitions at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York; CFHILL, Stockholm; Library Street Collective, Detroit; Nicodim Galleries, Los Angeles and Bucharest. This year Namoda was named one of the ‘Rising Arts Stars of 2020’ by Elephant Magazine and was commissioned to paint a cover for the January issue of Vogue Italia. Her work is held in the collection of Pérez Art Museum, Miami. She works between Los Angeles and New York.

www.joelperlman.com

Reflections
The coronavirus is hard for all of us. I am lucky to have a great studio out here and can work every day. I enjoy the peace and quiet (especially now), but the isolation is getting old. I miss my friends and my peers and looking at a lot of art. No museums, no galleries, no studio visits, no teaching at SVA. My work is very labor intensive and that keeps me busy; but I am ready for more human contact.

Artist Statement
Making sculpture is an adventure for me. I never plan, I just start working and see what happens. I might pick a type of metal or a scale, but aside from that, I am just winging it. Sometimes it’s hard and sometimes it’s easy, but when I finally get there it’s always exciting.

Biography
Joel Perlman is best known for his sculptures that juxtapose flat circular and geometric shapes of welded steel, aluminum, and bronze in three-dimensional space. His sculptures sketch themselves out in airy volumes, both glorifying and defying the weight and density of the materials. He is represented by Loretta Howard Gallery, New York. Please see his website for more information.

www.studiotoniross.com

Artist Statement
The collapsing and expanding sense of time during this period of quarantine continues to alter how we experience each day, each hour and each moment. It has challenged our memories and our sense of being in the here and now. Six foot social distancing adds to our sense of disorientation and longing. Our installation, “When” is a calendar of sorts, a marking of time and space during a profoundly altered state of time and being.

Support Our Community
Sara and Toni have donated the work to Hayground School in Bridgehampton, NY to be sold either as a whole or as individual chairs. The proceeds will benefit the tuition assistance program at Hayground where over 82% of families receive tuition assistance. Choose your birthday, an anniversary or a grouping of dates or today, tomorrows, and yesterdays. Use your imagination and help us support Hayground in the process. Thank you. Please see studiotoniross.com or https://www.hayground.org/donate2/drive-by-art-donation for more information.

Sara Salaway Biography
A graduate of Bennington College ‘15 with a focus on photography, Sara Salaway’s artwork explores trauma and its connection to the human body and psyche using viscerally pungent textures and images. Through her work in photography and other visual forms, she leads viewers to become witnesses to the discomfort life brings, creating both a sense of intimate beauty, pain and timeless longing and a search for proof of memories.

Toni Ross Biography
Toni Ross is a sculptor and installation artist. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in Film Studies in 1979, she returned to her roots in drawing and clay. Ross’s recent works include site-responsive projects that range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, employing a variety of materials including twine, iron, straw, gold leaf, and wall-mounted ceramics.

Long interested in the effects of the passage of time as well as the rhythm and aesthetic of language and words, Ross’s work explores the abstract qualities of these elements. Creating an implied narrative, she invites the viewer to bring their own history and personal experience to the interpretation of her works.

Ross has exhibited her art in New York City, East Hampton, Washington, DC, Paris, the Berkshires, and London. In 2019, she was awarded a Yaddo fellowship. Earlier that year, she was the recipient of the Dick Cavett Champion of The Arts Award from the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Toni Ross lives and works in Wainscott, New York.

www.matthewsatz.com