SALON
ROTATING EXHIBITIONS | BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
62 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY
SALON
Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce that The Garage will re-open beginning Memorial Day Weekend. The Garage will be open Saturday–Monday from 11AM – 6PM and by appointment throughout the season. The Garage is the gallery’s sweeping 7,000 square foot warehouse space at 62 Newtown Lane.
The 2023 summer season initiates a new concept: an ongoing dialogue of cross generational curation that will rotate through the summer. The installation is conceived as a “salon,” combining historic material represented by the gallery, and younger generations of contemporary artists.
Lucia Wilcox Untitled, 1958
The open warehouse space has been recently renovated with specially designed large moveable walls to create exciting exhibition possibilities. The gallery hopes that the Salon installation will encourage viewers to spend extended time looking. The installations will visually showcase and highlight the gallery’s mission: an ongoing reevaluation of the art historical canon, and its legacy and influence on younger artists.
Ibram Lassaw, Ourania, 1980
The dramatic installation includes monumental abstract paintings from the 1950s alongside work completed as recently as this past year. Also in the mix are sculptural works including an 8 foot tall mosaic totem by Jeanne Reynal, a welded metal sculpture—like a painting in space—by Ibram Lassaw, a group of colorful glazed ceramic forms by Keiko Narahashi, and monumental ceramic sculpture by Sana Musasama.
Thomas Sills, Nilotic Waters, 1960
A range of surfaces, textures, shapes, and scales are also present in the work on view. A rust orange canvas by Pat Lipsky ("Turning 1," 1968) depicts wave forms informed by her experimentation with plotting logarithmic progressions. On view are a group of gentle stripe paintings by Pete Jennerjahn, a Black Mountain College faculty member who worked closely with color theorist Josef Albers. These clean repetitions are juxtaposed with a free-form work by Joe Overstreet: a diamond-shaped canvas stretched loosely over wood dowels with poured and collaged paint. Technical experimentations of all forms are present. An unstretched, raw linen work from Nina Yankowitz’s "Dilated Grain Reading series" (1973) reflects the artist’s synthesis of sound and color—patterns of paint squeezed directly from plastic bottles reflecting notated musical scores.
FUTURA2000, Korean Barbecue, 2022
The July installation represents an aesthetic conversation across time. Abstract Expressionist painter Pat Passlof is represented by a 1959 canvas as well as a dozen works on paper from the early 2000s. A 2023 ceramic sculpture by Sana Musasama responds to a series that she originally completed in the 1980s. A 2022 large-scale abstract painting by FUTURA2000 includes motifs like his atom-shape and ladder that recur over decades.
SALON
ROTATING EXHIBTIONS, SUMMER 2023
THE GARAGE | ERIC FIRESTONE GALLERY
62 NEWTOWN LANE | EAST HAMPTON, NY
Ibram Lassaw
Ourania, 1980
Mixed metals
37 1/2h x 40w x 51d in
95.25h x 101.60w x 129.54d cm
LAS010
Peter Busa
Beauty and the Beast II, 1949
oil on canvas
54 19/25h x 60w in
139.09h x 152.40w cm
PBUS001
Paul Waters
The Horse with Scares and Balls, 1970
oil on cut linen collage on canvas
70h x 118w in
177.80h x 299.72w cm
PWAT379
Pat Lipsky
Turning I, 1968
acrylic on canvas
61 1/8h x 95 1/2w in
155.26h x 242.57w cm
PLIPS031
Ellsworth Ausby
Ancestral Spirit, 1969
acrylic on canvas
89 1/2h x 41 1/2w in
227.33h x 105.41w cm
EAUS025
FUTURA2000
Korean Barbecue, 2022
acrylic, marker, spray paint, oil on canvas
58 1/2h x 78 1/2w in
148.59h x 199.39w cm
FF152
Jeanne Reynal
Winter Count, 1963
smalti, mother-of-pearl, obsidian and pigmented cement on wood
77h x 40 1/2w in
195.58h x 102.87w cm
JREY004
Nina Yankowitz
Dilated Grain Reading: Scanning Reds and Blues, 1973
extruded acrylic/Flashe paint on linen
50h x 109w in
127h x 276.86w cm
NYAN002
Pete Jennerjahn
Darkened Waters (Some overcast), 1960
oil on masonite
48h x 30w in
121.92h x 76.20w cm
PJENN002
Keiko Narahashi
Color Planes, 2015–2020
glazed ceramic
15h x 40w x 17d in. (present installation)
dimensions variable
KNAR015
Pat Passlof
Untitled, 2003
gouache and acrylic on paper
18h x 24 1/4w in
45.72h x 61.60w cm
PASS329
Pat Passlof
Untitled, 2003
gouache and acrylic on paper
18h x 24 1/4w in
45.72h x 61.59w cm
PASS323
