Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
May 2 - July 18, 2021

A freewheeling look at the work of 42 artists who have called the Hamptons home for a week, a season, or a lifetime. Organized by the Museum’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., the exhibition tells the sweeping story of artists with ties to the region who have expanded and exploited the language of abstraction. With works drawn from the Parrish collection augmented by key loans, Affinities for Abstraction is a nuanced history of both the period and the waves of artists who have come to Long Island’s East End—a place that continues to offer proximity, camaraderie, and leisure combined with great natural beauty.

Paintings by Lee Krasner, Pat Steir, and Hedda Sterne installed at the Parrish Museum