LongHouse Summer Season Continues Saturday With "White & Black"

The summer season at LongHouse Reserve continues this Saturday, June 29, with the opening of “White & Black”, and exhibition of the sculptural work of Jack Youngerman.

Youngerman, whose first show on the East End was at the Parish Art Museum in 1974, will be in attendance and will give a talk with long-time friend, artist-critic Richard Kalina at 5:30 p.m. Attendance for non members will be $10.

“White & Black” refers to the color schemes of Youngerman’s pieces, all of which are made from molded and shaped fiberglass and represent the period of his work from the mid 1980s.

Later this summer on July 20, the 12th annual White Night benefit will take place. Apart from the usual silent auction, the LongHouse Awards will be presented to three friends of the organization. Architect Richard Meier is being honored this year, and his close friend artist Frank Stella will present his Award. Famed Chinese artist and political dissident, Ai Weiwei will also be honored this year, but cannot leave Beijing because his passport has been revoked. In lieu of his appearance, Alexandra Munroe, the curator of Asian art at the Guggenheim museum will make a presentation and show a video about both the artist and his work.

On a more somber note, this years third award will be award posthumously to Lisa de Kooning, sculptor and daughter of Willem de Kooning. LongHouse’s executive director, Matko Tomicic described her as a “neighbor, friend, supporter and generous soul.” A section of the LongHouse property lawn will be renamed,  de Kooning Place in her honor.

The White Night Benefit also marks the opening of a large installation piece by artist, Alice Aycock— a thirty-five by seventeen foot sheet of white aluminum— that will remain on display through the end of the season. In 2014, however, the same piece will be installed on Park Avenue.

On August 2, the traveling show of Ai Weiwei’s zodiac heads, featuring human sized golden heads of all twelve Chinese zodiac animals will go on display. The same day, the work of Cuban artist Yoan Capote will open to the public. Capote previously exhibited at LongHouse almost eight years ago, but his work’s general theme remains a sense of migration and exile. Among his sculptures going on display, is a series of bronze suitcases and a pair of ten-foot long local trees that have been bronzed and wear sneakers on their roots. The trees themselves will lie next to a pair of recently dug holes.

Accompanying the new work on August 2, will be a performance by the Voxare Quartet, described as a group of “talented, young, good looking people.” 

Apart from these larger events, LongHouse’s weekly summer schedule remains the same. On Mondays at 6 p.m. visitors are invited to enjoy Twilight Walking tours of the grounds. On Saturday’s at 8 a.m. Jim Owen leads Sound Meditation in the gardens. The suggested donation for participants is $18 for LongHouse members and $20 for the general public. The grounds are open to visitors from 2-5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays, currently, but will be open Wednesday through Saturday in July and August. On Open Days, LongHouse members have free admission but non-members must pay $10.