Each week James Lane Post will highlight a different spot to explore outdoors on the East End in our series “A Walk Outside.” This week: The Parrish Art Museum’s “Field of Dreams” exhibit
“Field of Dreams,” is the Parrish Art Museum’s inaugural sculpture exhibition, located in the meadow on the grounds of the museum in Water Mill.
The show presents work by 10 international, multi-generational artists working in a variety of genres, including Theaster Gates, Jaume Plensa, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Joel Perlman, Joel Shapiro, Max Ernst, Bernar Venet, Isa Genzken, and Giuseppe Penone.
The space is also home to “Bonac Blind,” an interpretation of duck blinds used for camouflage by local hunters by 2020 Parrish Road Show artist Scott Bluedorn, who describes the piece as “a floating, off-grid micro-home that references traditional Bonac culture of fishing, farming, and hunting while also serving as a comment on the erosion of this culture due to the compound problems of housing crisis, climate change, and modernity.”
While the Parrish’s indoor exhibitions are currently closed until spring, the outdoor sculpture exhibition is open and free to the public daily, from 11 AM to 5 PM.
On Friday, January 22, the museum will offer a socially-distanced “Field of Dreams” walking tour led by Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman chief curator, and Parrish Art Museum docents. Bluedorn will also be onsite to give tours of “Bonac Blind.”
Guests will be separated into small groups for the tours, and masks are required. Space is limited and advance tickets are required.
“I’m pleased that we continue to offer plein air tours in the meadow for our audiences to learn firsthand about the artworks in Field of Dreams and their creators,” said Corinne Erni, the museum’s senior curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects.
Tickets are $10, and free for members, students, and children, and the tour takes place from 3 to 4:30 PM. Visit www.parrishart.org for more info.
