Mark Seidenfeld Sets Sail Into ‘Uncharted Waters’ With New Art Exhibition At The Bridgehampton Museum

The Bridgehampton Museum presents “Uncharted Waters,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Mark Seidenfeld, on view through June 21. The exhibition inaugurates The Bridgehampton Museum’s Corwith Homestead Tractor Barn located at 2368 Montauk Highway, a newly renovated, contemporary exhibition space blended into the historic William A. Corwith Homestead campus. An opening reception was held on June 4.

Seidenfeld’s paintings evolve from earlier representational work into fully realized abstraction, where landscape gives way to interior vision. These are not depictions, but constructed fields, dreamscapes shaped through layering, interruption, and revision.

Each work engages what the artist identifies as the Unknown: a condition that resists repetition and continuously shifts. What is resolved in one painting becomes insufficient in the next. The work advances through this instability, with each painting extending, rather than reiterating, the last.

A consistent pursuit of depth underlies the practice. Surface is built, disrupted, and recalibrated, producing compositions that hold tension without closure. Installed within the scale and structure of the barn, the paintings activate the space as a field of perception.

“Uncharted Waters” establishes both the inaugural program of the Corwith Homestead Tractor Barn and a concentrated statement of Seidenfeld’s ongoing investigation into abstraction.