The Opening Of ‘Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades’ At The Parrish Art Museum

Marking the launch of a new partnership, the Parrish Art Museum and The FLAG Art Foundation presented the opening of “Ellsworth Kelly: Eight Decades,” a focused survey spanning more than 80 years of the artist’s work on March 14. The exhibition will run through June 14.

Comprising roughly twenty works created between the 1940s and the 2010s, the exhibition includes key examples of Kelly’s mature minimalist work alongside early paintings, plant drawings, and photographs made near the Parrish Art Museum on the East End. The selection reveals the emergence of recurring motifs across mediums, underscoring Kelly’s sustained engagement with flattening form, negative space, and color reduced to its most elemental state.