Long Island Community Arts Calendar
January 2022
Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Moonstruck: Lunar Art from the Collection
Moonstruck: Lunar Art from the Collection, on view January 20 to September 18, 2022, is drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, The exhibition features a broad range of artwork inspired by the moon and moonlight. From the nineteenth century to the present, artists have gravitated to the moon for reasons scientific, mythic, and symbolic. The celestial artworks on view explore our enduring fascination with the moon in all its phases.
Find out more »Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Richard Mayhew: Reinventing Landscape
Richard Mayhew: Reinventing Landscape, on view January 20 to April 24, 2022, explores how the nationally renowned artist re-imagined nineteenth and twentieth-century American landscape to express his perspective on nature and the environment as an artist of African American and Native American descent. Born in Amityville, Long Island, the artist’s subjects suggest the appearance of natural forms, but they are symbolic of his emotional interpretation. Conceiving of his paintings as “mindscapes,” Mayhew intuitively uses evocative color and diffused form to…
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