Meet The Authors

Sunday, July 11
noon - 1:30pm

It’s an art book festival, a first in the Hamptons! What a great opportunity to meet, mingle and share stories,  at one time, with many of the most distinguished art writers/artists around today. Each writer/artist is there to meet you and sign their book for you. Books are available for sale- and then immediate signing. Each author will present their vision for the book onstage, briefly, as part of the action.   

D. Frederick Baker with co-author Carolyn Lane & Robin Chase, granddaughter to William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by
William Merritt Chase, Volume IV

This fourth volume in a four-part catalogue raisonne on Chase covers Chase’s paintings of the 1880’s and early 1890’s and reproduces a variety of paintings that together give marvelous insight into his exemplary depiction of light and shadow.

Helen Harrison & Constance Ayers Denne
Hamptons Bohemia An unspoiled coastline bathed in spectacular light- just far enough from the Manhattan bustle- made the Hamptons seductive for generations of creative types. Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, is an entertaining survey of the personalities who found a summer or year-round haven on the southeastern end of Long Island. The story begins with 19th Century figures like James Fenimore Cooper. Then came genteel landscape painters. By the 1950’s the era of Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Frank O’Hara, among others, bohemia was in full swing. Since then the Hamptons have become a clubby getaway for artists who’ve already made it.

Elliott Erwitt
With a touch of humor and an eye for the humane, Elliott Erwitt’s black and white photographs reveal the most basic and candid human emotions. He developed his vision during the post-war rise of documentary photojournalism, and has captured many of life’s most poignant ironies through an amusing vernacular. Born in Paris and raised in California & NY, Erwitt pursued a photographic career in journalism, fashion and print advertisement. He is a member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1953. His photographs are in museums around the world, including MOMA, NY; Smithsonian, Art Institute of Chicago, and Kunsthaus, Zurich.

John Gruen
Facing the Artist: Portraits by John Jonas Gruen June 3-August 8, 2010

John Jonas Gruen has made it his business to be the right place at the right time. During his many years in Manhattan, Gruen- critic, author and keen cultural observer- have moved with ease among dancers, musicians, playwrights and poets. He seems, however, to have reserved a special interest in painters and sculptors. Through the year, Gruen has captured many of them in his photographs. The collection shown here came from an exhibition of his work at The Whitney Museum of Art, organized by Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography.

Marika Herskovic
NY Abstract Expressionism
American Abstract Expressionism

NY Abstract Expressionism provides a complete documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals held initially as the 9th Street Exhibition and continued at the Stable Gallery in NYC from 1951-1957, showing the work of the pioneers of the NY School Abstract Expressionist Artists. American Abstract Expressionism is a follow-up to NY Abstract Expressionism.

Sue Kwon
Street Level

Street Level collects 20 years of documentary and commercial photography by  esteemed New York photographer Sue Kwon. Her subjects include some of Hip Hop’s finest, such as the Beastie Boys, Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as portraits and street scenes from New York’s most charismatic neighborhoods- Little Italy, Chinatown, Coney Island, the Lower East Side and a pre-Guilliani Times Square.

Ellen G. Landau
Jackson Pollock

The role of the art historian as biographer is beset with contradictions, an artist’s life and art being neither mutually exclusive nor synonymous. Balanced in his life on the edge of destruction and in his art on that of innovation, Pollock mirrored a chaotic world, one in which humans seemed to have lost control. This book treats Pollock’s personal life, creative work, and cultural milleu as discrete elements that produce a gradually developing image of Pollock as rebellious cowboy or counterculture loner.

Diane McManus Jensen
The Art of Collecting: An Intimate Tour Inside Private Art Collections with Advice on Starting Your Own

The Art of Collecting reveals private collectors’ discoveries of art and artists, and the often intriguing journey along the way. This book offers readers a rare opportunity to explore twenty-three art collections and provides a glimpse into how they evolved. Featuring lush photography of the collections, and personal interviews with each of the collectors, The Art of Collecting also includes essays on various topics by experts in each of their fields, offering insights into areas such as: lighting, framing, insurance and more. The book serves two purposes: providing readers with a first-hand glimpse into magnificent collections, and inspiring them to embark on their own journey of collecting.

Klaus Ottmann
Fairfield Porter Raw - The Creative Process of An American Master
Rackstraw Downes

Klaus Ottmann is a curator and scholar based in New York, and the author, among other books, of Yves By Himself: His Life and Thought (2010) and The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition (2004). In 2006 he curated the SITE Santa Fe International Biennial. Ottmann is here today to sign Fairfield Porter Raw - The Creative Process of An American Master and Rackstraw Downes.

Dan Rattiner
In the Hamptons Too

As the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s popular free newspaper, Dan Rattiner has been living in and covering the Hamptons for over fifty years, and has watched it change from sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms to a playground for the rich and famous. In this follow-up to his popular book, In the Hamptons, Rattiner continues to regale us with tales of the people who live, work and play in one of America’s best-known summer colonies.

John Torreano
Drawing by Seeing

“Why can’t I draw what I see?” Long-time drawing instructor and celebrated artist John Torreano answers this much-asked question in Drawing by Seeing. In this accessible and visually engaging book, Torreano shares the lessons, based on gestalt theory, that he has used to successfully teach thousands of students to draw accurately and with confidence.

ARTIST SIGNINGS:

Bill Armstrong
Catalogue, Photographs from the Infinity Series

The Infinity series is an extensive body of work that photographer Bill Armstrong has been photographing since 1977. It includes a wide range of portfolios, from figurative to abstract, that are made using Bill’s unique process of photographing found images of extremely out of focus with the camera’s focusing ring set at infinity.

Hal Buckner
Buckner

Hal Buckner is an innovative and versatile artist who is trained in both sculpture and painting. His current studio work is rooted in line drawing fundamentals and the female figure. The influence of water in the artist’s life is reflected in much of his work. Buckner will talk about his work and sign his autobiographical book chronicling his life and art.

John ‘Crash’ Matos
Catalogue

Born in 1961 in New York City, a true pioneer of the Graffiti art movement, John ‘Crash’ Matos’s work was discovered in a most unconventional way, through the murals he spray painted on subway cars, basketball courts and on the walls of buildings in dilapidated neighborhoods.

Luc Leestemaker
The Intentional Artist: Stories From My Life

The Intentional Artist is a compilation of stories and visual impressions by someone who has lived an unconventional artist’s life. Luc Leestemaker has minced his extensive and varied background in art, theater and the corporate world to create these autobiographical stories, out of which a thread emerges that offers inspired reading for anyone seeking to find or renew their creative way. Luc is represented by Madison Gallery at ArtHamptons.

Susan Wides
Art & Entertainment

In Susan Wides’ show, “Art & Entertainment,’ a dialogue has been created on the city’s use and cultural designation of space. Within this new work, Wides builds upon over ten years of exploring New York City and its environs through the facets of shift/tilt techniques. Wides’ lens investigates spaces of the public and privileged with disorienting perspectives that capture recognizable institutions in photographs that emphasize both the city’s hurried lifestyle and moments of quiet.

Hans Van de Bovenkamp
Hans Van de Bovenkamp

Hans Van de Bovenkamp s an architectural designer and a sculptor. He has earned an international reputation over the past 40 years for designing, fabricating, installing and maintaining, unique sculptures and fountains in collaboration with architects and designers. His works can be seen in public, civic, corporate and private collections.