Guests Will Pay Tribute to
Acclaimed Post-Minimalist Artist
Martin Puryear and
Preservationist H. Peter Stern
of the
Storm King Art Center
On Saturday, July 19, 2008
LongHouse Reserve will host a
Summer Gala on their 16-acre
East Hampton grounds honoring
two distinguished contributors
to the arts, Post-Minimalist
artist
Martin Puryear and
Storm King Art Center Chairman,
President and Co-Founder
H. Peter Stern.
Martin Puryear will receive the
LongHouse Medal of 2008 and H.
Peter Stern will receive the
first LongHouse Art Leadership
Award.
LongHouse is pleased to
highlight Puryear’s work,
following The Modern Museum of
Art’s (MoMA) recent major
exhibition of his sculptures,
which chronicled the evolution
of the acclaimed artist’s
30-year-to-date career.
Puryear’s work celebrates the
Post-Minimalist generation and
his unique influences, which
range from his interest in
Native American history to
Scandinavian woodcarving.
Primarily through wood, Puryear
exemplifies the beauty of manual
skill and traditional building
methods. His fellow honoree, H.
Peter Stern, is a true
“Renaissance individual,” who
has been a great supporter of
countless sculptors through the
Storm King Art Center in the
Hudson Valley, which he
co-founded in 1960. The Center
now features an
internationally-acclaimed
permanent collection of American
and European modern sculpture;
focused on large abstract welded
steel works from the 1960’s to
the present.
“Both Stern and Puryear share
with LongHouse a great
dedication to communicate the
relationship between art and
nature,” said Jack Lenor Larsen,
LongHouse Reserve founder and
renowned textile designer.
“This year’s Gala celebrates
their achievements and applauds
their commitment with the
LongHouse Medal and Art
Leadership Award of 2008.”
More
than 350 guests will attend the
always sold-out gala to
celebrate and support the
LongHouse Reserve tradition of
aesthetic beauty in its most
natural forms. This year’s
theme will focus on organic
beauty, which will translate
into art installations without
bounds, a feast of earthy
American flavors and décor that
stems largely from the
LongHouse’s own natural
resources. Throughout the
evening guests will enjoy wines
from
Kluge Estate and be
introduced to
Vineyard Estates at Kluge Winery
by owners Patricia Kluge and
Bill Moses.
Benefit committee members
who have made the evening
possible include:
Edward Albee (Pulitzer Prize
Winning American Playwrite), Jan
Cowles, Adelaide de Menil, Helen
W. Drutt English, Bill T. Jones,
Mark and Elizabeth Levine,
Dorothy Lichtenstein, David and
Renee McKee, Robert Menschel,
Stephanie Odegard, Cynthia Hazen
Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, and
Robert Wilson.
A notable new art installation
of
Wild Horses of Sable Island
by Roberto Dutesco will dazzle
guests arriving at 6:00 p.m. for
cocktails and a chance to wander
the LongHouse Reserve’s
impressive grounds, which will
also feature permanent works
executed by such artists as
Yoko Ono,
Miquel Barceló and
Dale Chihuly. During
cocktails guests’ interest will
be directed to the LongHouse
pond where
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Company will perform a special
dance.
During dinner Christie’s
auctioneer, George McNelly, will
entice guests with a live
auction featuring many exciting
opportunities to experience art,
including important works
donated by Miguel Barceló, Dale
Chihuly, Martin Puryear, Bryan
Hunt and Toshiko Takaezu.
All proceeds from the Summer
Gala will support the LongHouse
Reserve, whose gallery,
arboretum, sculpture gardens,
and educational programs, unite
art and nature, aesthetics and
spirit. LongHouse strives to
build upon its strong belief
that the arts are central to
living wholly and creatively.
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Auction items can be viewed
online prior to the event,
starting in July at:
http://www.longhouse.org/summer.ihtml
and viewers can bid on certain
items prior to the event by
e-mailing Joanne Sohn at
joanne@longhouse.org.
About LongHouse Reserve
Through its gallery, arboretum,
sculpture gardens and programs,
LongHouse Reserve brings
together art and nature,
aesthetics and spirit, with a
strong conviction that the arts
are central to living wholly and
creatively. LongHouse Reserve is
a not-for-profit museum that
encompasses nearly 16 beautiful
acres in East Hampton, New
York. Each year the LongHouse
Reserve presents major
exhibitions in both the gallery
and the gardens. Currently,
there are more than 60
sculptures for the gardens
including works of glass by Dale
Chihuly, ceramics by Takaezu,
and bronzes by Barceló, Voulkos,
Benglis and de Kooning. Works by
Ossorio, Claus Bury, Yoko Ono,
Opocensky, and Takashi Soga are
also on view, while the
installation of a Fly's Eye Dome
designed by Buckminster Fuller
and a site-specific Sol Lewitt
add interesting scale and
dimension. Open days for members
and the public are 2 to 5 p.m.
Wednesdays and Saturdays, from
April 26 through October 11
(Columbus Day weekend)
July and August - Wednesday
through Saturday 2-5 pm.
www.longhouse.org
Event
Contact:
Joanne Sohn
LongHouse Reserve
133 Hands Creek Road, East
Hampton, NY 11937
(631) 329-3568
joanne@longhouse.org