DETOUR VII
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 13 | 4PM-7PM
DETOUR VII: Curated by Kevin Teare & Mary Boochever
Dates: June 13 – August 22, 2026
Two Galleries: 48 W. Main St. & 11 W. Main St. Riverhead
Gallery Hours: Thursday – 12-5pm • Friday – 2-6pm • Saturday – 12-5pm • Sunday – 11am-3pm or by appointment
Contact: gallery@eastendarts.org | 631.727.0900
Take a DETOUR to the nexus of the two forks to EEAC’s annual summer art exhibition. Each year DETOUR showcases a variety of often nationally and internationally recognized artists and their divergent mediums, techniques, and voices to the East End. The curation strives to bring a museum-quality cohesion of work into a premier gallery format, and the exhibition is filled with gallery programming, including artist panels and curator-led tours, throughout its run. Visitation to the galleries is free and open to the public, and a portion of art sales benefits East End Arts Council.
ANDY TARSHIS FINE ART GALLERY [48 W. MAIN ST]
OPEN FOR THE STONES 3
Curated by Kevin Teare
The historical connection between visual art and music is inescapable. From Stuart Davis’ Swing Landscape and Henri Matisse’s Jazz Series cut-outs to Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie, painters, sculptors and photographers have all paid homage to music.
In grade school it is common for young students to be asked to paint, be it finger painting or watercolors to an accompanying soundtrack of classical music. The correlation between musical tones and color is a natural relationship and was utilized by such greats as Vassily Kandinsky, Hilma Af Klint, Mark Rothko and Larry Poons.
Conversely, many musicians started as visual artists and moved their primary discipline to music. When looking at the British Invasion bands of the mid-1960’s, a great number came to music straight from art school. Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon and Peter Quaife are good examples of this. In the 1970’s, bands such as Talking Heads did as well, with the three original members all meeting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
There exists a third group of artists who employ music as an aspect of their overall visual oeuvre. Laurie Anderson, Banks Violette, Christian Marclay, Jeremey Deller and Julia Heyward to name a few.
Open For The Stones intends to use both local artists as well as those with national and international standing to explore these symbiotic relationships. The exhibition is comprised of paintings, photography, sculpture and installations. Another aspect of the exhibition is merchandise comprised of vinyl LPs and CDs of work released by the exhibiting artists.
This is the third volume of an exhibition that premiered at Keyes Projects NYC in 2011 and moved in 2012 to Harpers in East Hampton as an expanded installation. Open For The Stones 3 features work by twenty-five artists including Graham Dolphin, Marnie Weber, Julia Heyward, Clay Ketter, Daniel Johnston, Ron Asheton, Stuart Sutcliffe, Alan Vega and others.
This exhibition is dedicated to musician and artist Bobby Whitlock. 1948-2025
ABOUT KEVIN TEARE
Kevin Teare was born in Indiana and moved to New York City in 1976. He has had exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Award in painting as well as a Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Teare was a founding member of the Hyper-Realism band MX 80 Sound. He lives full-time in Sag Harbor, N.Y. where he maintains a painting studio.
11 WEST GALLERY AT PECONIC CROSSING [11 W. MAIN ST]
THE VALUE OF NOTHING
Curated by Mary Boochever
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Bringing together diverse interpretations of the terms value and nothing, this exhibition explores the possibilities inherent in this well-known Oscar Wilde quotation.
From the nothingness (Śūnyatā) of Buddhism to Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades”to the folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” the works in this exhibition approach the object in ways that question a preconceived outcome. Extrinsic and intrinsic value meet the essence of the object, forming the underpinning of the art on display.
ABOUT MARY BOOCHEVER
In developing her own color language, Mary Boochever has explored sources as diverse as the Kabala and Goethe’s Color Theory.
Boochever’s paintings, sculptures and installations draw the viewer into the immediacy of the color experience.
Born into a Washington, D.C. Foreign Service family in 1954, she later studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany, under Mac Zimmerman, Günther Fruhtrunk and Paul Meyer-Speer.
Relocating to New York City in 1978, she taught at School of Visual Arts and guest-lectured at Yale University.
After moving to Long Island in 1993 she taught at Suffolk Community College in Riverhead and Lacoste School of the Arts in France.
The artist has shown extensively in galleries and museums in the U.S. and Europe.
She currently lives and works in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
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