As one of America’s most influential and celebrated photographers, Bert Stern was known for his iconic portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Kate Moss, Brigitte Bardot, Marlon Brando and Ray Charles and many others. During his 50-year-career, he created countless award-winning ads, editorial features, magazine covers, films, and portraits — Read More

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor opens two shows, one featuring the work of photographer Bert Stern and the other highlighting the ceramics of Hilary Helfant.

Bert Stern became one of the most sought-after fashion, advertising and art photographers. His work was widely exhibited, and notable featured showings include “I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and “The Last Sitting” at Musee Maillol in Paris.
Hilary Helfant, based on the East End, is a ceramic artist and geometric abstractionist. She explores patterns and layers in natural forms. Her pieces don’t replicate nature but develop organically on their own. Using a sphere shape as a starting point, she makes sculpture that one doesn’t just look at, but looks into. Read More

Keyes Art & AB NY Gallery Present ‘The Big Tent’

Keyes Art and AB NY Gallery present “The Big Tent,” a group show of eight artists who make larger-scale work essential to their studio practice. The show will open on January 28, with a reception from 5 to 7 PM at AB NY in East Hampton — Read More

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor Presents Halsted Welles

Keyes Art in Sag Harbor presents an exhibition of photographs and videos by Halsted Welles, including garden portraits, long-form time-lapse videos, and triptychs with digital stills of gardens built and maintained by Halsted Welles Associates, over the last 40 years. Halsted Welles works at the intersection of natural and built systems, integrating art, design, and horticulture with the belief that a watershed consciousness is the fabric of social discourse.The show runs through February 9 — Read More

Actor, studio executive and artist Ted Hartley unveiled his newest exhibition, Stories in Color, at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor on Saturday, October 22.

The show features more than 20 of Hartley’s works, including his Ukraine Series, with proceeds benefiting the Olena Zelenska Foundation, a newly formed charity founded by the First Lady of Ukraine that provides medicine, education, and humanitarian aid. 

The opening celebration included a party where Keyes Art Gallery welcomed more than 50 notable art lovers, industry professionals and media influencers. Among the guests were artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl; art collectors E.T. and Lyn Williams; Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Parrish Art Museum; Carrie Rebora Barratt, interim director of LongHouse Reserve et al; Read Article Here

Nela Arias-Misson’s ‘Faith’ Comes to Keyes Art in Sag Harbor

Just in time for HarborFest weekend, Keyes Art in Sag Harbor will unveil a new solo exhibition featuring the work of late Cuban-born painter Nela Arias-Misson. The show, titled Faith, debuts with an opening reception on Saturday, September 10, 5–7 p.m., and will remain on view through October 23.

“It is probably our most exciting thing we’ve ever done. … No one has shown her work before,” says Julie Keyes, the gallery’s owner and namesake. “This is a major gallery endeavor in our little suburb of Sag Harbor.”
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Spotlight: An Exhibition at Keyes Art Revives the Work of Abstract Expressionist Painter Nela Arias-Misson

"Nela Arias-Misson: Faith" is on view in Sag Harbor through December 23, 2022.

ARNET - Why We Like It: The exhibition “Nela Arias-Misson: Faith,” presented by Keyes Art, is a welcome opportunity to reevaluate the artist’s standing, given that women’s contributions were often overlooked during that period. The influence of Hofmann and AbEx as well as later developments in painting are evident in works like Untitled (1961), which achieves the flattened sense of space typical of Hofmann, but adds gestural paintwork and a distinctive color palette. Organized by painter George Negroponte, the show brings together an exemplary selection of Arias-Misson’s work illustrating the progress and achievements that she realized both on a personal artistic level, as well as within the development of abstraction in the 20th century.

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New art exhibit in Greenport explores untold
queer stories of the North Fork

A new art exhibit in Greenport seeks to tell an exuberant, untold piece of local history through illustration.“Fashion: A Hidden History” is now on display at the Natali/Keyes gallery on Main Street and will be shown through Aug. 15.The collection features drawings and collages by Jerry Schofield, a fashion illustrator and artist who was commissioned by iconic brands and designers including Lord and Taylor and Henri Bendel, where he met his partner, Frank McIntosh.The two lived in a majestic captain’s 17th-century mansion along Main Road in Greenport, according to acclaimed art historian and curator Alison Gingeras, who organized the exhibit at the Greenport gallery.“At first glance, without knowing all of the history, it looks like contemporary art,” Gingeras said in a recent interview at the gallery, where the walls were recently painted bright pink. “They look like the work of Karen Kilimnick or other painters I’ve worked with before who quote this style. There’s this campy citation in the work.”The evocative ink drawings, collages and gouache paintings are a peek into Schofield’s influence on the fashion world, but also a glimpse at the hidden history of artists obscured by the homophobia of their era.

Ted Hartley and Keyes Art offer this painting ‘KYIV, Pro Patria,’ for purchase, with all the profit going to help the people of Ukraine stand up against Russia’s brutal invasion.
The artist has committed the full purchase price of this painting to three Ukrainian relief agencies. The bids are open at Keyes Gallery.

Supporting-
Spirit of America (Ukraine), Red Cross Intl (Ukraine), Come Back Alive (Ukraine)

To Purchase or Inquire - Call Keyes Gallery, Sag Harbor 631-808-3588

The final iteration of the multi-site exhibition “Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Future by Honoring Now” will open Saturday at Keyes Art in Sag Harbor with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Organized by Eden Williams and Julie Keyes, it will feature work by Thornton Dial, Erika Ranee, and Leslee Stradford.
Dial, who died in 2016, was a self-taught artist whose dense wall reliefs and sculptures made from found materials told the story of Black struggle in the South. 
Of her paintings, Ms. Ranee has said, “I take cues from the cacophony of city streets, its sounds and smells, as well as from minutiae of the natural world, and pull it all together in an intuitive visual freestyle.” 
Dr. Stradford’s art engages with social, cultural, and historical issues, as exemplified by her series “The Night Tulsa Died: The Black Wall Street Massacre, 1921.”
The exhibition will run through March 31.
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~Mark Segal for East Hampton Star, March 3, 2022

Exploring Afrofuturism: Black Artists Featured In 4 Shows Across The East End

With February on the horizon and Black History Month soon to begin, exhibitions and cultural programs abound that pay tribute to the many contributions African Americans have made to the country and society at large. 
But in designing a Black History Month exhibition for the East End, gallery owner Julie Keyes, who counts many African American collectors among her clients, looked to do something a bit more expansive, creative and thought-provoking to highlight the work of Black artists in light of social justice movements that have gained traction in recent years.
So Keyes joined forces with Eden Williams, daughter of Sag Harbor residents and avid art collectors E.T. and Lyn Williams, to curate a series of four shows across the region offering a cross-section of work by some of the most dynamic African American artists working on the scene today.
As Williams notes, the goal of the Afrofuturism exhibitions is to honor abstract Black painters who have broken out of the mold and have removed the heavy race-themed narrative of politics and struggle from their work in order to paint about life in abstraction. 
“We can reimagine a world in the future where more and more Black painters are not bound to race narratives and the burden of representing one element of the ‘Black experience’ in order to be seen and heard,” Williams noted.

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‘Keyes Art Presents “AFROFUTURISM,” a show that reimagines the future by honoring now, a multi-site exhibit curated by Julie Keyes and Eden Williams. This exhibit will be in 4 parts in 4 different venues.
The first exhibition will open on Saturday, January 29, from 4:30 to 6 PM, at the newly-founded Natali/Keyes Gallery in Greenport. Featured artists include Claude Lawrence, Erika Renee, Faith Ringgold, and Clintel Steed. The show will run through March 31.’
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Keyes Art presents Eyewitness, an exhibition meant to confirm that Modernism is alive and well. The artworks in this show are immersed in a visual and pictorial language, aspiring to convey a sense of meaning and purpose, and to ignore the posturing of the zeitgeist of the 1960s. 

It’s an essential question that artist and educator Dr. Leslee Howes Stradford poses when speaking about her work: “If you’ve been lied to about your history, or it’s never been taught at all, how are you supposed to know it?”
That is the underlying premise that informs one project in particular that she started working on more than a decade ago.
“The Night Tulsa Died: The Black Wall Street Massacre of 1921” is a series of digital collages, on silk, that tell the story of the Tulsa Massacre, the 100th anniversary of which falls on May 30.

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