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Soil and Spirit

A Reading by Scott Chaskey

Sunday, August 11 at 4 pm

East Hampton – We are thrilled to have Scott Chaskey read from his recent book, “Soil and Spirit, Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life,” on Sunday, August 11, at 4 pm. Scott will also share stories of Connie and William, their lives, love, and art.

As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities. Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective – as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall’s ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in new Mexico, where he joins a group on Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech. “Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic” – words that describe in his prose as well as his vision of connectedness – Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration.

The Collection is free and open to the public from 1 pm to 4 pm every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday, and at other times by appointment. Donations to the Judith and Gerson Leiber Foundation are welcomed.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs.

For more information, Please email info@leibercollection.org

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Six Artists In The Garden ~ Artist Talks

Saturday, July 27 at 4pm

East Hampton—The Leiber Collection, located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, is thrilled to announce the first event in our series celebrating the artists in our current Garden of Friends Exhibition. Join us for an afternoon of inspiring artist talks in the Leiber Sculpture Garden.

Enjoy an afternoon of Art in the Garden as Perry Burns, Philippe Cheng, Jennifer Cross, Donna Green, Bastienne Schmidt, and Amy Wickersham discuss their extraordinary new works on view in The Leiber Collection’s current Garden of Friends Exhibition.

Tickets are by donation.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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Puppets and Purses

Three Puppet Making workshops

With Master Puppeteer Liz Joyce and the Goat on a Boat Puppet Truck!

Sundays, July 28, August 4, and August 11, 1:30 pm

East Hampton – The Leiber Collection, located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, is excited to announce ‘Puppets and Purses’ – Goat On A Boat Puppet Theatre at The Leiber Collection!

Join us for three super fun puppet-making workshops with Liz Joyce and the Goat on a Boat Puppet Truck on Sundays, July 28, August 4, and August 11, at 1:30 p.m.

Be inspired by Judith Leiber’s dazzling designs and create Simple Marionettes, Ball-and-Stick Puppets, or Shadow Puppets, all outside in the beautiful Leiber Sculpture Garden with Liz Joyce and The Goat on A Boat Puppet Truck! Fun for the whole family!

The workshops are free. Registration is required. Donations to the Leiber Foundation are welcomed.

Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre is a not-for-profit touring company committed to inspiring creativity in young audiences through the art of puppetry. They offer a variety of puppet shows and workshops for young children and their families on the East End of Long Island, NY. They create, produce, and present live puppet shows and creative workshops and work to serve and collaborate with diverse audiences, artists, and community partners.

We are thrilled to welcome Liz Joyce and Goat On A Boat to The Leiber Collection for these exciting, creative, and enriching workshops!

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree

A Reading by Megan Chaskey

Sunday, July 28 at 4pm

East Hampton – The Leiber Collection, located at 446 Old Stone Highway, in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, is thrilled to present a reading with Megan Chaskey, in the garden.

Megan’s beautiful book, Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree, Collected Poems, A Book of Hours in the Life of a Poet, combines a lifetime of poems, journal entries, and memoir that “traces the development of her poet’s sensibility and voice grounded in her experience growing up in an artistic family in the various places she has lived including New Mexico, Vermont, and Cornwall, England to the East End of Long Island.” Its cover showcases a painting by her mom, Connie Fox. She also pays tribute to her stepfather, William King, who inspired several of her poems. “Bill King was such a warm supporter of my poetry,” Chaskey explained, “and the inspiration for this book from the beginning.”

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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Connie Fox and William King ~ Entangled

Saturday, July 20 – Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Opening Celebration, Artist Talk and Film Screening with Levin Chaskey – Saturday, July 20 at 4 pm

Poetry Reading and Book Signing with Megan Chaskey – Sunday, July 28 at 4 pm

Book Talk and Signing with Scott Chaskey – Sunday, August 11 at 4 pm

East Hampton – The Leiber Collection, at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, is excited to present ‘Connie Fox and William King ~ Entangled’, featuring paintings from Connie Fox’s iconic Sammy’s Beach Series, and William King’s delightful Sammy’s Beach inspired sculptures.

William King and Connie Fox were friends of Judith and Gerson Leiber, and King’s Four Philosophers have held court in the Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden for the past 20 years. This exhibition series is a celebration of the extraordinary artists in the Leibers’ Permanent Collection, and I am thrilled to kick if off with William King and Connie Fox!

I am extremely honored to have this opportunity to work on this exhibition with Levin Chaskey, Connie and Bill’s grandson. When I first considered a Fox and King show, I wanted it to be about place, and about the exciting multi-generational creativity that I see in their family and on the East End, with younger generations sharing and protecting the legacies of the great artists that came before.

Levin jumped in full force, suggested Connie’s Sammy’s Beach series, and has taught me so much about his grandparents and their extraordinary lives. I am beyond grateful for our partnership that enabled this exhibition come to life.

I admire how Connie and Bill inspired their family of multi-generational creative minds, and inspired the East End Community, their extended artistic family, by what Levin calls their “intertwined worlds of art, nature and familial heritage.”

From Levin: “The significant art world legacies of Connie Fox & William King share the spirit of love, support & lasting impact that Judith & Gerson Leiber represent.

The Entangled exhibition at Leiber Collection Museum and Sculpture Garden will feature Connie’s transcendent “Sammy’s Beach Series” paintings and Bill’s distinctive, humanized sculpture.

We explore how the artist couple was influenced by their home & workplace on the East End of Long Island, through the visceral connection with their natural environment, and support of the vibrant creative community that surrounded their studio sanctuary in Northwest Woods.

Through my work (as co-founder of video production, marketing & brand strategy agency The Star Room) a new short film will accompany the exhibition, pieced from archival video collected over the years.” ~Levin Chaskey

Connie Fox, an abstract painter, and William King, a figurative sculptor, created this sensational body of work inspirited by their shared experiences on Sammy’s Beach, the shoreline of a special tidal bay close to their home and studios in the Northwest Woods area of East Hampton, NY. They went to Sammy’s almost every day for decades; swimming, walking, talking, exploring, socializing, relaxing, contemplating, ruminating, meditating…finding their bliss. The impact of ‘place’ on Connie and Bill is undeniable in this body of work.

“Place, or memory of place, is important to me. I’ve moved around a lot and I bring these places with me…They remain not as images, but as support.” ~Connie Fox

We live in a unique place here on the East End of Long Island, many of us drawn by the magical light quality and the sublime beauty of the natural environment – all of us connected to one another, and connected to those who came before us, by this place.

Connie Fox and William King ~ Entangled is an homage to this land and sea. An homage to Sammy’s Beach and by association all of our beloved beaches, bays and

the unique natural gifts that surround us. We are all entangled with this place, this mesmerizing habitat, with each other, and with those who came before us.

“The most significant thing I did at Sammy’s was to just be there. I walked, sat, looked. Most importantly, I swam. Why is this so important? Hard to say, but it has to do with getting “carried away” by physical energy that gives me back more than I put into it. It

took thirty years of going (there) to want to do a series of paintings with reference to Sammy’s Beach – not to paint what I saw vis-à-vis the landscape.” ~Connie Fox

From Connie Fox – Reckoning with Triangles, In Women’s Art Journal, 2013, by Joyce Beckenstein.

Connie Fox’s Sammy’s Beach paintings are a passionate endeavor to capture the essence and energy of Sammy’s; those persistent impressions that form her memories and dreams, the vibrations, the moods, the atmosphere, the vibe.

“The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.” ~Marcel Proust

It is through Fox’s memories of her experiences on Sammy’s Beach, melding with our memories of our own beach escapades, that we recognize not illustrations of sites we might have seen, but feelings, thoughts, memories, dreams, tastes and smells we recognize and respond to. Surging tides, the warmth of the sun on our skin, the howling breeze, the pungent smell, the salty, seaweedy taste, the hypnotic sounds, the freedom, and the frenetic energy of the phenomena that make up our shared remembrances. There is something of Connie’s soul that comes across in her mark-making that is captivating and poetic.

Connie Fox and William King never compromised on their own unwavering vision of the world. With artistic movements that were all the rage throughout their lives, it would have been easy to dive into the mainstream, but they each held fast to their unique artistic voice. And even though they lived their lives, and worked in their studios, side by side, they did not sway each other’s unique artistic voice.

Author Joyce Beckenstein writes “Fox and King’s stylistic differences consistently bow to one another. The figurative elements she embeds within her energized brushwork attest to her own grip on representation. King’s proportions, simplicity of line, and play of negative and positive space affirm his keen eye for the abstract structure of things as underpinnings to character.”

On view in this exhibition are touching works by William King made to honor Connie Fox and their time on Sammy’s Beach; Connie (1984), a piece that King lovingly carved of Connie in her swimsuit perhaps on her beloved Sammy’s Beach, Jolies Fleurs(2007), a piece inspired by a photo taken of Connie and Bill, possibly by Elaine De Kooning who was with them at Sammy’s at the time the photo was taken, and an endearing, carved balsa and polychrome diorama of Sammy’s Beach (2013), complete with sun, clouds, beach plum bushes and their silver Volvo.

Premier Art-critic, Hilton Kramer writes “The sculpture of William King is a sculpture of comic gesture. It is sculpture that choreographs a scenario of sociability, of conscious affections and unavowed pretensions, transforming the world of observed manners and unacknowledged motives into mimelike structures of comic revelation. Often very funny, sometimes acerbic, frequently satiric and touching at the same time, it is sculpture that draws from the vast repertory of socialized human gesture a very personal vocabulary of contemporary sculptural forms…” ~ The Age of the Avant-Garde: An Art Chronicle of 1956 – 1972, Hilton Kramer.

William King’s Lifeguard watches over the exhibition with the focus and skill of one who is tasked to keep safe all in their orbit. With its long lanky physique, one wonders if this is in fact Bill King faithfully watching over his family and friends.

Lifeguard shows exactly why William King’s work is so special. His keen ability to portray with perfection the spirit and soul of his subject is wondrous. His brilliant skill in capturing the quirkiness of the human condition, is mesmerizing. He is a master at conveying the essence of his subject, through posture, gesture and body language. His sharp observation breathes a breath of humor and even empathy into all of his works.

You are invited to our Opening Celebration on Saturday, July 20 at 4pm where Levin Chaskey will discuss the captivating lives and Art of Connie Fox and William King, and where he will screen a new film that he has created about these extraordinary Artists.

I am so very grateful to Megan and Scott Chaskey, two creative powerhouses and huge figures in the East End community, for their assistance, and for our many hours of conversations about William and Connie. Their experiences and memories have been invaluable to the exhibition. Their suggestion to include the enchanting William King

pieces inspired by Sammy’s Beach, and their loan of these pieces to our show is a curator’s dream!!

Please join us on Sunday, July 28 as Megan reads from her beautiful book of poetry, “Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree, Collected Poems, A Book of Hours in the Life of a Poet”, featuring a painting by her mother Connie Fox on the cover, and highlighting her life growing up in this extraordinarily creative family.

We are also thrilled to have Scott Chaskey read from his recent book, “Soil and Spirit, Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life” on Sunday, August 11 at 4pm.

Megan and Scott will both be sharing stories of Connie and William, their life, love and art.

I would like to thank Levin Chaskey, Megan Chaskey and Scott Chaskey for sharing their stories of Connie and William, and for loaning works from their personal collections for the exhibition. We also thank April Gornik and Eric Fischl for loaning Sammy’s Beach III, and Guild Hall for loaning “Swimmer”, both important key works that make this exhibition complete. Thank you as well to Genie Henderson, longtime archivist at LTV, for her historical knowledge and assistance!

Connie Fox (1925-2023)

Born, 1925, and bred, in Fowler, Colorado, a small farming community surrounded by flat, wide prairies and a distant view of the Rockies, Connie Fox pursued her BFA in 1947 at Un. of CO, and afterwards attended Art Center School, LA for a rigorous program of drawing, perspective, rendering, and composition. She received her MA at the Un. of NM, Albuquerque in 1952, where she then taught and met artists Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989) and Robert Dash (1931-2013).

Connie’s work was shown in the 1950s through the 1970s in Albuquerque, San Francisco, the Richmond Museum of Art, and in Manhattan at the “Tenth Street” type Camino Gallery, FAR, and later at Ingber Gallery and Brenda Taylor Gallery.

Connie’s works are included in the collections of many major museums across the country, including the Brooklyn Museum; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall, as well as National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Her Sammy’s Beach series, painted between 2007-2014, formed the body of work in her most recent solo exhibitions with Danese/Corey Gallery, NY and the Heckscher Museum.

Fox’s paintings can be set in context with, but were also freed by Abstraction, yet she defies the Abstract Expressionist tag, old or new, and has been described as a “modern classicist” whose paint gestures and compositional elements are part of a “comprehensive formal vocabulary.” She herself spoke of her affinity with the European Surrealists, not just in art, but also in the use of visual imagery as in the avant-garde films of Cocteau and Fellini, to which she was exposed as a student at the Art Center School in LA.

Having started her family in New Mexico and Berkeley, California, she went east as far as Pittsburgh in the 1970’s and then, on the encouragement of Elaine de Kooning, she arrived in East Hampton, NY in 1979. A foray into larger and larger paintings spanned the 80’s and 90’s and into the first ten years of the 21st century, once she built her new studio not far from Elaine’s home and studio, and Sammy’s Beach. Throughout these decades Fox progressively created her own artistic identity as a painter. “I can relate anything to anything,” she said, in relation to her use of composition, texture, and surreal images. “I’m more interested in what things do than what they are,” said Fox.

Amei Wallach wrote, Fox was “a super collider of painting…[who] accelerates particles of line, shape, dimension, improbable hue…into emanations of energy. The integrity and sheer exuberance of her life in art is exemplary and it is rare.”

Connie Fox and her husband, sculptor William King (fellow inductee into the HFAF 2024 Hall of Fame), made their home together and worked in the studios they built in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods through the last 40 years of Fox’s life.

William King (1925 – 2015)

William King was a pivotal figure in American sculpture. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925, he grew up in Coconut Grove, Miami. He arrived in New York in 1945, enrolled in Cooper Union, and upon graduation in 1948, won a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Maine. He traveled to Rome on a Fulbright scholarship, and later to Athens, and to London. His first solo show was at the Alan Gallery, in New York, 1954, and he continued to show his work, both at home and abroad, for the next 60 years. King’s art is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn, the Whitney, the Met, among many others, and his public commissions are placed in 18 locations throughout the U.S. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he also served as president of the Academy of Design, 1994-98. He received Lifetime Achievement Awards from Guild Hall in 1997, and from the International Sculpture Center, 2007. He lived with his wife, Connie Fox (2024 Hall of Fame inductee), in the Northwest Woods for 33 years. Hilton Kramer wrote: “The sculpture of William King is a sculpture of comic gesture.” He appeared in three of the now famous Stable shows (1955-57).

Levin Chaskey

“Manifested by our cyclicality across generations, Connie entrusted me to steward her legacy, and to share it. This presented the honor to shine a light on her lifetime of essential and under-appreciated artwork, centered in the Ab-Ex movement with surrealist influences and figurative threads. Connie’s request carried with it both her notable historical past, as well as the path to the future, the responsibility to create new chapters of our story. As I navigate my deep sense of purpose to further her artistic recognition, I feel her guidance and presence daily. Throughout my entire life I have felt profoundly proud of, inspired by and connected with Connie. As illustrated through Connie’s ‘Self as…Levin’ self-portrait that hangs in my office, I believe she felt the same.” ~Levin Chaskey

Megan Chaskey

Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree, Collected Poems, A Book of Hours in the Life of a Poet. The book combines a lifetime of poems, journal entries, and memoir that “traces the development of her poet’s sensibility and voice grounded in her experience growing up in an artistic family in the various places she has lived including New Mexico, Vermont, and Cornwall, England to the East End of Long Island.” Its cover showcases a painting by her mom, Connie Fox. She also pays tribute to her stepfather, William King, who inspired several of her poems. “Bill King was such a warm supporter of my poetry,” Chaskey explained, “and the inspiration for this book from the beginning.”

Scott Chaskey

Soil and Spirit, Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life. As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities. Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective – as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall’s ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in new Mexico, where he joins a group on Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech. “Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic” – words that describe in his prose as well as his vision of connectedness – Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration.

Also on view at The Leiber Collection, ‘Judith and Gerson Leiber ~ Over The Top’ and Our 5^th Annual Garden of Friends Exhibition through November 30, 2024.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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‘The Truth and Beauty Paradox’

Artist Chris Kelly at The Leiber Collection

Exhibition Saturday and Sunday,

June 22 and 23 from 1 – 4pm

Artist Reception and Discussion, Sunday,

June 23 at 4pm

East Hampton, NY – Please join us for an exhibition of Chris Kelly’s paintings and sculptures at The Leiber Collection, Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23 from 1 – 4pm. An Artist Reception and Discussion “The Truth and Beauty Paradox” will take place on Sunday, June 23 at 4pm.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

From Chris Kelly:

“The hidden geometry of nature has been an ongoing source of inspiration for my work, most notably in the form of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence. With this new series of paintings and sculptures I have combined my interpretation of this geometry with my overall philosophy of art.

I believe that art should be, directly or indirectly, about the triumph of beauty and the human spirit. My ultimate goal as an artist is to create artworks that bring beauty into the world.

As I see it, creating art is a metaphor for how to approach living one’s life, both physically and conceptually. I always like to seek out and discover how things are connected, and while I am continually inspired by the geometry of nature, I am going deeper into how it not only connects humanity to the natural world, but how it connects us to each other.

This geometry is integral to who we are, all of us, and how we understand the functioning of the world. It speaks to something elemental and primal that is undeniable once you know how to look for it and how to find it.

Recently, someone asked me what I think about when I’m painting or sculpting. My answer was immediate, and I said “Life and death”. Because for me, even though I strive to create artworks that will hopefully bring joy and inspiration to others, they are grounded in the ever-present duality of the life struggle that all living things on this planet face. Creating something beautiful is a counterpoint to the potential tragedies in life, and I want to inspire others to feel the same way.”

Chris Kelly’s Artist Talk and Discussion will focus on the common thread that runs from the use of the Golden Ratio in art to the ongoing debate about the famous “Beauty is truth” quote by Keats.

Chris will discuss the link between the two, and how they continue to inspire his work and how they can apply to art in general.

What did Keats actually mean? Examples of beautiful works of art that are “untrue” will be part of the discussion, and there will also be examples of artworks based on truth that are not conventionally beautiful.

Come enjoy refreshments, and participate in a discussion of this fascinating topic led by Artist Chris Kelly.

Bring your questions and opinions.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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‘An Accidental Corpse’

Helen Harrison Book Event

Sunday, February 11 at 3 pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to have Helen Harrison join us on Sunday, February 11 at 3 pm, as she discusses ‘An Accidental Corpse’, the second book from her Art of Murder Mysteries Series. We have a limited number of signed books for sale in advance of the event. Come pick one up and read it before Helen’s talk!

On the night of August 11, 1956, in the quiet East Hampton hamlet of The Springs, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree. The accident killed Pollock, the world- renowned abstract painter and notorious alcoholic, and his 25-year-old passenger, Edith Metzger…or did it? Metzger’s autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. Was it murder? This shocking question draws vacationing Detective Juanita Diaz and her husband, Captain Brian Fitzgerald, of the NYPD into a homicide investigation that implicates famous members of East Hampton’s art community, including Pollock himself. Winner of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Fiction: Mystery & Suspense.

“Edifying and juicy.” —Newsday

Helen A. Harrison, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, is the former curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton and Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton. She has also been a guest curator at the Queens Museum in Flushing, has taught at the School of Visual Arts, and currently holds an adjunct faculty position in Stony Brook University’s Department of Art. From 1978-2006, she wrote art reviews and feature articles for the Long Island section of The New York Times, and she was the visual arts commentator for WLIU 88.3 FM, Long Island University’s NPR-affiliated radio station, from 2004- 2009. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly and popular publications, and she’s the author of several books, including, most recently, four mystery novels set in the New York art world.

About the Leiber Collection:

Leiber Collection Founders, famed artful handbag designer Judith Leiber and celebrated modernist artist Gerson Leiber, fell in love with the Hamptons in the early 1950s when they began coming ‘Out East’ as a respite from their busy life in New York City. Drawn by the extraordinary light quality, the quiet atmosphere and the other artistic, intellectual and lively residents, they found Springs to be a fertile environment for their creative endeavors, be it Fashion Design, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture or even Gardening.

The Leiber Collection offers unique insight into the astonishing story of Judith Leiber, a survivor of Hitler’s Europe who came to America and took the fashion accessory industry by storm, breaking taboos right and left, changing fashion history forever. The Collection also chronicles the extraordinary seven-decades-long career of Modernist Artist Gerson Leiber, exhibiting the stunning paintings, etchings, lithographs, and drawings of this highly accomplished and creative artist.

Judith’s handbags have been declared objets d’art by Geoffrey Beene; and in the New York Times, Hilton Kramer, the paper’s former premier art critic, praised Gerson for his mastery and skill of composition and color. Harold Koda, former curator in charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wrote: “…there is a beautiful resonance of aesthetic interests between Judith and Gerson, especially in their mutual love of brilliant color and rigorous structure.”

The Leiber Sculpture Garden that surrounds the museum continues Judith and Gerson’s lifelong commitment to supporting the arts by highlighting sculptors who were their friends and neighbors such as Bill King, Constantino Nivola, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, George Nama, Ronnie Chalif and others, and includes contemporary artists creating some of the most exciting work of today such as Philippe Cheng, Margaret Garrett, Toni Ross, Saskia Friedrich and others.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information see the website at www.leibercollection.org or call 631-329- 3288.

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Sunday, February 4 at 3pm

James Brooks and Charlotte Park

A Talk with Artist Scott Bluedorn

James Brooks and Charlotte Park were a dynamic duo of the early days of abstract expressionism, bringing their unique sensibilities to the burgeoning American movement. They made their home on the east end of Long Island, attracted to the area for its relative isolation and access to nature. Theirs is a fascinating story that combines post-war art, brazen creativity, resilience in the face of adversity, and a legacy that continues today with the establishment of the Brooks-Park Art and Nature Center in Springs. Join Scott Bluedorn, a member of the BPANC committee, in learning about this story and the continuing effort to bring a new art and nature center to fruition!

We will have on view three James Brooks paintings from The Leiber Collection, Charlotte Park’s Notebook, and Scott Bluedorn’s renderings of Brooks’ and Park’s home and studios.

Not to be missed!

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

For more information about the BPANC, click HERE.

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On This Site – Native Long Island

Jeremy Dennis Artist Talk and Book Event

Sunday, December 17 at 3pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is excited to announce an Artist Talk and Book Event with Artist Jeremy Dennis on Sunday, December 17 at 3pm, and that some of his powerful photographs will be on view in one of our museum galleries.

Join us for a captivating afternoon with visual artist Jeremy Dennis as he presents and signs copies of the second edition of his acclaimed book, “On This Site – Native Long Island.” Delve into Long Island’s rich Native history through Dennis’s mesmerizing 2016 photo series, brought to life in this beautifully updated edition. Immerse yourself in the stories of the land and its people through his stunning photography and profound narrative.

Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer, a Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, and lead artist and founder of the non-profit Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc. on the Shinnecock Reservation. His work explores Indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation from the perspective of an Indigenous artist.

From Jeremy:

“My photography explores indigenous identity, cultural assimilation, and the ancestral traditional practices of my tribe, the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Though science has solved many questions about natural phenomena, questions of identity are more abstract, the answers more nuanced. My work is a means of examining my identity and the identity of my community, specifically the unique experience of living on a sovereign Indian reservation and the problems we face.

Despite four hundred years of colonization, we remain anchored to our land by our ancient stories. The indigenous mythology that influences my photography grants me access to the minds of my ancestors, including the value they placed on our sacred lands. By outfitting and arranging models to depict those myths, I strive to continue my ancestors’ tradition of storytelling and showcase the sanctity of our land, elevating its worth beyond a prize for the highest bidder.”

About Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc:

Ma’s House is led by Indigenous artist Jeremy Dennis. The Project began in June 2020 and serves as a communal art space based on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York. The family house, built in the 1960s now features a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artists, a shared art studio, and a communal library, along with hosting an array of art and history-based programs for tribal members and the broader local community. Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information email info@leibercollection.org, or call 631-329-3288.

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‘A Bird Happening’

with Artist Monica Banks

Saturday, December 2 at 3:30pm

Introductions by Ann at this event:

“Monica Banks is a Sculptor who was born in New York City, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. She creates lovely, sweet, conceptual porcelain sculptures of everyday domestic objects such as cakes, pies, cake plates, teacups, or pastries, that upon closer observation have another surprising layer, an underbelly of the repulsive or the grotesque, a twist that one does not fully realize until up close and personal. She contrasts the sweet and the sour, the beautiful and the ugly, the attractive and repellant, expressing tormented emotional realities. Monica’s current works in the Leiber Sculpture Garden and here in this gallery are beautiful, dainty, tea party scenes that entice you to come closer, but upon closer examination, you realize that the tea party is not intended for you, but for the tiny soaring creatures of the garden, our feathered friends, the birds. These pieces are a brilliant collaboration between Artist and Mother Nature.

April Gornik is an American artist who paints American landscapes. Her realist yet dreamlike paintings and drawings embody oppositions and speak to America’s historically conflicted relationship with nature While she doesn’t categorize herself as an environmental artist, she is a passionate supporter of environmental causes and has said, “I have no problem with people reading an ecological message into my work. Her paintings and drawings of land, sky and sea are anchored in observed reality and a world synthesized, abstracted, remembered and imagined. They offer the viewer an opportunity to explore dichotomies between past and present, expanse and its circumscription, intimacy in immensity, stillness and the inexorable momentum of atmospheric change. Her canvases – roiling seas, brewing skies, mountains and endless plains – internalize and engage nature’s proscenium. In these captured moments, the natural world triumphs and the mirror of time stares back.

I am in the presence of such greatness!!”

East Hampton, NY – Please join us for a special event at The Leiber Collection. Come meet Monica Banks and visit an expanded installation of her cakes and teacups, watch video of bird shenanigans, enjoy refreshments, and listen to her conversation about this ongoing
project with Artist and Bird Lover April Gornik, and Leiber Collection Director and Curator Ann Stewart.

From Monica Banks:

“Watching birds evokes the same ineffable feelings in me as looking at great art or listening to great music. I am honored to join together with my avian friends in my current body of work, “Sweet: A Collaboration With Birds,” currently on view at the Leiber Collection Garden of Friends and other locations through December. For this project I have created porcelain cakes, plates, and teacups that hold seed and water, and installed them outside on bistro tables, where birds swoop in to feed, drink, socialize and argue, creating a kind of performance piece. Since birds are uninhibited even when people are around, I often leave a camera to film them for hours at a time, and the videos and individual frames become part of the project. This ongoing dialogue with birds is a joyful, exuberant exploration of process and documentation.

On Saturday, December 2nd at 3:30pm at the Leiber Collection I will talk about why I find it so mystifying, and gratifying, to see birds dine on birdseed in cakes and sip water from teacups. I will show photos and video clips of the collaboration to illustrate my insights.”

Monica Banks is a Sculptor who was born in New York City, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. She creates lovely, sweet, conceptual porcelain sculptures of everyday domestic objects such as cakes, pies, cake plates, tea cups, or pastries, that upon closer observation have another surprising layer, an underbelly of the repulsive or the grotesque, a twist that one does not fully realize until up close and personal. She contrasts the sweet and the sour, the beautiful and the ugly, the attractive and repellant, expressing tormented emotional realities. Monica’s current works in the Leiber Sculpture Garden are beautiful dainty, tea party scenes that entice you to come closer, but upon examination you realize that the tea party is not intended for us, but for the tiny soaring creatures of the garden, our feathered friends, the birds. These pieces are a brilliant collaboration between Artist and Nature.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information see the website at www.leibercollection.org, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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A History of The Shinnecock Nation

with Artist Shane Weeks

Sunday, November 12 at 3:00pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to welcome Bizhiki Nibauit, Shane Weeks from The Shinnecock Nation as he discusses the history of Shinnecock and its relationship to other indigenous communities on Long Island and in the Northeast.

From Shane: “I will discuss our culture and way of life as it has evolved throughout the pre-contact, colonial and modern eras of Shinnecock history, giving an overview of the timeline that brings our community into the present day.”

Shane will have his book ‘Good Neighbors: A Shinnecock History From a Shinnecock Perspective’ for sale as well. Good Neighbors is a very important exploration of local history told through the eyes of a Shinnecock member and it is a chance for people today and in the future to learn about this Indigenous nation’s rich culture and traditions.

Shane Weeks, born February 16, 1990, is a proud member of the Shinnecock Nation. His upbringing on the Shinnecock Reservation has encouraged him to take on the responsibility of making our world better for future generations. Shane grew up understanding the importance of his culture and his connection to the natural world. His goal is to help encourage the preservation of his people’s history.

We are so very honored to have Shane share his life story, and the story of his ancestors with us.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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Seed Bombs and Wilding at the Waning Harvest Moon

and Dancer Bebe Huberty

with Artists Jill Musnicki and Erica-Lynn Huberty

Wednesday, November 1 at 3pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is very excited to present “Seed Bombs and Wilding at the Waning Harvest Moon” with Artists Jill Musnicki and Erica-Lynn Huberty and Dancer Bebe Huberty on Wednesday, November 1 at 3pm in the Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden.

Garden of Friends artists Jill Musnicki and Erica-Lynn Huberty will inspire concepts of re-wilding at the site of their works in the Garden at Leiber Collection, along with an original dance choreographed and performed by Bebe Huberty, in honor of the Earth and all that needs done to heal it quickly. After the presentation, the artists will meet at Sagg Main Beach on the ocean in Sagaponack at 5:30pm to participate in seed-bombing of important indigenous plantings needed for dune preservation and endangered pollinators.

Hot beverages and solos stoves will be on hand.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information and to reserve tickets, see our website at www.leibercollection.org, email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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The Purpose of Art

Artist Reception and Discussion

with Artist Chris Kelly

Saturday, October 7 at 4pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection invites you to an Artist Reception and Discussion with Artist Chris Kelly Come engage in a thought provoking discussion with Chris as we explore ‘The Purpose of Art’.

Art can be anything – from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to drip paintings to a banana taped to a wall. In our contemporary age, all subject matter is valid and any style or technique can be used. But what ties it all together? And why does it matter? In this lecture I aim to explore and illuminate why art is a necessity – not just for artists, but for all of human culture. Intellectual discussion and Q&A will be part of the presentation.

Chris Kelly was raised on the east end of Long Island in East Hampton, NY. He studied painting and sculpture at Cornell University and his work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions.

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Community Mobile-Making Workshop

With Artist Roisin Bateman

Sunday, October 8 at 2pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce a special community art-making workshop with Artist Roisin Bateman.

Using materials such as vines, leaves and twigs sourced from the Leiber Garden, and bound together with various types of wire, we will create sculptural forms. We’ll allow the materials to guide us as we explore different possibilities and shapes. Roisin will guide you through the process and you’ll be surprised at what emerges! Together we’ll create a mobile to suspend from a tree at the Leiber Garden. The piece will remain in the Garden of Friends for the duration of the exhibition.

In honor of her childhood growing up on the West coast of Ireland, we’ll have an “Irish tea”, with soda bread, and of course tea!

Roisin Bateman began her life and her art in the west of Ireland. After receiving her BFA from Belfast College of Art in Northern Ireland, she moved to the USA. For the past thirty years she has lived in Sag Harbor on the South Fork of Long Island.

Bateman’s paintings, prints, and pastel works have been shown throughout the US and Ireland, including at the Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY; Folioeast, East Hampton, NY; the Watermill Center and Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY; the Nabi Gallery, Manhattan; at the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; and the Linenhall Gallery in Castlebar, Ireland.

She has been leading art workshops for adults for the past 15 years, including at Guild Hall, East Hampton, Madoo Conservancy, Sagaponack, The Art Barge, Napeague, and JJML Library in Sag.

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Artist Talk and Gong Journey Meditation

with Artists

Sylvia Hommert and Stephanie Joyce

Wednesday, October 11 at 2pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce a special Artist event in the Leiber Garden of Friends on Wednesday, October 11 at 2:00pm.

Artist Sylvia Hommert will speak about her starburst series of meditational paintings, which inspired her sculpture in this Summer’s Garden of Friends exhibition at the Leiber Collection. In conjunction with fellow artist Stephanie Joyce, we graciously invite guests to partake in an immersive gong journey meditation. We kindly request that attendees bring their yoga mats and blankets for your comfort. Reception will follow.

“Light and the reflection of light, how it interacts in an environment, is a constant thread that flows through my work. I am captivated by the silvery light glistening off alpine icicles and the lavender iridescence of sunset on water. It’s elusive, full of movement, ever changing, and it’s this ephemeral quality that intrigues me. How the passing of time plays off the luminous surfaces of each painting–the highs and lows, the shadows and relief. The color subtly shifts too, as the light moves through a space from sunrise to sunset, or as you move through the room. An organic calendar that clocks both physical movement and the passage of time.” ~Sylvia Hommert

“The landscapes, symbols and organic forms that emerge in my work mirror life and offer a call to reflect and nurture the soul. A range of materials have been transformed and repurposed so that they transcend definition and traditions. The outcome is an experience which enters a mystical realm where ritual, genealogy and anthropological roots are explored. Travels to India to study yoga, meditation and sound healing gave me new eyes to see. I became a certified yoga and meditation teacher and began offering healing arts programs to the community. My creative focus is art as a vehicle for collaboration, connection, exploring diverse cultures, and healing.” ~Stephanie Joyce

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information see the website at www.leibercollection.org, email info!@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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Three Artists In The Garden

Philippe Cheng, Donna Green and Bastienne Schmidt

Saturday, August 27 at 3pm

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce the second event of our series celebrating the artists in our current Garden of Friends Exhibition. Come enjoy an afternoon of Art in The Garden as Philippe Cheng, Donna Green and Bastienne Schmidt discuss their evocative works currently on view in The Leiber Sculpture Garden. Refreshments will be served.

Philippe Cheng is a fine artist based in Bridgehampton, New York. Born and raised in New York, he was educated at The School of Visual Art and New York University. His works in The Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden are part of a larger project entitled, “All the Light You Cannot See” and is a search for light in (un)seen places. It includes several site specific installations that capture light in spots that one does not expect to see it, and focuses our attention on a light quality that resonates and surprises. Using common building materials, reflective aluminum flashing and metal rods, woven within the low ground plantings with expansive and subtle light, Cheng is able to show that what is often passed by can be a place of light revelation.

Donna Green is an artist working with clay. She lives and works in Watermill, New York and New York City. She was born in Sydney, Australia, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design from Sydney College of the Arts in New South Wales, Australia. In 1985 Green moved to New York and began working in clay shortly thereafter. Her ceramic sculptures are in a continuing state of growth and transformation. Green plays with coils of stoneware, prodding and poking to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes that burst and stretch into space, testing the clay’s physical limits. Her distorted vessels investigate the dichotomy of ugly and beautiful; the heroically scaled urns undulate and drip with layer upon layer of glaze. Green draws inspiration from the ancient Jomon ceramics of Japan and Chinese Han Dynasty storage jars, as well as Gonshi, the natural occurring scholars’ rocks, and Baroque garden grottos.

Bastienne Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist working with sculpture, photography, painting and large-scale drawings. She was born in Munich Germany, raised in Greece and Italy and has lived in New York for the past 30 years. She spent her childhood surrounded by her father’s archeological work, which instilled in her a desire to organize, map, and attempt to understand systems through her artwork. Art for Schmidt falls into the realm of archeology, exploring layers of history and meaning, and reassigning value to them. She is interested in the documentation and creation of artifacts that carry the patina of memory, history, and time as organizing principles. Schmidt’s process relates often to the use of humble materials, such as fabric, twigs, strings, and thin transparent paper that is subsequently painted and drawn upon. Geometric forms such as circles, triangles and squares play a role in her work, such as the use of typologies as an artistic tool. In the Leiber Sculpture Garden Schmidt created three new outdoor site specific installations celebrating the sun, a powerful collaborator with all of the works in the garden. All three works form an homage to the power of nature.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information email info@leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

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What Remains Vestigial ~

A Dialog Between Portraiture and Poetry

Saturday, July 29 at 4:00pm

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Candace Hill and Aurelio Torres ~ What Remains Vestigial A Dialog Between Portraiture and Poetry

Saturday, July 29, 2023 – 4:00pm at The Leiber Collection

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce a magical, thought provoking coopetition featuring Candace Hill and Aurelio Torres as they present “What Remains Vestigial ~ A Dialog Between Portraiture and Poetry” in the Leiber Sculpture Garden. As part our Garden of Friends Exhibition, these two accomplished artists will present a battle of sorts, a race of time, as Candace reads her poetry while Aurelio paints her portrait.

Candace Hill is an African-American multi-disciplinary artist and writer. She works in photography, mixed-media collage, and watercolors. Candace’s art works use elements of fabric and poetry to convey social issues through the usage of humor and satire. The topics covered in her artworks are racism, poverty and feminism, migrants and refugee children. Her artwork in The Garden of Friends exhibition pairs a beloved Judith Leiber minaudière, a gift to her from fashion icon Bill Blass, with poetry and photos of her as a fashion model working for Blass. Bill Blass was also a dear friend of Judith Leiber’s, making this artwork by Candace an incredibly special piece in our current exhibition.

Aurelio Torres was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to a family of artists, and was raised in New York City. His work infuses the aesthetic principles of classicism within contemporary settings. His painting typically depicts scenes from nature or portraits, and his sculptures most often interpret the simple, clean lines of wooden ships.

He says of his time making art during his world travels, “The people there were just enchanted when I took out a pad and started drawing. There is a magic to going to another place and being able to paint.”

Come enjoy the magic yourself, in the Leiber Sculpture Garden, on Saturday, July 29 at 4pm. Artist reception follows.

About the Leiber Collection:

The Leiber Sculpture Garden that surrounds the museum continues Judith and Gerson’s lifelong commitment to supporting the arts by highlighting sculptors who were their friends and neighbors such as Bill King, Constantino Nivola, Hans Van de Bovencamp, George Nama, Ronnie Chalif and others, and includes contemporary artists creating some of the most exciting work of today such as Philippe Cheng, Margaret Garrett, Toni Ross, Saskia Friedrich and others.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information see the website at www.leibercollection.org or call 631-329- 3288.

Click HERE to reserve tickets.

Summer 2023:

Glamor, Whimsy and Awe ~

60 Years of Judith Leiber’s

Artful Handbags

Our Fourth Annual

Garden of Friends exhibition

Monica Banks
Sweet ~ A Collaboration with Birds

The Garden of Friends

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Plus

In honor of Pride month

Lindsay Morris – YOU ARE YOU

Showcasing images from Lindsay’s monograph and decade long project documenting a summer camp for gender expansive children.

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Winter 2022 – 2023:

Winter Garden ~ A Collaboration

The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition in the Leiber Sculpture Garden, ‘Winter Garden – A Collaboration’, with artists Monica Banks, Philippe Cheng, Laurie Lambrecht, Jill Musnicki, Mamoun Nukumanu, and Bastienne Schmidt.

Exploring a garden in the winter a magical experience of space and light, like a meditative journey of sorts. Spending time in Nature offers a chance to slow down, to be still and quiet, to reflect and think, to be restored. There are beautiful things to hear and see, fresh air to breathe, dancing leaves to notice on the breeze. The bare branches above become a gestural drawing in the sky. There is a unique hush, a palpable quiet to calm the heart and mind.

The artists in this exhibition created site specific works that honor nature as a collaborative partner, working with and in the trees and their branches, with the newfound space, the magical light, the ever-changing wind, the intrepid birds and the deep quiet found in the winter garden.

Don’t let the cold keep you indoors! Come enjoy the Winter Garden with these extraordinary artists. Through March 19.

Artist reception is Saturday, December 17 from 1 – 4pm.

For more information and to reserve a ticket please visit www.leibercollection.org or email info@leibercollection.org.

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Summer 2022:

Celebrate Nature and Color with Artist Laurie Lambrecht

Saturday, August 13 at 11am

Meet the artist & participate in a collaborative project in the Garden!

Bring a picnic and a beach chair, and make art with Laurie Lambrecht!

For more information click HERE.

Click HERE to reserve tickets.

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Celebrate Nature and Color

with Artist Laurie Lambrecht

Saturday, August 13 at 11am

Meet the artist & participate in a collaborative project in the Garden!

“Let’s take inspiration from the iridescence of Judith Leiber’s beadwork and the beautiful simplicity found in nature. Using colorful up-cycled wool yarns we’ll wrap fallen tree branches and collectively build an artwork on the grounds of the Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden.” ~ Laurie Lambrecht

Springs / East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce a fun family event with East End Artist Laurie Lambrecht in The Sculpture Garden! Drawing inspiration from Laurie’s wrapped twigs pieces living in the garden presently, we will gather twigs and branches that have fallen from our trees, and using brightly colored yarns and fabrics, some sparkly or shiny, a collaborative artwork will be born. The piece will remain in the Garden of Friends for the duration of the exhibition.

Laurie Lambrecht is an internationally celebrated artist who works with fiber and photography, nature and color. Laurie’sapproach to her enchanting work comes from her deep respect and passion for Nature and with the patterns, textures, and colors she finds in the natural world.

Her work is presently on view in The Garden of Friends exhibition at the Leiber Collection in Springs and in Threading The Needle at The Church in Sag Harbor.

Come meet Laurie as she invites viewers to share in the experience of art-making with her.

Bring a picnic, a beach chair, and your creativity and come meet this extraordinary artist, and create some beautiful artwork alongside her.

About The Leiber Collection

The Leiber Collection is a beautiful jewel of a museum surrounded by a sublime sculpture garden located on Long Island in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. Created as a nexus of Art, Fashion and Culture by its founders, famed Artful Handbag Designer Judith Leiber and celebrated Modernist Artist Gerson Leiber, it is a rare treat located in The Springs

It was in 2005 that Judith and Gerson opened The Leiber Collection, a magnificent Renaissance structure inspired by the temples that dot the landscapes of the Great Gardens of Europe. We call it the Leiber Taj Mahal as Gus built it with great love to honor the creative genius of his wife.

For more information and to reserve a ticket please visit www.leibercollection.org or email info@leibercollection.org.

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Museum and Sculpture Garden

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Garden Tea Party and Special Book Event with Author Mindelle Pierce ‘Love with No Tomorrow ~ Tales of Romance During The Holocaust’

Sunday, August 21 from 4 – 6pm
In the Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden

East Hampton / Springs, NY – The Leiber Collection is proud to welcome author Mindelle Pierce on Sunday, August 21, 2022 from 4 – 6pm as she discusses her new book, ‘Love with No Tomorrow ~ Tales of Romance During The Holocaust’. You are invited to meet the author while enjoying a Garden Tea Party on the grounds of the Leibers’ fabulous museum.

Pierce’s book includes the love story of iconic handbag designer Judith Leiber and celebrated modernist artist Gerson Leiber who met on the war torn streets of Budapest, Hungary in 1945. The two fell in love, courted, and married as the land of Judith’s youth rebuilt itself after one of the bloodiest battles of WWII, and the two lovers built a life of dreams. In 1946 the young couple moved to America and immersed themselves in the world of Art and Fashion in New York City, turning their experiences of horror during the war into a life of beauty, love and inspiration.

“Judith and Gus, the Leibers, had a seventy-two-year romance that began in Budapest in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It ended on 28 April 2018, when they both passed away. They left for the Garden of Eden within hours of each other, buried together to continue their loving partnership on the journey through eternity, artisan and artist living and leaving in perfect harmony. She was the artisan, he was the artist. They shared a common passion for art, fashion, living and loving.” Mindelle Pierce from ‘Love with No Tomorrow ~ Tales of Romance During The Holocaust’

About the Book: Love at first sight, during the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel, forged in the flames of hate. The book narrates the love stories of 27 couples who met before and during the Holocaust, including the story of Judith and Gerson Leiber. They speak of how their love helped them survive the atrocities of the Holocaust and live to tell their stories. These are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous, degrading, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust, seen through the eyes of those in love, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine. The narratives in this book are an integral part of the Holocaust’s story and merit a place in its history as we recount these experiences of women and men who found love during the Holocaust.

About the Author:
Mindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City, New Jersey.

About the Leiber Collection: Leiber Collection Founders, famed artful handbag designer Judith Leiber and celebrated modernist artist Gerson Leiber, fell in love with the Hamptons in the early 1950s when they began coming ‘Out East’ as a respite from their busy life in New York City. Drawn by the extraordinary light quality, the quiet atmosphere and the other artistic, intellectual and lively residents, they found Springs to be a fertile environment for their creative endeavors, be it Fashion Design, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture or even Gardening.

Judith’s handbags have been declared objets d’art by Geoffrey Beene; and in the New York Times, Hilton Kramer, the paper’s former premier art critic, praised Gerson for his mastery and skill of composition and color. Harold Koda, former curator in charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wrote: “…there is a beautiful resonance of aesthetic interests between Judith and Gerson, especially in their mutual love of brilliant color and rigorous structure.”

The Leiber Sculpture Garden that surrounds the museum continues Judith and Gerson’s lifelong commitment to supporting the arts by highlighting sculptors who were their friends and neighbors such as Bill King, Constantino Nivola, Hans Van de Bovencamp, George Nama, Ronnie Chalif and others, and includes contemporary artists creating some of the most exciting work of today such as Philippe Cheng, Margaret Garrett, Toni Ross, Saskia Friedrich and others.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. For more information see the website at www.leibercollection.org or call 631-329-3288.

Pre-registration through the website is encouraged.

$50 suggested donation includes a signed book.

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JULY 3, 2022 Ann Fristoe Stewart -info@leibercollection.org

“Historic Artists’ Sites of Long Island” Website Is Live!

(East Hampton, NY) – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce their inclusion in the exciting new website of iconic artists’ homes and studios of Long Island.

Thank you to The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation and grant recipient The Heckscher Museum of Art for launching the new website Historic Artists’ Sites of Long Island, Historic Artists’ Sites of Long Island, www.lihistoricartistssites.org developed by Graphic Image Group, Inc.

From the 19^th century to present times, Long Island has held a special place in the creative imagination. From native landscape and genre painters William Sidney Mount and his family to modernist transplants like Arthur Dove and Helen Torr and the abstract expressionists who clustered on the East End, artists working in various styles and media, from traditional to experimental, have found common ground here.

Kathryn M. Curran, Executive Director of The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation describes the importance of these locations, “Long Island has a proud place in American art history. Offering exceptional light and air, along with inspirational vistas, artists have always flocked here to live and

work. This website links the studios and homes of some of America’s greatest artists over centuries. It offers a historic view into another aspect of our region’s rich creative and cultural heritage. I strongly urge you to explore these places and support the stewards who are dedicated to their oversight and promote their legacy.”

The website is an online guide to discover the living and working environments of some of America’s most influential artists. Visitors to the site can explore these homes and studios, experience the surroundings that inspired the artists, and gain insights into their creative processes. Many of these locations are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Arthur Dove and Helen Torr Cottage, Centerport – The Heckscher Museum of Art

Arts Center at Duck Creek (artist John Little), East Hampton

D’Amico Institute (The Art Barge) (artists Victor D’Amico and Mabel Birckhead D’Amico), Amagansett

Dan Flavin Art Institute at Dia Bridgehampton

Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton

Leiber Museum (designer Judith Leiber and artist Gerson Leiber), East Hampton

LongHouse Reserve (artist Jack Lenor Larsen), East Hampton

Pollock-Krasner House (Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner), East Hampton – Stony Brook University

Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, East Hampton

Watermill Center (artist Robert Wilson), Watermill

William Sidney Mount House, Stony Brook – Long Island Museum

About The Robert David Lion Foundation

Inspired by the late Robert David Lion Gardiner’s personal passion for New York history, The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, established in 1987, primarily support the study of Long Island history and its role in the American experience. For more information, visit rdlgfoundation.org.

About the Heckscher Museum of Art

The Heckscher Museum of Art is in its second century as a source of art and inspiration on Long Island. Founded by philanthropists Anna and August Heckscher in 1920, the Museum’s collection comprises more than 2,300 works from the 16^thto the 21^stcentury, including European and American painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. Located in scenic Heckscher Park in Huntington, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visit Heckscher.org.

About The Leiber Collection

The Leiber Collection is a beautiful jewel of a museum surrounded by a sublime sculpture garden located on Long Island in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. Created as a nexus of Art, Fashion and Culture by its founders Judith and Gerson Leiber, it is a rare treat located in The Springs

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Chris Kelly

The Golden Ratio

and Fibonacci in Art

Artist Talk and Wine & Cheese Reception with Sculptor and Painter Chris Kelly

Saturday, August 6 at 5 pm

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Artist Chris Kelly discusses The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci in Art.

Saturday, August 6 at 5 pm at The Leiber Collection Garden

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce the second event in our summer series celebrating the artists in our Garden of Friends exhibition.

Come hear the fascinating artist Chris Kelly as he speaks on the history of the Golden Ratio in art and various ways it has been used since the time of the Ancient Greeks to present day. He will also talk about how it relates to the geometry of nature and how he uses it as a source of inspiration to create his abstract paintings and sculptures. The discussion will be part art history, part philosophy about art, and how we can keep finding new ways of artistic expression based on the world around us.

Wine and cheese reception begins at 5pm with Artist Talk beginning shortly after.

Chris Kelly was raised on the east end of Long Island in East Hampton, NY. He studied painting and sculpture at Cornell University and his work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions – most recently at Colm Rowan Fine Art in East Hampton, amArtHouse in Bantam, CT, Mark Borghi gallery in Sag Harbor, The Lucore Art Gallery in Montauk, and The Leiber Museum in Springs. In addition, he was represented at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair in Southampton and was honored as a “Featured Artist” for their 2022 exhibition. He has received corporate commissions from such places as the Dream Hotel in Manhattan, the Grey Matters design group in Singapore, and his artworks are in many corporate spaces and private collections. After living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for many years, Kelly is now back in East Hampton where he lives and creates artwork full time.

For more information and to reserve a ticket please visit www.leibercollection.org or email info@leibercollection.org.

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About The Leiber Collection

For more information and to reserve a ticket please visit www.leibercollection.org or email info@leibercollection.org.

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Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration at The Leiber Collection

Sunday, October, 10 from 4 – 8 pm

A Day of Art, Music, Dance, Fashion and Film

Indigenous marketplace with Art, Photography, Handmade Jewelry, Clothing, Food,

Indigenous Music, Dance, Song,

and the screening of the award winning documentary film ‘1000 Years a Witness’

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is incredibly honored to celebrate our Shinnecock Friends and all Indigenous Peoples on Sunday, October 10 from 4 – 8pm in the garden.

Our hosts, The Shinnecock, will be showing and selling handmade jewelry, clothing and food in this beautiful setting. Art and photography will be shown and Indigenous Music performed.

We will also be screening the beautiful and powerful documentary film of the tribal elders “1000 Years a Witness”. In this film, Native American and other indigenous elders, with combined ages of 1,000 years, look back at their lives on and off reservations and in other Native territories and they share wisdom and stories passed down and beneficial to all.

Filmmaker Bryan Downey will be there to discuss the film and some the Shinnecock Elders who share their life stories in the film will be there as well.

Michelle Thomas, singer from the Navajo Tribe will be joining us. Michelle won the NAMA “Native American music award” for her song “Beautifully”.

Josh Richardson, from the Haliwa Saponi tribe is a champion dancer and tours the US. He will be sharing dance with us.

Denise Smith -Meachum, Native caterer of Shinnecock foods will be there with her fried bread, clams, fritters and more.

Also we have Fashion Designer Kayla Looking-Horse Smith’s line of stunning Indigenous clothing.

Jeweler Tohanosh Tarrant, owner of Thunderbird Designs will be selling her original Shinnecock jewelry, pendants, necklaces for men and women alike. She will also have some of her brothers hand made arrows and hunting tools on display. Plus she will have Thunderbird coffee for sale.

Ed Terry a Shinnecock Jeweler who specializes in sea shell jewelry and who is in the documentary will be there.

Gloria Smith who is a beautiful Shinnecock Storyteller and painter will be with us. She is also in the documentary.

Lyle Smith, Sr, a carver of amazing duck decoys will be there.

Shinnecock Artist Durrell Hunter will bring some of his incredible paintings to sell.

And more…

Come join us as we honor and promote the culture of the people who are native to this land that we are lucky to call home.

Tickets are free and all donations will go to MMIW – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

To reserve tickets please go to www.leibercollection.org– TICKETS.

This will be day dedicated to celebrating the culture of the Shinnecock Nation and an opportunity to support Indigenous artists, artisans, and performers.

Covid precautions will be in place. Please bring your beach chair.

Come early to view the Leiber Collection Museum exhibition Centennial Legacy – A Celebration of the Life, Love and Art of Judith and Gerson Leiberand The Garden of Friends exhibitionfrom 1 – 4pm.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, NY. The Collection is free and open to the public from 1 PM to 4 PM every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday, and at other times by appointment. For more information visit the website at www.leibercollection.org or email info@leibercollection.org

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Still image from Christine Sciulli’s projection piece “The Rains Are Changing”

Inspiring Series of Artists Events In The Leiber Sculpture Garden – Saturday, September, 25 from 5 – 8 pm

An Evening of Art, Light, Projections, Music and more…
with Christine Sciuilli, Laurie Lambrecht, Margaret Garrett, Jill Musnicki, Scott Bluedorn, Conrad de Kwiatkowski and the band Alpha Gal

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce the third event in our series celebrating the artists in our current Garden of Friends Exhibition, An Evening of Art, Light, Projections, Music and more… in the Leiber Sculpture Garden.

Please join us as Laurie Lambrecht, Margaret Garrett and Scott Bluedorn discuss their extraordinary new work on view in the garden, followed by the band Alpha Gal. As evening falls, you will enjoy illuminating works of light by Jill Musnicki, Scott Bluedorn and Conrad de Kwiatkowski and, Christine Sciuilli will show her thought provoking projection piece “The Rains are Changing”, a visual meditation on the reins of world leadership in the face of cataclysmic climate change.

Come early to view the Leiber Collection Museum exhibition Centennial Legacy – A Celebration of the Life, Love and Art of Judith and Gerson Leiber as the museum will remain open until 5pm.

The Garden of Friends exhibition, on display in The Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden showcases new works from some of the East End’s most talented artists, Scott Bluedorn, Philippe Cheng, Peter Dayton, Pipi Deer, Jeremy Dennis, Conrad de Kwiatkowski, Saskia Friedrich, Margaret Garrett, Jeremy Grosvenor, Laurie Lambrecht, Jill Musnicki, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Aurelio Torres, Christine Sciulli, and Almond Zigmund.

Alpha Gal, an alpha gal band, named after the allergy, will play a short set of cover tunes from Radiohead to Florence and the Machine.

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Inspiring Series of Artist’s Events In The Leiber Sculpture Garden

Five Artists In The Garden – Sunday, August 15 at 4:00 PM

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to announce the second event in our series celebrating the artists in our current Garden of Friends Exhibition, an afternoon of inspiring artists talks in the Leiber Sculpture Garden.

Come enjoy an afternoon of Art in the Garden as Jeremy Dennis, Philippe Cheng, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt and Almond Zigmund discuss their extraordinary new works on view in The Leiber Collection’s current Garden of FriendsExhibition.

The Garden of Friends, on display in The Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden showcases new works from some of the East End’s most talented artists, Scott Bluedorn, Philippe Cheng, Peter Dayton, Pipi Deer, Jeremy Dennis, Conrad de Kwiatkowski, Saskia Friedrich, Margaret Garrett, Jeremy Grosvenor, Laurie Lambrecht, Jill Musnicki, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Aurelio Torres, Christine Sciulli, and Almond Zigmund.

For a full list of Artist Talks and Events please check the Leiber Collection website at www.leibercollection.org.

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The Leiber Collection presents Scott Bluedorn’s ‘Bonac Blind’ Open House

East Hampton / Springs, NY – The Leiber Collection is thrilled to host an Open House of Scott Bluedorn’s outstanding work ‘THE BONAC BLIND’!

Please join us this Sunday, August 8 from 1 – 4pm as artist Scott Bluedorn gives tours of his compelling and powerful piece ‘The Bonac Blind’.

‘Bonac Blind’ is simultaneously a small, off grid floating structure, memorial to local Bonac culture, and comment on climate change and affordable housing.

Scott describes The Bonac Blind as “a multi-faceted Art intervention, a floating, off-grid micro home that references the traditional Bonac culture of fishing, farming and hunting, while also serving as a comment on the erosion of this culture due to the compound problems of housing prices, climate change and modernity. The Bonac Blind is a floating hand built micro-dwelling modeled after a traditional duck blind. Conceptually, I wanted to draw attention to the drastic shortage of affordable housing in the Hamptons that has effected a mass exodus of working class people especially in the older local families native to East Hampton known as Bonackers. This population, traditionally farmers, fisherman and hunters, have been increasingly forced to leave the place they have called home for generations for other more affordable regions causing a huge loss of town character, history, culture and tradition.”

Originally moored in Accabonac Harbor off of Landing Lane in Springs, ‘The Bonac Blind’ brings attention to a lost way of life as it perhaps invites us to dream of a simpler world, one in partnership with nature, art and brilliant imagination… the Bonacker way.

Tours led by Scott Bluedorn are available for small groups on a first come first serve basis from 1 – 4pm on Sunday, August 8.

“Scott Bluedorn is an artist and environmentalist from East Hampton, New York. He is extremely passionate about local conservation and about the connection between social and environmental issues and art. He values the traditional ideals and culture of the original Bonackers, a major aspect of this being their rich maritime history. He draws inspiration from buildings and ideas of the past while integrating ideas for a better future culturally and environmentally.” -Caly Stewart from www.calyswaterqualityinitiative.com/interviews

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, NY. The Collection is free and open to the public every Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday from 1 – 4PM and at other times by appointment. For more information visit the website at www.leibermuseum.orgor email info@leibercollection.org Huge thank you to Judith and Gerson Leiber for the extraordinary Leiber Collection Museum and Sculpture Garden, truly a special gem of the Hamptons!

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Centennial Legacy: Gerson and Judith Leiber Exhibition Opens May 29 at the Leiber Collection and Leonard Tourné Gallery

NEW YORK, NY – April 2021 – The Leiber Collection in partnership with Leonard Tourné Gallery, is pleased to present “Centennial Legacy,” celebrating the artistic legacy of Judith and Gerson Leiber on what would have been their 100th year on earth together. The exhibition, curated by Ann Fristoe Stewart, will showcase a rarely seen collection of oil paintings by American Abstract Expressionist painter Gerson Leiber as well as precious minaudières—each a work of art in its own right—by world renown designer Judith Leiber.

The exhibition opens to the public on May 29, 2021 and will run through September 2021 at Leonard Tourné Gallery and through the end of April 2022 at The Leiber Collection.

The Leiber Collection and Sculpture Garden sits in the hamlet of Springs in East Hampton, NY. Springs became a thriving artists colony in the middle of the century and is often referred to as the cradle of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Jackson Pollock’s studio has been preserved nearby in the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Elaine deKooning, Franz Kline, John Ferren and many other artists lived and worked in Springs throughout the 20th century. Gerson joined his peers in 1956 and maintained his studio in Springs until his death in 2018.

Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson Leiber began his artistic career during World War II while stationed in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Budapest and, after the war, took up printmaking and painting at the Art Students League of New York. He later studied engraving with Gabor Peterdi at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. In the words of Ruth Appelhof, director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, Gerson Leiber is “one of a pantheon of outstanding 20th Century artists who has explored styles, even movements, with the dexterity of a gifted, extremely self-confident person always expressing his own aesthetic at the core of his work.”

Art critic and curator Phyllis Braff wrote, “An artist who understands the art of his era, [Gerson] Leiber builds on the optical velocities and gestural immediacies of Abstract Expressionism.”

Gerson Leiber has had dozens of solo exhibitions in the United States and Israel and his work is included in collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among many others. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Academy of Design’s Benjamin Altman Prize for the Figure, The Ralph Fabri Medal of Merit, the Museum of Fine Arts Purchase Award, and the President’s Award.

Judith Leiber (née Judit Pető) was born in Budapest in 1921. She met Gerson Leiber while he was serving in Hungary; the two married in 1946 and moved to New York the following year. In 1963, Judith Leiber founded her eponymous company, which she ran successfully until her retirement in 1998. Her handbags are cherished, collected, and worn by collectors, celebrities, royalty, and First Ladies of the United States of America. Her bags belong to the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design, among others. Judith Leiber received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers in 1994 and a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College in 2010.

Gerson and Judith Leiber died on the same day in April 2018. Their works remain on view at the Leiber Collection and Sculpture Garden, dedicated to sharing the life and legacy of the two artists through the continuation of their museum and through exhibitions, talks, and presentations showcasing their creative genius. Leonard Tourné Gallery is honored to partner with the museum in creating this exhibition.

For additional information or to schedule a viewing, please contact Leonard Tourné Gallery at info@leonardtourne.com or by phone at (212) 219-2656. The exhibition is also viewable online at www.leonardtournegallery.com.

The Leiber Collection and Sculpture Garden is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, New York. For hours and directions, please contact The Leiber Collection at (631) 329-3288 or email info@leibercollection.org.

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The Garden of Friends Exhibition opens on May 29 at The Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden

East Hampton, New York – April 2021 – the Leiber Collection is delighted to welcome 16 extraordinary East End Artists into The Garden of Friends!

The Garden of Friends is an enchanting exhibition taking place in the Leiber Sculpture Garden featuring works by Scott Bluedorn, Philippe Cheng, Peter Dayton, Pipi Deer, Jeremy Dennis, Conrad de Kwiatkowski, Saskia Friedrich, Margaret Garrett, Jeremy Grosvenor, Laurie Lambrecht, Jill Musnicki, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Aurelio Torres, Almond Zigmund and with a special night of projections with Christine Sciuilli.

Curated by Ann Fristoe Stewart in the spirit of community and friendship, it is truly a special exhibition that is not to be missed. The group of artists exhibited are making some of the most interesting work of the day. A series of Artists Talks and events will be presented throughout the season as well.

Open Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays from 1 – 4 and at other times for private tours by appointment – through the end of September, 2021.

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THE LEIBER COLLECTION HONORED BY THE TOWN & STATE

East Hampton, NY – The Leiber Collection, located in Springs, has been honored by both the Town of East Hampton and the State of New York.

In a proclamation issued by the East Hampton Town Board and presented by Deputy Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, it was declared “the Leiber Museum has been visited by thousands of students who regard Judith Leiber as a fashion icon and pioneer, and has welcomed visitors from virtually every state and several European, South American, and Asian countries who have made it one of the cultural monuments of East Hampton, therefore, the Town of East Hampton honors Judith and Gerson Leiber for their artistic achievements and cultural contributions to our community.”

The State of New York also issued a proclamation that was presented on the grounds of the Leiber Collection by State Senator LaValle and State Assemblyman Thiele. Their proclamation declared that “in East Hampton the Leibers have built a magnificent Palladian-style museum on seven acres of beautiful gardens…the legislative body is proud to extend its highest commendation to Judith Leiber for her dedication and commitment to her community and heritage.”

Earlier this year both Senator Gillibrand and Senator Schumer issued similar proclamations that commemorate and honor the artistic contributions of the Leibers.

The Leiber Collection is open and free to the public on Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 PM. For further information, please visit the www.leibercollection.org or email info@leibercollection.org

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ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Judith Leiber Handbags

Since 2008, over one hundred and fifty of Judith Leiber’s most prized designs have been on permanent view at the Leiber Collection. Each display has been curated with attention to detail and design, encouraging visitors to view these iconic fashionable objects as works of art. This retrospective exhibition offers views not only on the development of Leiber’s acclaimed designs, but on the various advances made in the fashion industry during her fruitful career. To view the entire catalog for this exhibition, select the link below:

JL.MuseumCatalog.1.pdf

Antique Chinese Porcelains from Eight Dynasties (206 BCE to 1912)

The Leiber Collection’s 2008 inaugural exhibition Antique Chinese Porcelains from Eight Dynasties (206 BCE to 1912) features approximately 140 of Judith and Gerson Leiber’s rare Chinese porcelains. This eclectic collection contains pieces that date back thousands of years, as well as pieces that were created in the first years of the 20^th Century. The exhibition offers vital cultural and artistic insights into China’s glorious past, demonstrating its magnificent contribution to the art and craft of porcelain pottery.

This exhibition remains on permanent display and can be viewed upon request in one of the collection’s private galleries. To view the entire catalog for this exhibition, select the link below:

Chinese Catalog

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