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SOUTHAMPTON, NY MAY 20, 2025 — The Southampton Arts Center and the Peconic Land Trust’s Bridge Gardens announce their partnership with Hamptons Sculpture SIGHTS - The Hamptons' Premiere Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Series, founded and curated by Cheryl Sokolow of C Fine Art.

This initiative promises to enhance the cultural landscape of the Hamptons by showcasing exceptional outdoor sculptures across multiple locations for the season, making dynamic large-scale sculpture accessible to the community.

ORGANIC ABSTRACTION @ SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER

The exhibition, entitled Organic Abstraction: Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture, returns to the grounds of the Southampton Art Center for its 2nd season. The exhibition explores the materials, processes, and techniques of established, internationally recognized, museum-collected sculptors working within a formalist paradigm.

Appreciable is the artist's plight as they shape, mold and weld a negotiated balance between malleability and constraint dictated by their chosen material. Syntax, form, and the artistic process become the subject matter of each work, each being most immediately understood by its physical attributes engendering a pure, aesthetic experience, free of narrative.

UNCOMMON GROUND VI @ BRIDGE GARDENS

Uncommon Ground returns to Bridge Gardens for its 6th Edition. Uncommon Ground VI examines our relationship with the natural world and the one which we create. The dynamic of "the garden" itself, with its undulating play between the cultivated and purely natural, provides the substrate or ground from which the sculptures are seemingly born.

Notions of nature connect and inspire both exhibitions by virtue of material, form, or concept.

The relationship with transitory nature is seen in the sculptures of Norman Mooney where the intricacies of form, pattern, and the sequences found in natural phenomena are captured with exquisite, highly-polished surfaces providing a mirror into the natural surroundings.

Kevin Barrett presents manifestations of organic shapes and rhythms rooted in both the human form and landscape with impeccable grace and natural balance. Isobel Folb Sokolow's sculptures reference the Big Bang Theory, which her process powerfully mimics as fire-welded forms explode into being.

Both exhibitions harness the natural essence of outdoor atmosphere providing a continuous and evolving synergy between nature, art and spectator, fostering an immersive experience of scale, perspective, place, and discovery.

Participating artists include Bill Barrett, Joel Perlman, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Jane Manus, Kevin Barrett, Norman Mooney, Carole Eisner, Alex Barrett, Matt Devine, John Clement, Isobel Folb Sokolow, Micheal Enn Sirvet, Steve Zalusky, Aurelio Torres, and Jerelyn Hanrahan.

A unique fund raising opportunity will be provided through the purchase of artwork or donation to either non-profit organization.

ABOUT SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER

Southampton Arts Center is committed to community building through the arts, presenting and producing inspiring, inclusive, socially and regionally relevant programs across all disciplines – welcoming, connecting, and collaborating with the diverse members of New York’s East End community and beyond.

“We are truly delighted to be able to collaborate with Cheryl to bring world-class sculptures to the grounds of the Southampton Arts Center for all our community and visitors to come and enjoy.” Notes Christina Mossaides Strassfield, Executive Director, Southampton Arts Center.

ABOUT BRIDGE GARDENS

Bridge Gardens was founded in 1988 by Jim Kilpatric and Harry Neyens who designed and installed the gardens over the ensuing 20 years. In 2008 Bridge Gardens was donated to the Peconic Land Trust, a not-for-profit organization that conserves the working farms, natural lands and heritage of Long Island. Since 1983, the Trust has worked in partnership with landowners, local government, partner organizations, and communities to conserve over 14,000 acres of land on Long Island.

ABOUT CHERYL SOKOLOW AND C FINE ART

Sculpture specialist Cheryl Sokolow has over 25 years of art world experience with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Art History.

In 2009 she founded C Fine Art, an advisory and private dealership specializing in dimensional artwork; she has placed numerous sculptures in important, private and institutional collections worldwide.

Recently launching Hamptons Sculpture Sights, she aims to bring large-scale, contemporary sculpture to the community, contributing to the cultural landscape across multiple locations throughout the season.