Avram Gallery Maps Out Southampton's Sustainable Future

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y., October 30, 2009 – Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Gallery continues its fascinating and colorful "Seeing Southampton" exhibit through Dec. 12. The gallery is open Thursdays through Saturdays 2-6 p.m.

Using various maps of the town, the Gallery is focusing on the Southampton community and current conditions; particularly specifics of the physical place, history and current use patterns. Each map shows some aspect that affects sustainability. The maps are intended to raise questions rather than provide answers.

“Southampton: a Question?” A Call for Entries
The Avram Gallery us also seeking submissions for its upcoming "Southampton: a Question?" exhibit.

Members of the community are invited to prepare a 24” x 36” poster for an exhibition in the Avram Lobby. Each poster should depict a single issue that affects our environment. Artists may submit a single large image or many smaller images. Submissions will be accepted until December 18th, on mounted paper or as a single digital file. It is not expected that any one poster will tell the “whole story,” but rather illustrate a detail of our understanding of sustainability.

The question for artists: What does a Sustainable Future mean to you?

“Southampton: a Question?” will be on view from January 25 - May 1, 2010. For further information, contact 631-632-5161.

About the Gallery

The Avram Gallery is an integral part of the unique education offered at Stony Brook Southampton.

The gallery exists to establish a cultural sense of place, explore concepts of environmental awareness and visually celebrate literature. Quarterly exhibits highlight nationally recognized work.

The gallery features more than 1,000 square feet of 21st-century exhibit space and is an intimate setting where artists and art lovers regularly interact, both directly and through the inviting world-class-level displays the gallery offers.

The Avram Gallery reopened in Fall 2008 with an exhibit and presentation by renowned Broadway artist James McMullan and continued in 2009 with Richard Mayhew, considered one of the greatest living landscape painters, and Milton Glaser, famed graphic artist.

 

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