Connie Fox's Sammy's Beach Exhibition at Danese/Corey Explores East Hampton Landscape

Connie Fox's exhibition at Danese/Corey from March 21 to April 19, 2014, presents three distinct bodies of work inspired by Sammy's Beach in East Hampton. The show features recent paintings, black-and-white acrylic constructions, and detailed ink and charcoal drawings from her Weeds series. Fox, who has lived in the Hamptons since 1980 after discovering the area through Elaine de Kooning, approaches the beach as her personal Mont Sainte Victoire rather than a topographical subject. Her work combines abstract expressionist gestures with postmodern disruption, creating complex compositions that reference artists like Philip Guston and Cy Twombly while maintaining her unique touch. The exhibition marks her first collaboration with Danese/Corey gallery. Fox's connection to Sammy's Beach spans four decades, transforming this public beach into what the article suggests could become a pilgrimage site for art lovers. Her artistic responses to the environment trigger memories of her Colorado childhood, described by biographer Joyce Beckenstein as recalling the land's "bony structure." The artist's intellectual fearlessness manifests in works that confound expectations of balance and scale, as seen in Sammy's Beach XIV, 2014. Fox's career includes an extended series of paintings inspired by Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, further connecting her beach motif to literary memory. The gallery is located at 511 West 22 Street in New York City.