Past Exhibitions
Abstract Angularity:
The Artistry of Vincent Quatroche Sr.
A Collaboration of The Jazz Loft and The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
Fall 2025
Born on the South Fork of Long Island and ultimately settled on the North Fork, Vincent
Quatroche (1921-2011) was a gifted artist who lived at the intersection of music and
visual art. His father was a musician in an early jazz band on Long Island and Vincent’s
interactions with the band influenced him throughout his life. Many of Vincent’s paintings
show this musical influence in subject and action and are combined with a sophisticated
use of color with cubist and abstract expressionist influences.
All the works shown here were acquired directly from the artist's studio, courtesy of his widow Mrs. Edna Quatroche, and are now a part of The Jazz Loft Archives and the personal collection of Jazz Loft founder and historian, Tom Manuel. The Jazz Loft has the largest collection of Quattroche works in existence, numbering just over 50 pieces, which are permanently on display in The Jazz Loft’s main performance space, appropriately named Club Q. The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is pleased to have collaborated with the Jazz Loft to exhibit these paintings at the Avram Gallery throughout the Fall 2025 semester.
Nature Writing & Photography Exhibition
May 8, 2026
This one-day exhibit and event featured work created by students in the Nature Writing and Photography class (SUS332), an interdisciplinary inquiry and practice into nature writing and photography. Students learned about the tradition of western and non-western nature writing and photography, gaining a full analytic understanding of the field while practicing the skills of nature writing and photography. They kept an extensive nature journal and became familiar with current ID methodologies, as well as the tools and techniques of nature photography.
The East End: In the Abstract
Highlights from the permanent collection of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
January 28 - August 28, 2025
Background
For nearly a century, Long Island's East End has been a sanctuary for abstract artists.
From these shores, they produced a new alphabet; symbols belonging to a universal
language of line, color, shape, and gesture. In 1944, two of the leading figures
within the Abstract Expressionist movement, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, traded
their Manhattan apartment and loft studios tor a rustic farmhouse and barn studio
in the Springs, a rural hamlet of East Hampton. In the coming years, throngs of abstract
artists would relocate to Eastern Long Island or establish seasonal studios here.
No single aspect of the region attracted these artists. Likewise, no two abstractions
are exactly alike. Each gesture is uniquely that of its maker, and each impression
left on the viewer is specific to their own personal context and perspective.
Works
The works featured in this exhibition, highlights from the permanent collection of Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, celebrate some of the abstract artists who lived and worked on the East End. Though not comprehensive, these paintings, prints, and drawings suggest something of the variety of abstract art produced here during the mid-to-late 20th century. Works by the recently departed Joe Zucker and East Hampton-based painter Susan Vecsey exemplify how this tradition persists into the contemporary moment.
Artists
James Brooks (1906-1992)
Herman Cherry (1909-1992)
Perle Fine (1905-1988)
Helen Hoie (1911-2000)
Lee Krasner (1908-1984)
John Little (1907-1984)
Joseph Meert (1905-1989)
Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990)
Charlotte Park (1918-2010)
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
David Slivka (1914-2010)
Syd Solomon (1917-2004)
Ronald J. Stein (1930-2000)
Susan Vecsey (b. 1971)
Joe Zucker (1941-2024)
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Lovefeast
June 21 - August 4, 2024
Collaborators Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux Valdez examine embodiment through the triple
lens of medicine, religious mythology, and their love for each other, mis/applying
the ideas, instruments, and/or experience of each in the portrayal of their own bodies.