J. Mackey Gallery Collection Catalog

ABOUT THE GALLERY J. Mackey brings original works to the Hamptons community.

The gallery represents emerging as well as established artists and is committed to fostering the impact art has to aesthetically enhance spaces, provoke thought and stimulate the senses.

Reflecting the spirit of the Hamptons as a place of serenity, natural beauty, and vibrant colors, J. Mackey Gallery strives to ensure the artwork represented is accessible to the public while creating an inviting and unique visitor experience and place of reflection.

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ARTHUR PINAJIAN | BELLPORT / NEW YORK

Arthur Pinajian (1914-1999) an Armenian American painter, was a contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Pinajian’s work is considered a major contribution to the abstract expressionist movement in Long Island and the art world at large.

His collection includes vibrant lyrical landscapes, mid-century abstractions and striking figurative compositions. Pinajian fine-tuned his skills at the Art Students

League in New York City and participated in the Woodstock art scene of the 1960’s. In his later years Pinajian was inspired by the extraordinary coastal light and the peaceful and serene beauty of the East End. His work is collected by patrons of the abstract expressionist movement and those who want to preserve the artistic legacy of Long Island. His work can be found in major collections across the country. Though he died in obscurity, his work was found and preserved shortly after his death and received great attention in the art world.

No. 3883 • 1964 • oil on canvas • 29 x 49 in.

SOLD | No. 4433 • 1960 • oil on canvas • 25 x 34 in.

No. D146 • 1960 • oil on canvas • 10 x 12 in.

SOLD | No. D101 • 1963 • oil on canvas • 30 x 40 in.

No. D41 • 1965 oil on canvas 45 x 35 in.

No. 3721 • 1993 • oil on canvas • 25 x 35 in.

No. D49 • 1962 • oil on canvas • 26.5 x 48.5 in.

No. 174 • 1984 • oil on canvas • 14.5 x 19 in.

No. 275 • oil on canvas • 25 x 29 in.

PHYLLIS BAKER HAMMOND | HAMPTONS / NEW YORK Celebrated Hamptons artist Phyllis Baker Hammond’s artistic career has spanned seven decades. She started by sculpting in clay and translating the ethereal quality of her ceramics to bronze. In more recent years, she shifted focus to experimenting in metal, innovating abstract works that can be displayed in the home or outdoors. In 2017, five of her large-scale works were created for a feature installation in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City. In addition, Hammond won

an award for her work in creating a dazzling orange enameled 10-foot steel sculpture in Japan’s Ube Tokiwa Museum’s International Biennale sculpture competition.

The “Museum of Greenery, Flowers and Sculpture Prize” was presented in Ube in October 2009, for Hammond’s Redefining Space.

Hammond uses an improvisational method to create her colorful sculptures from sheets of metal that are later bent, hammered and then powder-coated in brightly colored paint.

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Gateway powder coated aluminum 90 x 46 x 46 in.

Alighted • powder coated aluminum • 17 x 24 x 16 in.

Phyllis Baker Hammond at J. Mackey Gallery East Hampton with a model of her sculpture “Redefining Space” which won the Ube Tokiwa Museum’s International Biennale sculpture competition and was installed in Ube, Japan.

Blue Dimension powder coated aluminum • 52 x 48 x 4 in.

Convergence powder coated aluminum 19 x 27 x 16 in.

Bird’s Nest powder coated aluminum 96 x 60 x 60 in.

Thunderbird • powder coated aluminum • 48 x 30 x 24 in.

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Raven Crest • powder coated aluminum • 32 x 12 x 14 in.

Veronica Lake • house paint on canvas • 4 x 3 ft.

Ruse • Mixed media paper and house paint on canvas • 40 x 40 in.

ELIZA GEDDES | LONG ISLAND / NEW YORK Eliza Geddes is an abstract painter living on Long Island, New York. She is known for her unique painting technique which involves the use of unexpected mediums including house paint and vintage newsprint. The interaction and repetition of shape and texture provide entry points with which to navigate the work. Instead of a paint brush, Geddes uses a palette knife to literally carve images from layers of paint on the canvas. Her technique creates intricate textural details throughout her compositions.

With subjects ranging from abstraction to landscapes to portraiture of iconic figures, her work is immediately identifiable.

Her work has been exhibited in prestigious galleries including, Findlay Galleries, Manhasset, New York, Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, Franklin

Riehl man Fine Art, New York City, Holster Projects in London as well as her J. Mackey Gallery exhibition “Icons & Imagery” in East Hampton and J. Mackey Gallery solo show at Well Made Home in Palm Beach and currently on display in Saddlestring, Wyoming.

Geddes received an MA in Art from New York University. A favored artist among prominent designers, her work has been featured in publications including Elle Decor, Cottages & Gardens, London’s Matchbox Magazine, and Flavorpill. Her work is also in several private collections across the country, including the homes of A-list celebrities, The Colony Hotel and a commissioned portrait for a world renowned leader in finance for their global headquarters.

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SOLD • Billie II house paint on canvas 5 x 4 ft.

Elk • house paint on canvas • 3 x 3 ft.

Leopard II • house paint on canvas • 4 x 4 ft.

Serengeti • house paint on canvas • 4 x 4 ft.

Hibiscus II • house paint on canvas • 5 x 4 ft.

Swish • house paint on canvas • 4 x 4 ft.

Twiggy III house paint on canvas • 4 x 3 ft.

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Back Around • acrylic and oil pastel on canvas • 20 x 20 in.

SOLD | Take Me Away acrylic and oil pastel on canvas • 40 x 30 in.

Patience • acrylic, oil pastel and charcoal on canvas • 30 x 40 in.

Photo: Village Design Studio

All Around Us • acrylic, oil pastel and charcoal on canvas • 48 x 60 in.

EMILY BROWN | OXFORD / MISSISSIPPI Emily Brown’s passion for art began at an early age with a love for pencil drawing and pen and ink. After earning her BFA at Mississippi State University, she began a career in graphic design before moving to Charleston, SC and refocusing on painting.

Working in layers with bold colors and pure lines using a mix of media, Emily creates her unique works of art. Emily is a member of

the Charleston Artist Collective and represented by J. Mackey Gallery in East Hampton, NY. Her art has recently been featured in the HGTV series “Breaking Bland” with designer Mary Welch Fox. Her work is in private collections across the country and has been shown at OSilas Gallery in Bronxville, NY and included in the Hampton Designer Showhouse, Coastal Living Idea Showhouse and southeastern Showhouse. After years of capturing the coastal colors, Emily has returned to her home of Oxford, Mississippi and imbues her work with southern charm and the serene hues of southern sunsets.

Painted Ladies • oil on linen • 66 x 60 in.

Orange Blue • oil on linen • 60 x 66 in.

DON SWANSON | WESTCHESTER / NEW YORK For more than four decades, Don Swanson called The Frick Collection in New York City his professional home, rising to become the institution’s Chief of Collections Preservation and Graphic Designer. He retired from The Frick in 2017. Throughout his multi-faceted career at the Frick, Swanson pursued his private passion for painting.

Swanson’s paintings are abstract, contemplative and vibrant and about the imagination where the viewer discovers something on the canvas and supplies the narrative. Swanson says his paintings celebrate the “joy of color and surfaces.” He likes to work in layers of glazes. The finished effect creates a sense of depth and ambiguous space.

Red • oil on linen • 66 x 60 in.

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Hale Eddie • oil on linen • 66 x 60 in.

SOLD | Cobalt oil on linen • 66 x 60 in.

Shoe Fish • oil on paper • 30 x 22.5 in.

Equilibre I • resin and acrylic • 22.5 x 6.5 x 7 in.

Equilibre II • resin and acrylic • 25 x 6.5 x 7 in.

HELDER BATISTA | BORDEAUX / FRANCE

SOLD | Jardin • resin and acrylic • 26.5 x 6.5 x 7 in.

in his own way this mythical and mystical place. His creations reflect what he imagines those sculptures would be today and

Born in Paris, where he took classes at the Beaux-arts, Helder

in the process, re-envisions color, form, materials to express the

Batista, takes a multidisciplinary approach to his work,

current moment. Though his artistic work is often ambiguous and

apprehending different materials and techniques to accomplish

symbolic, he asserts that; “Art is a freedom of expression of which

his vision. Using resin, inclusion, concrete, wood, neon, oil and

only the artist limits the borders” He currently lives and works in

acrylic, Batista is concerned with the primitive aspects of sculpture,

Bordeaux, France.

focusing on redefining iconic symbols of the past. He revisits

Ascension • resin and acrylic • 29.5 x 7 x 7 in.

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BAT I STA Gravité • resin and acrylic • 26 x 7 x 7 in.

Skinny Dip • oil, gel, paper and lacquer on linen • 36 x 36 in.

Skin Divers V. II • oil, gel and paper on linen • 18 x 24 in.

Mick Rock’s Debbie Harry with Blue Lace oil, gel, lacquer and paper on linen Collaboration with photographer Mick Rock 72 x 48 in.

What’s Cooking? oil, wallpaper and cut paper on wood panel 60 x 48 in.

Braaasss and Stripes • oil, gel, and gold leaf on linen • 60 x 60 in.

ELLEN BALL | NEW YORK / NEW YORK Living and working in New York City since 1994, Ellen has been inspired by the city and it’s many industries, cultures, and the energy itself.

Her background as a graphic designer and illustrator for the beauty industry influence her work and are evident in the choices of imagery and application.

Ellen makes large-scale mixed media paintings rendered on Belgian linen, often featuring iconic forms, distilled to their abstract minimal shapes, lines and contours, or photographic simplicity. She combines elaborate patterns, inspired uses of metal leaf, cutting, collage and oil paints to uncover surprising juxtapositions.

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Night Fall • oil on linen • 13 x 16 in.

Now What • oil on linen • 53 x 73 in.

CYNTHIA HARTLING | SANTA FE / NEW MEXICO After many years in New York, Cynthia now lives in New Mexico, inspired by its slower pace, light, high desert plains, temperate weather, mountains and indigenous cultures. Recent exhibitions and projects include SITE Santa Fe, silver linings, AXLE CONTEMPORARY, Be Counted-Vote, Santa Fe, NM; Jason McCoy Gallery, Drawing Challenge IX and PIEROGI, POWER Ts 2020, New York, NY; and Parlor, Postcards from the Edge, COVID-19 project, Los Angeles, CA. Cynthia’s work is in numerous private collections and has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including the Brattleboro Museum, Wave Hill, Brooklyn Museum,

Berkshire Museum, PIEROGI, N3 Project Space, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Centotto, Sideshow, and Beverley Knowles Fine Art. Cynthia is the recipient of a Milton and Sally Michel Avery endowed residency for visual arts at Yaddo; a Carlo Cego Residency Fellowship at BAU Institute; a Barbara White endowed painting award at Vermont Studio Center; and visual art residencies at Fundación Valparaiso; Jentel; Art Farm; Brush Creek Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Reviews of her work have appeared in billboard, Delicious Line Inc., After Vasari, The Brooklyn Rail, artcritical.com, and NY Arts Magazine. She received a BFA from Cooper Union and also studied at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Urbino, Italy and SUNY, New Paltz.

Dusty Francisco oil on linen • 16 x 14 in.

Watering Hole • oil on linen • 13 x 15 in.

Bits and Pieces • oil on linen • 17 x 16 in.

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H ART L IN G Falling Apart • oil on linen • 17 x 15 in.

Color of Clarity • ink on clayboard • 36 x 36 in.

Sunkissed Reef • ink on clayboard • 36 x 36 in.

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SOLD | Glimpse ink on clayboard 36 x 48 in.

Above Below and Through • ink on clayboard • 15 x 30 in.

Summer Currents I & II Diptych • ink on clayboard • 31.5 x 31.5 in. each

LYNDAL VERMETTE | BRONXVILLE / NEW YORK Lyndal Vermette has honed her skills in a variety of media to create techniques that are truly her own through her use of inks, acrylic inks and at times, incorporating a hand poured resin finish to her work. Vermette’s inspiration of water and fluid coastal colors are captured in her biomorphic compositions.

Ethereal and serene, they often embody the magnificent Australian coastline that filled her formative years, and continues to inspire her work.

Vermette was born into an artistic and adventurous Australian family. Her mother was a founder of Nakina Fine Art formerly named Dabbles on Days Gallery in Brisbane. Her father, a helicopter enthusiast and pilot, founded the celebrated “Rotary Art Show” in Brisbane over 40 years ago, which continues today.

When Vermette wasn’t flying over the breathtaking Australian landscape with her father, she was refining her artistic skills under the example of women artists represented by her mother’s gallery. Vermette studied performing arts at Queensland University of Technology as well as a Graduate Degree in Education. She went on to teach dramatic arts in London and pursue a graduate degree at the University of London.

After traveling the world for over 10 years and teaching dramatic arts in London, she and her family settled in New York City where she has focused on painting for the last 15 years. With well over 125 paintings sold internationally to collectors from Australia, Europe and the US, her work has become synonymous with understated expression and chic coastal style.

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