Andrea Cote Celebrates Nature in the 2024 Parrish Road

The Parrish Art Museum’s 2024 Parrish Road Show installation will be “Andrea Cote: To Belong to the World.” The exhibition will run through October 14, at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton and opens with a reception on Saturday, September 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. Other events will be offered during the run of the show, which is organized by Kaitlin Halloran, assistant curator and publications coordinator, and Brianna L. Hernández, assistant curator.

For this year’s Parrish Road Show, Cote was been invited to create a site-specific exhibition at Bridge Gardens. Her installation will feature cyanotype-printed fabrics, some suspended as banners from trees and others installed with bamboo structures reaching approximately 15 feet in height. Cote’s installation will complement and highlight various features of the landscape. Cote has spent time over the past year visiting Bridge Gardens, collecting holly leaves, ferns, bamboo and other natural materials to converge both elements of nature and the human form in celestial and cellular patterns celebrating interconnectedness. These visits have been planned to coincide with the different seasons of the year to ensure an annual view of the plant life of the garden.

The cyanotype process is recognizable by its varying shades of blue and is the early photographic process of using light exposure to capture shadow and translucency. One notable installation will include banners in the Rose Garden that track the sun’s path throughout the year, Cote represents this trajectory by producing prints on specific celestial events. Begun on the winter solstice and exposed on auspicious dates throughout the year, this circle will be completed onsite mid-exhibition during the autumn equinox.

The public is invited to rediscover Bridge Gardens through this immersive installation, which supports the local community with its multi-purpose outdoor classroom, demonstration garden, and community garden.

Andrea Cote is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hampton Bays. To highlight her commitment to the site-specificity of her new work, Cote will lead community workshops during the exhibition, engaging participants with both the grounds at Bridge Gardens and her unique printing practice. Programming will include an Artist Talk at the Parrish on Saturday, September 21, at 1 p.m., an Autumn Equinox Program on Sunday, September 22, at 11 a.m. and an Autumn Open House at Bridge Gardens on Saturday, October 5, from noon to 3 p.m.

Now in its 13th year, Parrish Road Show is the museum’s annual off-site project designed to encourage engagement and interaction between artists and the communities beyond the museum’s walls.

Bridge Gardens is at 36 Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton. The gardens are open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.