Hayground Students Mark Time With Artist Alice Hope In 'Aeon' On View At Kathryn Markel Gallery

Beginning in September 2018, Hayground School students in Bridgehampton worked alongside artist-in-residence Alice Hope to collectively create a cumulative sculpture that marks time longitudinally over the year in a succession of 24 Fridays.

Their artistic collaboration culminates in a public viewing of “Aeon,” which will be on view at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in Bridgehampton on Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5. An opening reception will take place at the gallery (2418 Montauk Highway) from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Each hour the students worked with Ms. Hope was an experiential happening that, over the months, aggregated into a 24-hour period. In this “day,” the group assembled the work with the goal of turning intangible and indefinite time into something tangible.

Entitled “Aeon,” the immersive art project was exploratory, performative, and conceptual with its makers doing the same activity while working toward one goal.

“Making the project with Hayground students modeled democratic social practice in that at every stage of development/age, the same simple activity was done together joining effort and intention,” explained Ms. Hope in a statement. “In this way, the piece is emblematic of a meta-handholding, and its process emblematic of a quilting bee.

Ms. Hope, a former Hayground teacher and parent, was named the 2018 “Woman to Watch” for New York by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She holds an M.F.A. from Yale University, and shows her work at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Manhattan. Locally, Ms. Hope has created numerous public and residential commissions including a large-scale magnetic installation for the Parrish Museum at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk entitled “Under the Radar.” In 2018, she had a one-person show at East Hampton’s Guild Hall, and this summer the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. will have three of her installations on view.

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