Southampton - With Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End, the Parrish Art Museum has redefined its juried exhibition to better reflect the Museum's core purpose of celebrating the artistic legacy and unique, creative character of the region.

For the invitational exhibition, which will open April 19 and remain on view through June 21, the Museum solicited online entries from local artists and received more than 260 responses. Nine prominent East End artists were invited to review the submissions, make studio visits, and ultimately select a single finalist each. The selected artists live in Amagansett, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Southold, Springs, Wainscott, and Water Mill.

Lucy Winton: Rabbit Tricking Wolf #3, 2008, Ink and pencil on Indian handmade paper, 30 x 20, Collection of the Artist.

The jurors and their selected artists are, respectively: John Alexander and Jessica Benjamin; Michael Combs and Randall Rosenthal; April Gornik and Lucy Winton; Mary Heilmann and Frazer P. Dougherty; Richard Kalina and Peter Dayton; Michelle Stuart and Jody Pinto; Donald Sultan and Stephen Laub; John Torreano and Kevin Teare; Joe Zucker and Ellen Wiener

By inviting artists to select other artists, encouraging studio visits, and presenting jurors' and their selected artists' work together, 'Mixed Greens' reinforces the museum's mission of helping foster a sense of community in keeping with the area's distinctive artistic heritage. The selected artists work in a variety of mediums and styles, ranging from Stephen Laub's use of historical images and everyday objects to Jody Pinto's integration of art into architecture and landscape architecture, to Peter Dayton's panel paintings echoing the work of such preeminent American artistic icons as Barnett Newman and Kenneth Noland. Also included are Frazer P. Dougherty's hard edged abstractions, Randall Rosenthal's trompe l'oeil objects hand-carved and painted from single pieces of wood, and Jessica Benjamin's politically charged landscapes. Ellen Wiener's paintings are inspired by illuminated manuscripts, Kevin Teare expressively blends abstraction and figuration, and Lucy Winton creates suggestively surreal portraits and landscapes.

The invitational exhibition will open on April 19 and remain on view through June 21.

The opening reception, Saturday, April 18, will begin at 6 p.m. with a panel moderated by Museum director Terrie Sultan and including three jurors and the artists they selected: John Alexander and Jessica Benjamin, Michelle Stuart and Jody Pinto, and Donald Sultan and Stephen Laub. A cocktail reception will follow during which the xframes - an experimental punk band featuring participating artist Peter Dayton, Stan Stokowski, and Jameson Ellis will perform. The panel discussion and reception are open to the public. Museum members are admitted free, non-members for $7. In addition, selected artists will deliver gallery talks about their work on three Saturdays at 2 p.m. in May: Jessica Benjamin, Peter Dayton, and Frazer P. Dougherty on May 9; Stephen Laub, Jody Pinto, and Randall Rosenthal on May 16; and Kevin Teare, Ellen Wiener, and Lucy Winton on May 30. The gallery talks are free with museum admission.

Jessica Benjamin: Inside the Green Zone, Baghdad, 2008, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48, Collection of the Artist Images provided by Parrish Art Museum

Four films by or about East End writers and artists will be screened during the exhibition: Capote on May 8, Pollock on May 15, "The Door in the Floor" on May 22, and "Before Night Falls" on May 29. All screenings are at 7 p.m. Friday evenings and cost $5 for Museum members, $7 for nonmembers.

'Mixed Greens' is made possible, in part, by generous grants from Dorothy Lichtenstein, Barbara Slifka, and Suffolk County, under the auspices of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Steve Levy, County Executive, and with additional support from The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation, Lisa and Ciaran O'Kelly, and Susan and Louis Meisel.