Amagansett - The Gallery at Sylvester & Co. At Home presents famous playwright, author, and photographer, Joe Pintauro, showcasing his newest exhibition "The Summer Kingdom" from June 25 to July 25, 2011. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 154 Main Street in Amagansett and mimosas will be served on Sunday, June 26 starting at 11 a.m. at Sylvester & Co., 103 Main Street in Sag Harbor.

According to Pintauro, "I've been photographing on East End beaches for the past two winters and summers. I see the beach in summer as a kind of nation, a freshly constituted realm under a unique governance each year, a floating world of freedom from the land mass, from ourselves and the exterior rattling world. Josef Pieper's "Leisure the Basis of Culture," a book from my college days, speaks of how once man is free from economic necessity, and even despite economic necessity, all that still matters in the end is art, beauty, and love."

Continuing Pintauro adds "With this in mind, I photographed our beaches and their life-guards through a lens of Romanticism; stressing the landscape, its primitivism and the individualism of its life-guards who oversee a thin stretch of sand before a massive ocean, a place which belongs equally to every man, woman and child. Beaches, especially out here, near ponds and of soft warm sand can be said to be a summer kingdom floating in timelessness between heaven and earth, a place of sun, wind and water, ruled by Olympian sun Gods, men and women of beauty, prowess and responsibility, who sit high on thrones, overlooking a dangerously beautiful magical world, the kingdom of summer."

For additional information, call Sylvester & Co At Home, 631-267-9777 or email info@sylvesterathome.com.