Southampton - The Parrish Art Museum has announced some upcoming events.

The Parrish Art Museum is presenting "Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind's Eye." Among the more than 50 works in the exhibition are the monumentally-scaled wrinkle finish paint on steel "Tropical Tan" (1967-1968); the seminal crude oil, paper, and chipboard installation Intersection (1971); the remarkable shaped canvases such as" I am Pascal" (1986); and the recent watercolor on Dura-Lar works, including "Three Point Manifold" (2008). To underline the continuity of Rockburne's career, the exhibition installation will follow a nonlinear trajectory, emphasizing the themes and variations that appear and reappear through the work. Groupings will highlight these affinities while underscoring the artist's meticulous explorations of surface, transparency, and permutation - all essential investigations in the process of her art-making.

In a recent interview, Rockburne said, "The way art works for me is a combination of thought, research, intuition, and very hard work. I don't think things out in words; instead I see it in my mind's eye." Her vision has been informed by such wide-ranging sources as mathematics, Renaissance art, astronomy, archeology, and philosophy, among others. Mathematics has been an especially persistent component of her work. According to Anfam, "Underpinning Rockburne's early maneuvers and continuing as a leitmotif through her output to the present is a fixation, sparked by [mathemetician] Max Dehn at Black Mountain, on an array of mathematical systems and theories, ranging from topology and set theory to the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers and other, more esoteric scientific fields of inquiry. Although these suggest a daunting obstacle to the nonspecialist viewer, Rockburne stresses that scientific expertise is unnecessary to appreciate what she attains: 'The work is a visual experience. You don't have to know the composition of water to swim in it.'"

Born and raised in Montreal, Rockburne received classical training there at the École des Beaux-Arts and later at the Montreal Museum School. Beginning in 1950 she attended Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, where she studied painting with Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov, and Esteban Vicente; dance under Merce Cunningham; and music with John Cage, in addition to her studies with Dehn. Among her fellow students were Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and John Chamberlain. When she moved to New York, she participated in early dance and performance pieces with Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Carolee Schneemann, among many others. Rockburne's work, with the use of materials such as sheet metal, chipboard, and crude oil, began to gain wide attention in New York in the late 1960s; in 1971 she had her first solo exhibition at the famed Bykert Gallery. While she now lives in New York City full time, Rockburne maintained a home on the East End for 15 years.

Rockburne's work is in more than 100 public and private collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally for more than 40 years. Her list of honors includes the National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award in Art; a Guggenheim Fellowship; and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The exhibition catalogue will include essays by Alicia Longwell; Stéphane Aquin, Curator of Contemporary Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal); Anfam; and Robert Lawlor, author of "Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice."

The exhibition will travel to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where it will be on view from November 3, 2011 through January 29, 2012. The opening of the museum's new pavilion for Canadian Art occasions this long overdue look at Rockburne's entire career in the city of her birth.

The presentation of "Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind's Eye" and its accompanying programs are made possible, in part, with generous support from Agnes Gund, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Dina Recanati, C.A.L. Foundation, The Dedalus Foundation, Inc., Barbara J. Slifka, Georgia Welles, Jacqueline Brody, James Goodman, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Barbara Grodd, Penny Dammann Johnston-Foote, Michael A. Rubenstein, Gillis MacGil Addison, the Herman Goldman Foundation, Hobart Betts, Martin S. Weinstein, and one anonymous donor.

 • Klaus Kertess, curator, art historian, gallerist, and writer, will discuss his new book, "Seen, Written: Selected Essays," on Saturday, June 25, 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum. In the illustrated talk, Kertess will discuss the book in general as well as focusing on two essays drawn from exhibitions he curated at the Parrish, Marin in Oil and Sea Change. A book signing will follow. The lecture is free for Parrish members, $10 for nonmembers. Kertess has been an influential and forward-thinking presence in the art world for more than 40 years. In 1966 he founded the Bykert Gallery, where he represented such artists as Chuck Close, Ralph Humphrey, Brice Marden, and Dorothea Rockburne. Three decades later, he curated the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Kertess was a Robert Lehman Curator at the Parrish Art Museum and is now an Honorary Trustee.

'Seen, Written,' published by Gregory R. Miller & Co., collects Kertess's critical works from the past 30 years, including essays on Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, John Chamberlain, Vija Celmins, Chris Ofili, and Matthew Ritchie. Each essay is accompanied by full-color reproductions.

A new film of the Bolshoi Ballet's production of "Swan Lake" will screen Sunday, June 26, 2 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum as part of its ongoing Ballet in Cinema program. The film runs three hours, with one intermission. Tickets are $12 for Parrish members, $15 for nonmembers. Premiered in Moscow in 1877, with music by Tchaikovsky, the original production was choreographed by Julius Reisinger. Most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet in at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

The new Bolshoi "Swan Lake" has been choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich after Petipa, Ivanov, and Alexander Gorsky. According to Emerging Pictures' opera and ballet programmer Christiana Little, "The battle between white and black swan unfolds with savage grace in 'Swan Lake.' Tchaikovsky's haunting music traces the steps of prima ballerina Mariya Aleksandrova as she dances both Odette and Odile in this definitive production from the Bolshoi Ballet."

 • "Così Fan Tutte," one of Mozart's most beloved operas, will screen at the Parrish Art Museum Sunday, July 3, at 2 p.m. This production, directed by Jonathan Miller, opened the Royal Opera House's 2010-2011 season last September. Tickets to the 200-minute program are $14 for Parrish members, $17 for nonmembers.

"Così Fan Tutte" concerns two young ladies, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and their lovers, Ferrando and Guglielmo. Don Alfonso, a cynical bachelor, makes a bet with the two men that their girlfriends would easily fall in love with someone else. After the ladies are told their lovers have been ordered to the front lines, Ferrando and Guglielmo disguise themselves and proceed to woo each others' girl friends. The women resist at first, but after many twists and turns they fall for their new admirers. In the end the girls realize they have been duped, but all is forgiven.

While originally set in 18th-century Naples, Miller's production updates the story to the present day. Fashions and technology have changed since Mozart's time, but human behavior remains as fickle and manipulative as ever. Thomas Allen, who plays Don Alfonso, has been a leading figure in British musical life since the early 1970s. Gramophone Magazine called him "the best British lyric baritone singing in opera since the war." He has become renowned for his wide range of roles and recordings and is a draw in opera and as a recitalist across the world.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.

About The Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum is located in Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the Museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island's East End, one of America's most vital creative centers. Since the mid-1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art gallery into an important art museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from the nineteenth century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses important collections of works by the American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and the post-war American realist Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On July 19, 2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building designed by internationally acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the Museum's current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection. The new building is expected to open in summer 2012.