More
than 400 people turned out for the grand opening reception of Wanda
Murphy’s premier solo show entitled “The
Connection” at Ezair Gallery on Main Street in Southampton.
The reception was by the Group for the South Fork, friends and
supporters that included Nicole Miller, Cynthia Rowley,
Debbie Bancroft, Douglas Hannant, Gillian Hearst-Shaw, Annie Churchill,
Tinsley Mortimer, Luigi Tadini, John Flanagan, Ann Colley, Mary
Walker and the Group’s President Bob DeLuca. Lydia
and Gillian Hearst-Shaw bought two of Murphy’s colorful,
linear paintings, which the artist says are a “celebration
of life." The abstract works the sisters purchased are entitled, “I
Think I Know” and “Stillness of My Heart”.
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Lydia
Hearst-Shaw, Wanda Murphy, and Gillian Hearst-Shaw
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Other attendees included Lisa Gastineau, Nina Griscom,
Anthony Todd, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Mai Harrison, Somers White,
Bettina
Zilkha,
Jackie and Francois Astier, Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, Luigi Tadini,
Gwen Rivers, Amanda Hearst and Winston Lapham, Christian
Currie and Kathryn Jennings, All My
Children’s Jacob
Young, Camille Duvall Hero, artist Michael Perez,
Melissa Berkelhammer, event planner Harriette
Rose Katz, lighting guru Bentley Meeker, Eva and
Brendon Dillon, Ann Washburn, Santiago Gonzalez, Campbell Robertson,
Nello Belan and models Ines Misan, Heidi Albertsen and Sonja
Wanda, the star
of the new Mac cosmetics ad campaign.
The reception was followed by dinner at Nello’s next door to
the gallery, the new outpost of Nello’s restaurant on Madison
Avenue. Proceeds from the sales of the artist’s works from
the run of the show are being donated to the Group for the South
Fork, the Hamptons only local professionally-staffed environmental
advocacy and education organization committed to the preservation
of natural resources in East Hampton, Southampton, and Shelter
Island since 1972. |
