Greenport Harbor Brewing Company: Totems and Transforms

On Sunday, June 12^th, 1 to 3 p.m., at GHBC’s Peconic grounds, 42155 Main Rd, there will be the launching and celebration of Scott's Ice Boat sculpture series. 
 
A Greenport local since the late ‘70s, Arden Scott has worked primarily as a sculptor, incorporating her lifelong hobby of sailing and the seaport aesthetics of her surroundings into her work. Her Ice Boat sculptures, which will be on display in the open field at 42155 Main Rd. Peconic, are strikingly minimalist and abstract, evoking the curve and contour of the ships and schooners that populated the harbors of the East End. The space that surrounds these large-scale sculptures are intrinsically important to the piece.  With whimsical dynamism and colorful geometrics, Scott’s vertical sculptures, which she refers to as ‘totems,’ bring a new perspective to abstractionism.  These floor-standing works are constructed from raw steel and materials salvaged from local Greenport shipyards and donated by close friends and family. These works were created with the personal intention to embrace and bond with joy.  Additionally, at The Gallery at Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, 234 Carpenter Street, will debut Arden’s new works on paper. These saturated, highly geometric charcoal drawings are, according to the artist, “My way of visual thinking, many manifestations are in this set of drawings. The thinking is about shapes and the physical heft of the steel. The large drawings I do on the floor - the very physical act of drawing enhances materiality.”  Arden Scott was featured in the New York Times when she built a 28-foot, classic schooner from scratch in the 1980s. She earned a Guggenheim Fellowship Grant and a Pollock-Krasner Grant. 
 
“Totems and Transforms’ will open on Friday, June 10^th from 6 to 8 p.m., featuring live music by Dinni Keg at 234 Carpenter Street in Greenport. On Sunday, June 12^th, 1 to 3 p.m., at GHBC’s Peconic grounds, 42155 Main Rd, there will be the launching and celebration of Scott's Ice Boat sculpture series. 
 
“Totems and Transforms” will be on display until August at Greenport Harbor Brewing Company’s flagship location at  234 Carpenter Street in Greenport. 11944 and 42155 Main Road in Peconic, NY 11958