Our Hamptons

The Signa Gallery, East Hampton 1957-60.


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Esperanza and Irwin travel back to 1957-1960 East Hampton.  Despite the death of Jackson Pollock the year before, the Abstract Expressionist movement was thriving.  Yet the East End was a more conservative place back then, and the Art displayed was more staid landscapes than abstraction.  At least until the artists Elizabeth Parker, John Little and Alfonso Ossorio decided to change that.  Taking over the space at 53 Main Street from the defunct Maidstone Market, the Signa Gallery was born.  And in the course of four seasons, the Signa was instrumental not only in charting a new direction for Art and galleries on eastern Long Island, but amplifying the an American Art Movement arguably born in Springs. 

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