{"id":97544,"date":"2025-07-27T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97544\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:05:29","slug":"in-newport-a-suite-of-new-paintings-by-cy-gavin-consider-the-sea-and-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97544\/","title":{"rendered":"In Newport, a Suite of New Paintings by Cy Gavin Consider the Sea\u2014and the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening in Newport, a small, well-heeled crowd\u2014including Carolyn Rafaelian, Jamie and Monique Coleman, Calvin Tomkins, Alex Da Corte, The Paris Review\u2019s Emily Stokes, Karina Sokolovsky of Sotheby\u2019s, and Kern Maass, president of IYRS School of Technology &amp; Trades\u2014assembled in Restoration Hall, the 18,000-square-foot home to the Boatbuilding &amp; Restoration program at IYRS, for a dinner in honor of artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/met-gala-2025-centerpiece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cy Gavin<\/a>. The following day, \u201cCy Gavin: Seven Paintings,\u201d an exhibition of new, site-responsive works organized by <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.artandnewport.org\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.artandnewport.org\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artandnewport.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art&amp;Newport<\/a> (the brainchild of longtime Vogue contributor Dodie Kazanjian), would open there, remaining on view\u2014at no charge to the public\u2014for five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Cy Gavin<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tyler Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Born in Pittsburgh but based in the Hudson Valley, Gavin has long vested his work with an attention to the natural world, riffing on landscape and cosmology in his powerfully gestural paintings. The ones up in Newport are no different, at once inspired by IYRS\u2019s immediate surroundings (Restoration Hall sits right on Newport Harbor), by the ancient practice of celestial navigation, and by what happens at the school on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>On his first visit to the campus, some six months ago, Gavin peered down from the catwalk in Restoration Hall, watching IYRS\u2019s students learn to build boats by restoring old wooden ones. Invited to do with the space what he liked (other Art&amp;Newport shows have transformed the historic Isaac Bell House a half-mile east, or the Belmont Chapel in the Island Cemetery), he knew quickly that he wanted to embrace the context: \u201cIt was really difficult to imagine anything in that space that wasn\u2019t related to a boat,\u201d Gavin says, speaking by phone from Newport. \u201cI think it would be lost in the space, too. And that was the point of coming: to get a sense of the venue, the orientation of it on the water, how it related to the town, how it related to where the sun sets.\u201d In the end, his project became about \u201cusing the space to activate the paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Installation view of Cy Gavin: Seven Paintings, presented by Art&amp;Newport.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Michael Osean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday evening in Newport, a small, well-heeled crowd\u2014including Carolyn Rafaelian, Jamie and Monique Coleman, Calvin Tomkins, Alex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,63964,25668,67,132,68,1940],"class_list":{"0":"post-97544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-storytypereporting-story","13":"tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114926998256930737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}