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It is with great pleasure that we announce the 20th Annual Thanksgiving Collective, Breaking Bread presented by Tripoli Patterson & James Cruickshank. The exhibition will open with a reception for the 144 artists and our East End Community on Saturday, November 30th, from 4:00 to 9:00 pm, and will remain on view in Wainscott, NY until February 24, 2025.
Breaking Bread: November 30, 2025 – February 24, 2025, will feature works by John Alexander, Linda K Alpern, Vahakn Arslanian, Michael Avedon, Alice Aycock, Yevgeniya Baras, Andrey Bartenev, Jonathan Beer, Katherine Bernhardt, Ashley Bickerton, Todd Bienvenu, Ross Bleckner, Dianne Blell, Stefan Bondell, Katherine Bradford, David Bromley, Mark Cora-Mooroom Bungaree, Otis Hope Carey, Sue Carlson, Sylvia Channing, Micheal Chiarello, Matt Clark, Bob Colacello, Dan Colen, Lottie Consalvo, Scott Covert, Justin Crawford, Jennifer Cross, Scott Csoke, Quentin Curry, Lautaro Cuttica, Mira Dancy, Robert Dash, Verne Dawson, Willem de Kooning, Alice Dellal, Jeremy Dennis, Trefny Dix, Anh Duong, Sally Egbert, Sabra Moon Elliot, Jameson Ellis, Hannah Epstein, Ryan Estep, Sam Falls, Nick Farhi, Travis Fish, Herbie Fletcher, Roy Fowler, Connie Fox, Eric Freeman, Saskia Friedrich, Daniel Fuller, Rhys Gaetano, Félix Bonilla Gerena, Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel, Iván Girona, Ron Gorchov, Jeremy Grosvenor, Kurt Gumaer, Hiroyuki Hamada, Jeanette Hayes, Mary Heilmann, Juan Jose Heredia, Bengt Hokanson, Sven Hokanson, Alice Hope, Soren Hope, Judith Hudson, Genevieve Hudson-Price, Bjorn Iooss, Tara Israel, Lee Jaffe, Yung Jake, Marcus Jahmal, Deborah Katon, James Katsipis, Benjamin Keating, Sean Kinney, Laurie Lambrecht, Brianna Lance, Robyn Lea, Robert Longo, Melanie Luna, Brendon Lynch, Chuck Manion, Liz Markus, Kunle Martins, Dave Matterhorn, Dan McCarthy, Laith McGregor, Nick Mead, Angelbert Metoyer, Robert J. Miller, Lola Montes, Felicidad Moreno, Peter Ngo, Mamoun Nukumanu, Miles Partington, James de Pasquale, Matisse Patterson, Enoc Perez, Joel Perlman, Max Price, Jonathan Rajewski, Scott Reeder, Rene Ricard, Alexis Rockman, Rachel Rossin, Dominique Rousserie, Esther Ruiz, Mason Saltarrelli, Sally Saul, Mia Scarpa, Christina Schlesinger, Julian Schnabel, Enis Sefersah, Nathalie Shepherd, Bruce Sherman, Emmett Shine, Lucien Smith, Ned Smyth, Agathe Snow, Caroline Snow, Bosco Sodi, Keith Sonnier, Saul Steinberg, Gordon Stevenson, Billy Sullivan, Susan Tepper, José Luis Vargas, Claude Viallat, Igor Vishnyakov, Ross Watts, Nick Weber, Lauren West, Jerry Wilkerson, Lucy Winton, William Wood, Thomas Woodruff, Ozzy Wrong, Darius Yektai, Nico Yektai, and Almond Zigmund.
Looking back over the last two decades, now half of my life, many flashes of memories flutter through my mind. One person whose praises I’m inspired to sing is my godmother, Lisa de Kooning. She is an angel who’s shed the restraints of time, a teacher who makes the misfits feel wanted and cared about, a mother to three stunning and consciously attuned daughters, an animal whisperer of all breeds, a fighter, and my godmother, who introduced my Caribbean father to my North Carolinian (Amagansian since 1957) mother. She helped me sign my first lease on Jobs Lane in Southampton when the Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art was born in 2009, and along the way taught me parts of the art world that are unteachable. Thank you, Lisa, I dedicate Breaking Bread to you.
Someone recently asked me if I enjoyed my job. I told them today I loved it however, when asked initially it wasn’t as easy to answer. Now I see it as a responsibility. After accepting the title of this exhibition by Lola Montes while hanging by the pool the day after Vito and Helena’s stunning and time-stopping wedding, this year’s collective started to form. I looked over all the artists I had been given the honor of showing over these past two decades and started reaching out and reconnecting with everyone. With an overwhelming response, like Thich Nat Han says, “All of a sudden the right elements were there” and the exhibition began to manifest.
Now I have been given the responsibility of translating this visual assemblage of works created by these gifted souls who enabled my mission to exist, which I accept as a delight and an honor. The thought brings me back to 2nd grade when I was put into a speaking class to help with my stuttering. I reflect how lucky I am to have grown past that handicap and now given the gift to not only communicate with humans all over the globe, to be born to a mother who raised me and my siblings all over it. And I think of how many humans I’ve met where the convenience of speaking the same language wasn’t even there and instinctually, we learned to communicate nonetheless, with equal if not deeper understanding. I think art is about just that, learning how to communicate without speaking, without text, without language, without lawyers, without contracts, without lies, without insecurities. And with belief, with love, with vulnerability, with honesty, with inclusion, with leadership. It’s influencing every single person I cross paths with and every person that the Tripoli Gallery passes, to take a moment to stop and look at art. To go out of our way to see a show; because it is a gallery you like, an artist you know, a curator you listen to, a director you believe, can be anyone as long as you know they put everything they’ve got into it. To celebrate not only making, but collecting art. To become patrons to galleries and institutions who are as equally committed to exhibited artwork and making it accessible to all our fellow humans, as the artists whose work they are exhibiting. I am excited for the next chapters and decades to come as I am now certain that the foundation of the Tripoli Gallery is as solid as it can be, built by myself, the artists, my Mom, my Father, my brothers, my sisters, Lisa, my friends, my patrons, my believers, and my doubters. Here we go all in and look to inspire that mentality. If you want it, it is yours. If we aren’t making history then what are we doing? I stay charged with the belief that building this platform will continue to serve a much grander idea. Thank you.
~ Tripoli Patterson
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