Into Uncharted Waters

Hamptons-based artist Mark Seidenfeld brings his abstract vision to Uncharted Waters, a solo exhibition inaugurating The Bridgehampton Museum’s newly renovated Corwith Homestead Tractor Barn. On view June 4th through June 21st, 2026, the exhibition explores depth, gesture, discovery and the creative risk at the heart of abstraction.

A New Space For Discovery
This June, The Bridgehampton Museum opens a new chapter with Uncharted Waters, a solo exhibition of paintings by Hamptons-based artist Mark Seidenfeld. The show will be on view from June 4th through June 21st, 2026, and marks the inaugural exhibition inside the museum’s newly renovated Corwith Homestead Tractor Barn at 2368 Montauk Highway. Blending a contemporary exhibition setting into the historic William A. Corwith Homestead campus, the barn expands the museum’s ability to present ambitious, large-scale and site-responsive work

The Language Of Abstraction
Born in New York City in 1954, Seidenfeld is an abstract painter whose work investigates structure, gesture and spatial depth. His paintings move beyond earlier representational influences into fully realized abstraction, where landscape gives way to interior vision. Rather than depict recognizable places, the works create constructed fields and dreamlike spaces shaped through layering, interruption and revision.

That sense of process is central to the exhibition. Each painting engages what the artist identifies as the Unknown—a shifting condition that resists repetition. What feels resolved in one canvas becomes insufficient in the next, pushing the work forward through discovery rather than formula. The result is a body of work that feels alive with motion, tension and recalibration.

Painting As A Journey
For Seidenfeld, painting is not decorative or passive. In his artist statement, he describes the act of painting as setting sail “for the deep and uncharted waters,” a journey into experimentation, uncertainty and internal discovery. The canvas becomes a place where doubt, fear, instinct and perception are transformed into something visual and illuminated.

This idea gives the exhibition its emotional force. Seidenfeld’s surfaces are built, disrupted and reworked, producing compositions that hold depth without easy closure. Installed within the scale and character of the Tractor Barn, the paintings invite viewers to experience abstraction not as something distant or purely formal, but as a field of perception—one that asks them to look longer, move closer and consider what lies beneath the surface.

A Bridgehampton Moment
Uncharted Waters also signals an important moment for The Bridgehampton Museum. Long dedicated to preserving local history while fostering cultural dialogue, the museum’s new Tractor Barn exhibition space creates fresh possibilities for contemporary art on the East End. With Seidenfeld’s work as its first presentation, the space opens with a show rooted in risk, transformation and discovery.

For more information, visit markseidenfeld.com and bridgehamptonmuseum.org