When designer and curator Lisa Perry heads to the workplace from her home on Long Island’s East Stop, she drives some 20 minutes to Onna Residence, the Zen modernist household originally created for the properly-acknowledged Pop Art collectors Robert and Ethel Scull, in 1962. There, at the household she overhauled with Brooklyn-dependent follow Harper Design and style + Construct, she is surrounded by functions of artwork and structure objects, all of which flaunt the imprint of woman talents—think a multimedia e book installation seemingly plucked from a classic library by Julie Wolfe, Kelly Behun’s modern, ebonized, ash and forged metal table, and geometry-patterned glazed ceramics from Sabra Moon Elliot. As of May well 28, the general public is invited to tour Onna Home on a by appointment basis and to see Perry’s personalized selection up shut.
With its East Hampton residential spot, Onna Property, a metal and glass landmark courtesy of the late architect Paul Lester Wiener, is not a conventional gallery. Relatively, it is an personal gallery-like practical experience introduced in a “fresh, new way,” Perry informed Advert Pro. It is also an natural outgrowth of her own thoughtfully assembled selection of artworks that are unavailable for acquire by people. “It was crucial for me to initial go to every one a single of these artists and say, ‘I think in your operate, so I’m purchasing your work, and I’m likely to get started accumulating your get the job done, and a person working day we will have a show of far more of your do the job.’”
There is hope that, finally, artists from all disciplines will arrive to roost at Onna Residence, sleeping in the guesthouse for the duration of residencies or making collaborative operates with fellow creators for a day amid the normal landscape. Just about every of the bedrooms in the dwelling were being deliberately transformed to accommodate communal areas. Following all, Onna Property is intended to provide as a collective, “a studio to meet and cling out with individuals,” as Perry puts it.
Kicking off the Onna Home situations calendar and functioning by way of June 25 is “Listening to the Thread,” an exhibition of dreamy, woven tapestries by Kyoto-bred Mitsuko Asakura, complemented by jewellery, mirrors, and contemplative paper dresses from multidisciplinary Geneva artist Ligia Dias. “This is the first gallery present I have at any time carried out in my everyday living,” Perry details out.