{"id":835368,"date":"2026-07-30T06:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:53:39","slug":"for-artnewports-summer-2026-exhibitions-austin-eddy-and-na-kim-are-looking-to-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835368\/","title":{"rendered":"For Art&Newport\u2019s Summer 2026 Exhibitions, Austin Eddy and Na Kim Are Looking to the Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every summer in Rhode Island, Art&Newport<\/a>\u2014an organization founded in 2017 by Dodie Kazanjian, a longtime contributing editor at this magazine<\/a>\u2014activates one of the seaside city\u2019s most historic (and picturesque) sites with a temporary art exhibition. In the past, that has meant anything from a soaring installation of painted yacht sails<\/a> by Cy Gavin at the IYRS School of Technology & Trades to reinterpretations of the art-historical trope of card play by the likes of Tina Barney, Cecily Brown, and John Currin at the Vernon House.<\/p>\n

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Austin Eddy<\/p>\n

Photo: Tobias Heitz\"Image<\/p>\n

Photo: JiaJia Fei<\/p>\n

This summer, Brooklyn-based artists Na Kim and Austin Eddy are the subjects of two site-responsive solo exhibitions in the area, and both are looking poignantly skyward.<\/p>\n

First, open this week, is \u201cNa Kim: Portraits,\u201d<\/a> a series of small, lyrical cloud paintings (secured in waterproof frames) at the 17th-century Old Stone Mill in Touro Park, with an additional horizontal painting on view at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum on Bellevue Avenue. (Better known for her vivid figurative work<\/a>, Kim\u2014the art director of The Paris Review and creative director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u2014will also show cloud paintings in New York this fall, at Nicola Vassell.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first started painting three years ago, I was drawn to painting portraits because of the inscrutable and changing nature of faces,\u201d Kim said in a release. \u201cI feel the same way about clouds that I do about people and faces. They\u2019re constantly shape-shifting, appearing and disappearing. There\u2019s something about paying attention to them that makes me feel present in the same way that I do when I\u2019m painting or really connecting with another person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Newport Tower, also known as the Old Stone Mill<\/p>\n

Photo: Ajay Suresh\"Image<\/p>\n

Inside the Redwood Library, among the oldest libraries in America<\/p>\n

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