Connie Fox: The Sammy s Beach Series at The Heckscher Museum
HUNTINGTON, New York
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Connie Fox
 The Heckscher Museumâs exhibition
Connie Fox: The Sammyâs Beach Series is the first comprehensive presentation of this exciting body of work to take place on Long Island. The exhibition brings together a dozen abstract paintings and a group of related drawings in charcoal, ink, and acrylic on paper that Fox created in response to Sammyâs Beach. (Right, Connie Fox
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Fox began visiting the tidal bay beach, located between Gardinerâs Bay and Three Mile Harbor in the town of East Hampton, soon after moving to Long Island in the late 1970s. Over a period of thirty years, she walked, sat and swam at the beach. Created between 2007 and 2014, the series is a remarkable recent achievement by an artist whose work spans seven decades.