The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton’s award-winning art gallery headed by Andrea McCafferty and Kat O’Neill, hosts provocative exhibitions all year round, but the stars of this summer’s shows are especially iconic. Here, McCafferty and O’Neill discuss their upcoming exhibitions, events and more.

The White Room Gallery – Summer Shows

A Flight of Fine Art Featuring Markus Klinko (on view through June 5) is quite an exciting show to kick off the summer! What do you feel sets Klinko apart from his contemporaries, and how is that quality on full display in his works on view in this show?

Markus is as relevant now as when he helped shape the popular culture landscapes of the 2000s with his iconic portraits. His campaign for Keep a Child Alive featuring Kim Kardashian in a coffin raised over $1 million for children with AIDS in just three days.

When he was a world-renowned classical harp soloist, it was Ravel and Debussy who captured his imagination, and as a photographer, he too is like a French impressionist composer creating a dreamy, stylized narrative while elevating his subjects into gods and goddesses as part of a social commentary begging the question is the deifying warranted. Bowie. Lady Gaga. Beyonce. Dita. All posed to perfection.

Tell our readers about Forever Young Featuring Russell Young (June 8–26) and why this exhibition is a perfect addition to your summer 2022 lineup.

Forever Young brings together mug shots and glam shots embodying Russell’s glamorized and souring vision of the American Dream. Icons captured in their youth are by definition “forever young.” There is beauty and sorrow in that capture. Most…