Artist Daria Deshuk to be Remembered at Hamptons Memorial at Guild Hall

ARTISTIC TRIBUTE: A public memorial will be held April 22 for the artist and teacher Daria Deshuk at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Deshuk died at her home in Bridgehampton at the age of 60 on March 9, according to her son Sam Deshuk Rivers, who declined to give further details about her death. An East Village troubadour, Deshuk chronicled the neighborhood’s shifting landscape with her painting though others link her to her longtime companion, the late artist Larry Rivers. Growing up in Queens the daughter of a New York City taxi driver, Deshuk was always within sight of Manhattan. While earning her BFA in painting in 1978 at Parsons School of Design, Deshuk first met Rivers, who was teaching there. She went on to receive an MFA in painting from Hunter College. After first getting involved with Rivers at the age of 22, the two had a 15-year relationship and their son was born in 1985. She and her son divided their time between Manhattan and the Hamptons. With an insider’s view of the downtown art scene in the early Eighties, Dushek was a member of P.S.122 Artist Space, where she worked and exhibited for 10 years. While her later work focused

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