Large format is the size of the summer on the walls of three Martha’s Vineyard art galleries, with expansive landscapes, abstracts and abstract landscapes by several distinctly different painters.

At gallery openings up-Island Sunday evening, striking landscapes dominated the works. Some were familiar, others almost hallucinatory.

Abe Pieciak and Brandon Newton opened the Chilmark Gallery last weekend with a reception on Friday night. The artists said they hope to inspire not just artists to tap into their creativity.

The well-known art specialist and former longtime Vineyard gallery owner, died on Nov. 20 at her home in West Tisbury.

Artist Steve Lohman is holding a final studio closing sale at his home on 188 Waldrons Bottom Road off West Tisbury/Edgartown Road.

Kara Taylor will jury the work, to be shown at the Old Sculpin Gallery from Sept. 8 to 14.

Rows of small paint brushes were lined up by the window of Ashley Medowski’s studio Monday morning in West Tisbury.

Megan Ottens-Sargent is a woman of many passions — two of which come together at the Sargent Gallery in Aquinnah.

Photographer Elizabeth Cecil is hosting a new exhibition of her work from August 10 to 12 at Salte.

Ashley Medowski is hosting her annual summer show on Saturday, August 11 from 5 to 8 p.m. at her gallery on Lambert’s Cove Road.