Scott McIntire and Lori Hollander, husband and wife artists who share a studio in their Greenport home, recently opened a new show of their respective paintings at Vine + Sand, a Southold bed and breakfast. The exhibit is part of art | vs, Vine + Sand’s art space, run by co-owner John Pierce.
Hollander, who is also a jewelry maker and designer, has a selection of her portraits, cloud studies and still lifes displayed on the first floor of the 200-year-old renovated farmhouse. The rest of the space, including all four bedrooms, the sitting room, great room and hallways are filled with McIntire’s work — about 40 pieces in total. “It’s a whole house one man show,” says Pierce, noting that Hollander’s “beautiful paintings [are] an added attraction.”
McIntire, who was raised in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, worked as both an advertising art director and a fine artist, showing his work in regional galleries and creating over 100 posters for various events and organizations in the area.
After teaching at the pacific Northwest College of Art and later moving to Puerto Rico in the mid-80s, McIntire moved to New York in 1994 and showed his work in Cleveland, New York City and Long Island, including a 2019 show at the Nassau County Museum of Art entitled Energy: The Power of Art.
Energy is a theme that runs through McIntire’s work and is evident in The Delusion of Quixote in Watermill, which dominates Vine + Sand’s sitting room with an image of a Southampton windmill against a bright pink background, flanked by swirls of energy and figures on a motorcycle and a Vespa.
“I couldn’t do a windmill without thinking about Don Quixote,” says McIntire. “I’ve got this modernized Quixote on a big bike, and Sancho Panza over here on the Vespa,” he says. “And because Don Quixote was in a psychotic episode chasing the windmills, that started me thinking about the spinning. That’s psychotic episode stuff, but it’s also an energy form, and that started me bringing in energy as a subject into my work.”
Indeed, energetic waves depicting cellular transmissions, radio waves, sounds and smells are regularly found in McIntire’s paintings. Blues in the Garden has a sound signature from a blue jay in a corner of the work, depicted as a jagged series of shapes that recalls the bird’s loud squawk.
Bird and plant forms also recur in McIntire’s work. McIntire has spent over 35 years as a gardener and photographer and is inspired by the bird, plant and insect life that he sees in his Greenport garden and adjacent woodlands. In his paintings displayed throughout the bed and breakfast, one can identify dragonflies, cardinals, beetles, bittersweet, sumac, wasps, and tulips, day lilies and morning glories from McIntire’s garden, juxtaposed with energetic fields and signatures.
Lori Hollander, Girl with Shell Necklace, 2010, oil on canvas; The Dancer, 2012, oil on canvas; Sisters, 2018, oil on canvas. (Photos Courtesy of the artist) 
Scott McIntire, Energy Field 2, 2019, enamel on canvas, and Blues in the Garden, 2018, enamel on canvas. (Photo Courtesy of the artist) 
Scott McIntire, Blue Octopus, 2007, enamel on watercolor paper. (Photo Courtesy of the artist) 
Lori Hollander, Cloud Study 2, 2025, oil on canvas. (Photo Courtesy of the artist) 
Vine + Sand’s upstairs display space. (Photo Credit: Stephanie Villani) 
Scott McIntire, Sumac Energy Field, 2011, enamel on canvas. (Photo Courtesy of the artist)
“I’m dealing with the energy that goes on around us,” says McIntire. “This feeds my need for different types of imagery where my interests are,” he says. “I just keep putting that stuff together in different ways it works for me.”
McIntire uses color bars to represent man-made things: houses, cars, and trains. The geometric patterns reference op art, a style of art popular in the 1960s, which used patterns and contrasts to give viewers the illusion of movement. “When I first got out of college, I was doing paintings like op art … so I brought that back into my work,” he says.
Many of McIntire’s pieces are done in enamel paint, a holdover from his work in commercial art, which give the paintings a distinctive texture and sheen. “In high school I did pinstriping on cars,” says McIntire, “and that’s the kind of paint that you use to do pinstriping. And I kind of liked the way it laid down … and it’s got a certain color saturation. Because of that I switched back from oils to the enamel.”
While McIntire has shown his work with VSOP Projects and the North Fork Art Collective, most of the paintings in the show have not been exhibited before on the North Fork. You’ll find a series of paintings of New York City water tanks and buildings, and studies of saguaro cacti and brightly colored 1950s era neon signs (including one from the old Coronet Restaurant in Greenport). There’s also a group of brightly-colored found wood sculptures outdoors, called Sentinels, that stand in harmony with the natural environment.
Pierce, who started showing art in his bed and breakfast in 2023, curates five or six shows each year with artists from the North Fork. “I’ve met so many people doing this,” Pierce says. “Every time that I hear artists speak about the work I learn something else … it’s exciting.”
Guests of the bed and breakfast are equally appreciative of the art displayed throughout the house, and some have even bought pieces to take home. “They expect the unexpected when they come here, because [the art is] always different,” says Pierce.
Hollander and McIntire’s paintings will be on display through the spring, and the public is invited to stop by on weekends from noon to 5 p.m. or call 631-620-9253 to schedule a visit.
Vine + Sand, 47100 Main Road, Southold, 631-620-9253
