Three New Exhibitions opening Sunday, September 18, 2-4 pm, Reception open to the public.
Silvermine opens its fall gallery season on Sunday, September 18th with three new exhibitions. The shows include: Barry Kiperman, 2015 Best in Show in Art of the Northeast, in his solo exhibition; “Flow,” a Guild group show on the theme of fluidity and dynamic motion; and Karen Kalkstein’s “Evensong,” an immersive installation that pays homage to aging. These three shows will run through October 29, 2016. The public is invited to an opening reception on the afternoon of September 18th from 2 pm to 4 pm at the Silvermine Galleries.
Barry Kiperman, "Not There--Here" #1, acrylics, graphite leads, ¼” gessoed plywood, spray varnished and edged with Formica laminate, 39” x 59”.
Barry Kiperman, “The Tabletop Schematics”
Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, curators of Silvermine’s 2015 Art of the Northeast, chose artist Barry Kiperman’s serene and original “Tabletop Schematics” as Best-in-Show. Kiperman’s solo exhibition at Silvermine, a result of the AoNE honor, will open at Silvermine on September 18.
In Barry Kiperman’s work, line drawings of ordinary objects float in a visual field, engaging each other seemingly by chance. They are removed from their usual context, and a metamorphosis results. Elements of color, objects overlapping or not touching at all, the abstraction of a familiar thing—all of these aspects create rhetorical counterpoint and dissonant harmonies. Kiperman, who lives and works in Boston, makes his compositions almost into tabletops. His materials are: acrylics, graphite leads, and ¼” gessoed plywood, spray varnished and edged with Formica laminate.
“We each create our own myth of reality to live by,” says Kiperman. “My work explores the mute persistence of common objects and mundane forms that are so inexorably familiar and commonplace that they become part of our everyday visual vernacular. The forms float freely in a time/space dimension of white infinity.”
Curated by artists Cris Xavier, Jana Ireijo, and Elisa Keogh, “Flow” will include works that explore or incorporate fluid states or fluid spaces; the places in-between and the places that permeate worlds. This Guild group show will include works by Sara Conklin, J. Henry Fair, Charles Geiger, Joseph Saccio, and others. The concept of the show will extend to the sequence and position of works in the exhibition. In Xavier’s words, “Flow” is a dynamic that is always on the move, that courses along with a pulse and a rhythm. “It could whisper like a trickle of water, or resonate as loudly as a turbulent current. A flow ultimately becomes an invitation to new paths previously uncharted.” Xavier and Keogh are both residents of Norwalk, Connecticut. Ireijo lives in Westport.
Karen Kalkstein, “Evensong”
Thee chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy evensong.
Milton, Penseroso, 1631
“Evensong” is a peaceful meditation on aging -- the slow but inevitable flow of life and the often hard-won freedom to float or soar. Karen Kalkstein’s figures are made using Japanese papers with textures reminiscent of aged skin. Her immersive installation combines elements of line drawing and sculpture. The figures move toward and way from each other as the air in the room circulates.
Kalkstein, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, says of her figures, “They are ethereal and nude to express a vulnerable, honest kind of beauty. Visitors occupy the same space as the figures, walk among them, become one of them. We are all in this life together. Through this work I rethink attitudes and perceptions of old age, and find wisdom, dignity, self-knowledge, and freedom in all stages of life.”
Silvermine Arts Center is one of the oldest artist communities in the United States. Its fiveacre campus in New Canaan, Connecticut, consists of a nationally renowned artist guild, an awardwinning school of art offering classes for all ages, an arts and fine crafts shop, and a gallery offering over twenty contemporary and historic exhibitions annually. Silvermine is a nonprofit organization that also offers an educational outreach program, Art Partners, and hosts lectures, performances, film screenings, and special events.
Gallery Hours: Silvermine Galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (203) 9669700 ext. 20 or visit the website: silvermineart.org. 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840