Silvermine Galleries to present a curated Group Exhibition with new work by its Guild members Gallerist Susan Eisner Eley serving as Guest Curator

The Silvermine Galleries will present a Guild Group Exhibition with new work by 44 members of the Silvermine Guild of Artists. The exhibition is curated by Susan Eisner Eley of Susan Eley Fine Art, the salon-style gallery on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The public is invited to an opening reception on Sun., Nov. 18 from 2-4 pm, and the exhibition runs through Dec. 20. As it nears its Centennial, Silvermine celebrates its extraordinarily accomplished painters, sculptors, printmakers, and collage and mixed media artists. Visitors will be able to see new work and new explorations in this wide-ranging, end-of-the-year Guild Group Exhibition.

 

“I am delighted and honored to have been asked to guest-curate the 2018 Silvermine Guild Group Show,” said Susan Eley. My family has a deep history with Silvermine. My mother, Carole Eisner, is a long-time Guild member who since the 1970s has exhibited her sculptures in group and solo exhibitions at Silvermine. From the time I was a child I have visited Silvermine, accompanying my parents in support of my mother’s career.”

“Reviewing artwork by 137 artists for this exhibition was no easy task. While culling through hundreds of paintings, photographs, prints, collages, mixed media, textiles and sculpture, I felt like a kid in a candy store,” said Eley. “A plethora of well-crafted and innovative artwork greeted me at every turn…. My criteria for selecting art has been the same since 2006, the year I established a contemporary art gallery on the Upper West Side of New York City. Art that attracts me is executed with a high level of craft and technical proficiency, and expresses something new that I have never seen before.”

The artists included in the exhibition represent a variety of artistic media. Nash Hyon, a Wilton resident who teaches the Cold Wax course at Silvermine, reveals in her scraped and layered surfaces complexities of pattern and a sense of the passage of time. She is equally adept working in monochrome or high color. Susan Manspeizer of Pound Ridge shapes sensuous, curved forms out of bent plywood and brings brilliant hues or subtly soft color to the fabric-like folds of her sculpture. Nancy Moore of Ridgefield will show watercolor paintings from her “Unconventional Women” series, which explores women “who are not beautiful in a conventional sense, and who are not engaged in conventional activities.” One of her works recently won the Juror’s Choice Award at the New Britain Museum of American Art’s Nor’Easter Exhibition. Inspired by patterns and images in nature, Mitchell Visoky of White Plains creates bold and luxuriously three-dimensional compositions in paper collages on cradled board.

The Guild Group Exhibition runs through Dec. 20^th. During the run of the exhibit, an extended Gallery Store will be open through December 23^rd, for those in search of unique gifts by artists and artisans from the Silvermine Guild and from the Northeast region.