Silvermine Arts Center Names 'Art Of The Northeast' Finalists

NEW CANAAN, CT — From Silvermine Arts Center: Silvermine Arts Center announced today the finalists in the 68th annual Art of the Northeast Exhibition, Silvermine’s signature show, which is open to artists from Maine to D.C. Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, served as the 2018 curator. The community is invited to the opening reception and awards presentation at the Silvermine Galleries on Sat., July 14 from 6 to 8 pm.

Patricia Hickson called the submissions to this year’s competition “a strong and diverse range of work,” and commented further on her task as curator: “My subjective decisions were grounded in objective criteria—a balance of creative and formal elements. Color, technique, and composition weighed equally with subject, concept, and individual style…. This vast and impressive range of work speaks to the many individual voices creating contemporary art today.”

Begun at Silvermine in 1949 as the New England Exhibition, Art of the Northeast is open to artists from Maine to D.C. Over the years, this distinguished exhibition has featured the work of many prominent artists including Louise Nevelson, Elaine de Kooning, and Milton Avery. Throughout its history, Art of the Northeast
has been a platform for both established and emerging artists, many of whom have gone on to receive national acclaim. Jurors have included major critics, curators, and directors from some of the most influential contemporary art institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum.

Names of the finalists in the 2018 exhibition follow and appear alphabetically by town or city of residence: Elizabeth Panzer and Susan Sommer of Accord, NY; Kazaan Viveiros of Frenchtown, NJ; Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt of Bayside, NY; Jeremy Cash of Brooklyn, NY; Ashley Norwood Cooper of Cooperstown, NY;
David Dowler of Corning, NY; Lauren Eve Skelly Bailey of East Meadow, NY; Jean Sausele-Knodt of North Yarmouth, ME; Nan Runde of Hartford, CT; Arle Sklar-Weinstein of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; Christine Guarino of Hudson, NY; Werner Bargsten of Jersey City, NJ; Gianluca Bianchino of Little Falls, NJ; Jill Parry of Mamaroneck, NY; Eoin Burke, Susan Clinard, and Willard Lustenader of New Haven, CT; Jennifer Cadoff of New Rochelle, NY; Ella Hilsenrath, Martha Ives, Tracy Kerdman, and Renee Khatami of New York City; Ingrid Scheibler of Newton Centre, MA; Joan Zagrobelny of Newtown, CT; Alexander Churchill, Kevin Ford, Peter Ostasiewicz, and Robert Sachs of Norwalk, CT; Helen Cantrell of Old Lyme, CT; Robert Gregson of Orange, CT; Linda Kuehne of Pound Ridge, NY; Michael Quirk of Shelton, CT; Scott Bricher of South Kent, CT; Debra Bilow of South Salem, NY; Paul Eric Johnson of Stafford Springs, CT; Mark Andreas, Angie O’Brien, and Sofie Swann of Stamford, CT; Christa Whitten of Suffield, CT; Liz Dexheimer of Washington, CT; Audrey Klotz and Rosalind Shaffer of Weston, CT; and Ron Lake of Westport, CT.

All Art of the Northeast finalists are included in the exhibition. Best in Show and special awards will be presented at the opening reception on July 14. The exhibition will run through Aug. 25.

Silvermine Arts Center is one of the oldest artist communities in the United States. Its 5-­acre campus in New Canaan, Connecticut, consists of a nationally renowned artist guild, an award­-winning 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 501c3 organization that also offers an Outreach Education Program, Art Partners, and hosts lectures, film screenings, and special events. Silvermine Galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, 12 pm to 5 pm and Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm. For more information, call (203) 966­9700 ext. 20 or visit the website: www.silvermineart.org.

Photo credit: Jeremy Saladyga

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