“Woman with a Camera” by Larry Lewis
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The fall season brings four new exhibits to the Silvermine Arts Center, located in New Canaan, CT. Opening on September 25th these new exhibits provide a look at the work of an artist whose work comes to awareness posthumously, reflections on the coexistence of nature and industry, and expressions of myth and reality. All are welcome to the opening reception on Sunday, September 25th from 2pm to 4pm. The exhibits will run through November 4th.
The Director’s Choice exhibit features works by reclusive artist, Larry Lewis as seen in his collage books which he began in the late 60’s and continued to produce until his death in 2004. His niece and heir to the artwork, Sharyn Prentiss Laughton, shared that Larry never finished any of his books, but rather worked randomly and haphazardly through each one, and showed them only to her. The totality of his work was only discovered after he died. A member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists for a brief period of time in the 1960’s, very little is known about him personally or artistically. His artistic progress is sketchy at best as he rarely dated his work and rarely exhibited. As a member of the Guild, he exhibited some of his gouache work, however, there is no record that indicates whether he ever exhibited his collage books at Silvermine. A reclusive and unassuming person, his books took on another life with brilliantly hand ink colored pages created from photocopies of collected Victorian images, movie stars from the 1920’s and 30’s, and newspaper ads for elixirs, potions, ways to get rid of wrinkles, address sagging waistlines, pinch back ears and body remedies. Each page and spread was composed as a painting unto itself.
“Primary Cadence” by Nancy Mctague-Stock, a resident of Wilton
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“Fragments of the Aquatic,” showcases works by Silvermine Guild Artist, Nancy McTague-Stock, a resident of Wilton, CT. Ms. McTague-Stock is an artist who works in a variety of media. She shares her interest in creating imagery that offers a glimpse of unnoticed rhythms of the natural world, with deep-rooted connections in ecology, psychology and sociology through drawings, paintings, printmaking, new media and writing. In its many forms, water plays a vital role for all of us. Water offers us properties of sustenance, potential for destruction, meditative moments, athletic opportunities and artistic vision. Her preoccupation with natural water occurrences in daily life is evident in this series of work. “By focusing on fragments available to me in a singular moment, I invite the audience to share in a multi-sensorial exhibition. I hope they will engage, reflect and contemplate how water plays critical and numerous roles in their lives,” says McTague-Stock. “The works of art in this exhibition offer the viewer an opportunity to play with their own perception of reality.”
As a painter, printmaker and photographer, McTague-Stock’s work has been exhibited in many venues including the Mattatuck Museum, Housatonic Museum, Stamford Museum, Lockwood Mansion Museum, University of Connecticut and Sacred Heart University in Connecticut; the Walter Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Mississippi, the Bristol Museum in Rhode Island, the Attleboro Museum, the Art Institute of Boston, Wheaton College and Hampshire College in Massachusetts, Appalachian State University, University of Fayetteville in North Carolina and Virginia Commonwealth University. Nancy’s work is collected in the United States and abroad, both privately and publicly. In addition to her art, she has also taught and lectured for numerous organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, Silvermine School of Art, the Art Institute of Boston’s MFA students, League of University Women, Aldrich Museum for Connecticut Art Educators, and the Connecticut Art Educator's conference. She created the 'Landscapes into Tuscany' painting tours in the 1990's, is a private college consultant for artists, served as a Master Printer for the Monothon at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and worked as a U.S. juror for London's Prince of Wales Foundation's Student Art Exhibition.
Nancy McTague-Stock has been a grant recipient from the Slade School of Art at the University of London, an Artist Residency Fellowship recipient from Contemporary Art Center in NY, a Faculty Travel Grant recipient and a grant recipient from the Maurer Family Foundation. Nancy has also been a featured artist with the Fairfield University Open Forums program, has co-authored a book about art and poetry and has accrued numerous honors for her artwork and her teaching on the national and international level.
“Blue Plate Special Roxy’s Cell 23” by Roxanne Faber Savage, a resident of Fairfield
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Visual artist and printmaker, Roxanne Faber Savage has had an on-going fascination and attraction to birds and utility wires, which has taken on a life of its own. “Bird(ish)” is an exhibition of prints based on highway vistas, bird imagery and daydreams culled from her daily drives on I95 and rural roads. This show is a unique documentation of images shot, drawn, copied, stretched, pressed and printed, depicting the co-existence of nature and industry in the modern landscape. Roxanne will present interpretive exhibition programming in the gallery on Wednesdays from 3pm to 5pm for the run of the show (9/28, 10/5, 12, 19, 26 and 11/2). Each Wednesday she will engage gallery goers to “print, talk, draw and bird watch.”
A resident of Fairfield, Roxanne, whose work is comprised of traditional etchings, silk aquatint monoprints and a transfer technique called paper lithography, says that a “stream of consciousness and a rich store of personal memories are the starting place for my prints and drawings. My interests in energy and freedom, in the widest sense, provide a central theme through which I channel my experiences. I value the emotive power of color, and layer my prints with saturated color and energy related imagery: strewn power lines, loopy crayon scribbles and scratchy surface textures. I make prints because I love the possibilities presented in the combinations of multiple printmaking techniques, and the physicality of using an etching press.”
Roxanne Faber Savage is a multidisciplinary artist, with printmaking her primary art form. She is also a seasoned educator and Master Teaching Artist on the CT Commission and Tourism Teaching Roster. An award winning artist, she has received recognition for her innovative and original prints on paper, plastic, and metal. Roxanne has extensive education in printmaking and drawing, studying internationally in Italy and the U.S. Her works are featured in solo and invitational exhibitions, and are held in corporate and private collections. Her exhibition venues have included the National Arts Club, NY, NY, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT, the Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, the Sacred Heart Gallery of Contemporary Art, CT, the Editions & Artist Book Fair, NY, NY, and ARTSPACE New Haven. Roxanne teaches printmaking at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, in Norwalk, CT, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY. Roxanne earned her BFA, (drawing) from Pratt Institute and an M.S. Ed. (full scholarship) from Queens College.
“Colloquy for Clint; the Barn Door, His Oak and the Laurel” by Joseph Saccio, resident of North Haven
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“Memory and Metamorphosis,” an exhibit of sculptural works in a variety of sizes and materials by Joseph Saccio, expresses the artist’s personal feelings associated with myth and ritual, loss and rebirth. “I’m interested in the idea of great power joined to fragility and vulnerability, a very human, and indeed, mythic combination,” says Saccio. “This is reflected in the choice of weighty, large materials literally joined with, or in assocation with, fragile materials such as paper or fiber bindings especially noted at the physical connections among parts of my sculptures.” The dark somber pieces are expressive of loss and rebirth, and for the artist, associated with myth and ancient ritual, leading the viewer through the changing process, producing forms which are abstract but resemble a living organism.
Joe Saccio, a resident of North Haven, CT, is largely self-taught. He has learned techniques at various places such as the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT where in the 1960's and '70's, he worked with metal sculptor Ann Lehman. He participated in a sculpture workshop with sculptor Stan Bliefeld in Westport, CT, and from 1979 through 1982 during summer vacations in Italy, he observed and informally studied marble carving and bronze casting in the cities of Lucca and Pietrasanta. He has exhibited widely throughout Connecticut including Greene Art Gallery and the Guilford Art Center in Guilford, Creative Arts Workshop, Kehler Liddell Gallery and ArtSpace in New Haven, the Stamford Museum, and the Choate Mellon Art Center in Wallingford. Joseph Saccio has won numerous awards including Best in Show at the 2010 Art of the Northeast at Silvermine Arts Center.
About Silvermine Arts Center
Silvermine Arts Center located in New Canaan, Connecticut is one of the oldest artist communities in the United States. Located on a four acre campus, the center is comprised of a nationally renowned artist guild, award winning school of art offering multi-disciplinary art classes for ages 2 to 102, a gift shop and galleries, offering over twenty contemporary and historic exhibitions annually. The center also provides innovative arts education in Norwalk and Stamford schools through its outreach program, Art Partners, and hosts a lecture series and special programs throughout the year. Silvermine Arts Center is a nonprofit organization.
Silvermine Arts Center Mission
Grounded in the belief that art is vital to the spirit, creativity and wholeness of human beings, the mission of Silvermine Arts Center is to cultivate, promote and encourage growth through the arts; to showcase and serve artists; and to foster arts education and appreciation opportunities for the greater community.
Gallery Hours: Silvermine Galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, 12p.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1pm to 5 p.m. For more information, call (203) 966-9700 ext. 20 or visit the website: www.silvermineart.org.
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