The Fall 2016 Art Season Opens at Silvermine September 10 and September 18. Silvermine School of Art Open House Saturday, September 10 with a Faculty Pop-up Exhibition in the Galleries, 10 am – 2 pm 3 NEW EXHIBITIONS opening Sunday, September 18, 2-4 pm. Reception open to the public: Barry Kiperman, “The Tabletop Schematics;” “Flow,” a Guild Group Show Karen Kalkstein, “Evensong” 

Barry Kiperman, “The Tabletop Schematics” Michele 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 10. 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. And Kiperman 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.”

“Flow,” a Guild Group Show, Curated by Cris Xavier, Jana Ireijo, and Elisa Keogh 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 inbetween and the places that permeate worlds. This Guild Group show will include works by Sara Conklin, Susan Cox, Charles Geiger, Krisina Kuester-Witt 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.” 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 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.”