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With everything else colorful and uplifting sprouting this spring, the nationally recognized, regional art showcase and competition, Art of the Northeast also returns for its 62nd year to New Canaan's Silvermine Arts Guild. Featuring more than 1200 works of art, Tom Eccles, Bard College's executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies, selected the winners of the show, which is on exhibit from April 17 through June 3.
Since joining CCS Bard, Eccles has overseen the Hessel Museum of Art's creation, a 17,000-square-foot space to house the Marieluise Hessel Collection, on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial Studies. Under his direction, the Center also presents exhibitions and holds symposiums, creates publications, and offers research fellowships. Eccles also curated the exhibit, "Wrestle," comprised of works from the Hessel Collection and has organized exhibitions with Martin Creed, (2007), Keith Edmier (2008), and Rachel Harrison (2009). In 2005, he organized the U.S. version of "Uncertain Sates of America" at CCS Bard. Previously, he was New York's Director of the Public Art Fund from 1997 to 2005.
Artist Inna Linov, a Stamford resident, submitted a painting chosen by Eccles as Best in Show of 2011's Art of the Northeast. Originally from the Ukraine, Linov's work has been exhibited in many countries. She also won this year's Stamford Art Association competition, "Faces and Figures." In her artist statement, Linov describes her art as "easily connecting fantasy with observation, tragedy together with irony, historical reminiscences and different experiences." Silvermine Galleries are open Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit Silvermine's website.
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