Silvermine Art Galleries Susan Hensel

Art Exhibition 70 A-One?

Silvermine Galleries & Susan Hensel! Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Don’t Miss it!  Through October 20, at Silvermine Galleries, in New Canaan, CT.  It’s the 70th year of this show and it is a major celebration for this well-known Art Guild.   Indeed, I am so pleased to be in this show with Chromatic Wave 2 & Chromatic Curve and to now be a member of this 96 year old artists guild!  As part of this show, I participated in a Pecha Kucha!  What’s a Pecha Kucha?  It is a brief presentation of words and images. Here’s mine!

Silvermine Art Galleries & Susan Hensel

70 A-One was established in 1949 as the New England Exhibition, a regional exhibit. It later became known as Art of the Northeast and is now a national exhibition. It features a wide range of collectible contemporary artwork that is both vibrant and surprising. Throughout its history, Silvermine’s signature exhibition has featured the work of many prominent artists such as Louise Nevelson, Elaine de Kooning, and Milton Avery. Jurors have included major critics, curators, and directors from influential art institutions.

Curated this year by  Barbara O’Brien-For nearly three decades O’Brien’s curatorial practice have focused on the art and artists of our time. She was Executive Director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri from 2012 – 2017, after serving as chief curator and director of exhibitions since 2009. In 2018 and 2019, she was a consulting curator for the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT. From 2003-2006 O’Brien was editor-in-chief of Art New England magazine. She earned an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and in 2006 was awarded the RISD national alumni award for professional achievement. O’Brien is an elected member of AICA-USA, the international organization of art critics.  

Silvermine Art Galleries & Susan Hensel

[su_box title=”Susan Hensel” box_color=”#2a6bb0″] Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Above all, Hensel’s desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator. Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums. [/su_box]