Silvermine Artists:

Robbin Zella selected these works from submissions by Silvermine artist members. Zella is Director and Curator at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport. Since her appointment in June of 1998 she has organized over 20 exhibitions.

Color is only one of the many elements that artists use to create their works. Choice of media, composition, line, value, balance and symmetry or asymmetries are among the other fundamentals that an artist manipulates to make a statement.

Creating an exhibition around one of those elements demands a great variety in all of the others, to make a well-balanced and interesting presentation.

Of all the other aspects of a work, color and its values often have the most immediate impact on our visual perception. All of us have swooned over photographs of women in India who wear the most passionately colored saris that mix teal, fuchsia and brilliant yellow. The works chosen for this exhibit utilize brilliant color to make their statement, but also were chosen for how they would intensify the entire space, reflecting off each other within the Gallery. This exhibition focuses on lush color and what that implies; joy, richness, excitement, or a sense of wellbeing.

A wide range of media, including glass or wire and mesh, or found object sculptures, mix with paintings, collages, handmade paper and photography to feature the ways that color enhances an artist’s statement.