The Bruce Contemporaries hosted the 4th annual âSips on the Soundâ on July 14, 2022 at the Bruce Museumâs Seaside Center in Greenwich Point Park.
Membership dues from the Contemporaries help fund the year-round operations and educational programming offered by the Museum at the Seaside Center. Guests enjoyed cocktails on the beach provided by Horseneck Wine and Liquor and sea-inspired bites from Fjord Catering. Many thanks to the Contemporaries Chairs Grace Djuranovic and Asya Geller and the Founders and Events Committees - Shari Aser, Katie Fong Biglin, Hagar Chemali, Caitlin Davis, Kristen Forlini, Erin Glasebrook, Taylor Grothe, Olivia Langston, Caity Lischick, Carol Ravera, Rebecca Vanyo, Abby Vorobeychik and Amanda Wilson - for their leadership in helping grow this dynamic new group of art and science enthusiasts.
The Bruce Contemporaries is a new council of over 130 Museum supporters. Contemporaries enjoy insider access to the Bruce Museum through special programming, including exclusive events, educational and networking opportunities specifically designed for Bruce Contemporaries.
For information about upcoming events and networking opportunities, visit brucecontemporaries.org or contact Becky Conelias at bconelias@brucemuseum.org or 203-413-6745.
On June 22, the Bruce Contemporaries were invited to an exclusive experience at four local galleries around Greenwich Avenue to hear about the Greenwich art scene, current trends and whatâs on view at those galleries. The Contemporaries visited Taylor Graham, Cavalier Gallery, Weber Fine Art, and Hayes Gallery.
At Taylor | Graham the Bruce Museum group enjoyed visiting a secondary market gallery and art market resource that offers Abstract Expressionist works, French Impressionist and Modern works, Sculptures by such masters as Harry Bertoia, Deborah Butterfield and female kinetic artist Lin Emery. They were given an introduction to collecting museum quality artists that are part of art historic movements! On view were works by contemporary luminaries such as George Condo and Wolf Kahn, Impressionists such as Edouard Vuillard and Henri Lebasque and American Post War artists Friedel Dzubas and Theodoros Stamos.
Cavalier Ebanks Galleries introduced their diverse range of painting, sculpture and photography. Featured works included the now iconic âHippo Ballerinaâ by Bjorn Skaarup, who had his first US Museum show at the Bruce Museum in 2015, and is now exhibiting 3 monumental works in Pershing Square Plaza at the entrance of Grand Central Terminal in New York. Other notable works on view included paintings by Guy Stanley Philoche from his celebrated new series âNew York, I Still Love Youâ, as well as Terry OâNeillâs famous photograph of Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and a historic maritime painting by Maarten Platje from his collection of Early US Naval Battle scenes.
Weber Fine Art hung a special show for the Bruce Contemporaries! Themed around summer, works by Isca Greenfield-Sanders were displayed featuring largescale oil paintings and smaller mixed media watercolors. Isca Greenfield-Sandersâ landscape paintings based on found vintage photography, invite her viewer to forge a connection to their own experience. Using the old pictures as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. Oil portraits by Sebastian Blanck were also featured. Sebastian is known for documenting the small intimate moments in life, as his work is comprised of portraits of loved ones, fellow artists & musicians, and his children at play. Blanck is known for both his oil paintings and his distinct collage technique that layers painted paper over watercolor onto stretched paper.
Gallerist Jillian Hayes spoke to the group about her gallery, which will be celebrating its first anniversary in July 2022, as well as several of the artists she represents and how she sources artwork at fairs and via social media. We enjoyed the first floor's solo exhibition of work by artist Punkmetender, as well as the mix of artists represented on the second floor â from Abstract Expressionists (and Jillian's father!) Robert Giorgio to Pop artist Burton Morris to photographer Jonas Leriche.
Many thanks to Taylor Graham, Cavalier Gallery, Weber Fine Art, and Hayes Gallery for hosting the Bruce Contemporaries for such a special evening!
