Art at Silverwood

Explore art inside Silverwood's Visitor Center! Art can be found around every corner. Walk through the gallery space to see larger installations or wander down the halls to see smaller exhibitions.
 
The gallery has hosted artwork from numerous artists since the visitor center opened in 2009, and focuses on elevating local artists that explore nature themes. From one-person shows to group shows, Silverwood has created a home for contemporary visual art in a variety of mediums.
 
Exhibitions rotate throughout the year.

Current Exhibitions

March 14–April 30, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14, from 6–8 PM

Distance Over Time 
Mike Marks

Distance Over Time explores themes of movement and permanence within the landscape, depicting nature as a series of fragmented moments. Based on personal observations, these works address changes in the land from multiple vantage points where large expansive views quickly give way to intimate objects embedded in between places. Distance Over Time asks viewers to contemplate the fragility between what lingers with us from nature: memory and place, representation and surface, and presence versus absence. 

The image has high contrast from the use of black and white. Shades of vibrant yellows and greens cover a rock-like form. This area has high detail while the black and white areas show large brush strokes. Plants appear to grow on and cover the rock.
Mike Marks; Gatherer, gouache and ink on paper, 22” x 30”, 2024.

How Will You Know When You Belong
Nicole Sara Simpkins

How Will You Know When You Belong transforms the Silverwood Park Gallery into a lush installation of sculptural tapestries featuring botanical and industrial prints mended together with rich, unusual embroidery. Translucent, two-sided and full of openings, this immersive work invites viewers to locate themselves as bound-up-with shifting patterns in ecosystems and seasons. It asks: The land is changing; how are we going to change along with it?

The image is a detail of a large hanging tapestry. It is made using a variety of printmaking techniques and materials. Two dogs with human hands are looking at books or printing objects using their hands. Hand stitching and other printed components embellish the work. Green, brown and cream are the main colors. There is a lot of translucency from a net-like fabric.
Nicole Sara Simpkins; The Lack Seemed Solid (Tansy, Queen Anne's Lace, Mullein), detail, linoleum prints, screen prints, found materials and fibers, vintage lace, hand stitching, cutting, 6' x 6', 2023.
a round metal sculpture on three angled legs. It looks like a UFO.

Art on Foot

Looking for more art? Step outside! Take virtual tours of the art-on-foot poetry trail and sculpture trail at Silverwood.