YOUNG ARTISTS OF CAPE COD: PARADIGM SHIFT

Miller White Fine Arts is thrilled to present Paradigm Shift, a multi-disciplinary exhibition of works by eleven young adult artists, all of whom share Cape Cod as their familial base and each living a life devoted to the arts.  Paradigm Shift features artists Colin Allrich, Horace Bryant, Ben Coppelman, Schuyler Grant, Jill Hedrick, Dakin Henderson, Joseph Saunders, Harry Skoyles, Vanessa Varijan, Amy Westburg and Melissa Woolford.  The show is conceived and organized by gallery director Susan Reid Danton and internationally esteemed modernist artist William Hemmerdinger, both experienced curators and observers of new talent.

Paradigm Shift provides a showcase for brilliant young minds who are redefining artistic relevance and success on, and from, Cape Cod.  This vibrant generation of young architects, cinematographers, sound producers, engineers, photographers, poets, sculptors and painters include many whom have garnered significant professional acclaim in their arts-based endeavors. The curators have proposed that these artists are among the many standard bearers who are actively restoring leading-edge creativity to the Cape. 

Each artist addresses through their art form the most daunting question of coming to creative maturity after the millenial turn: is the world I now inherit one that I can legitimize, on my own terms?  Are the forms of creativity once so common and popular still relevant?  While the curators enthusiastically answer in the affirmative, it remains up to each artist and viewer to explore and shape their own unique response.  The show itself embodies both singular and collective elements of a generational worldview, blending such concepts as identity, loss, aging, beauty and ethical living with the artistic process.  From a confluence of artistic styles and media, the result is a captivating exhibition that is at once elegant, inclusive and accessible, and powerfully resonant.

Now in its fourth year of operation, Miller White Fine Arts has come to be known as a gem among fine art galleries on the Cape.  The exhibitions inspire intellectual and aesthetic curiosity, serious as well as playful consideration of art available for viewing and purchase, while providing a serene destination for area residents and viewers alike.  Owner and director Susan Danton expertly coalesces a family legacy of prestigious fine art promotion with her own creativity and discernment, producing shows of contemporary fine art that are some of the best to be found on Cape Cod.  An artist and gallerist, Ms. Danton is also a professionally-trained arts therapist.  The career of Cotuit-based artist William Hemmerdinger spans five decades and four continents, working in the disciplines of visual art, architecture, art criticism, art research, business, connoisseurship, design, film and animation, historic preservation, museum studies, photography and publishing.  In 2006, Getty Research Institute acquired “William Hemmerdinger Papers” with the express purpose of documenting “California and the Pacific Rim, 1967 – 2005.”