C O N NI E C O N N AL LY PLACE IN TIME
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Connie Connally Place in Time
AUGUST 26 - OCTOBER 2.2016
LewAllenGalleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Blowing
Through, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in
Connie Connally Place in Time Connie Connally paints beautiful canvases of complex elegance, with imagery that merges harmoniously and nearly completely both representational reference and powerful abstraction. In Place In Time, an enthralling exhibition of new artwork, Connally explores sensory worldly experience through kaleidoscopic, expressionist abstraction. Connally’s poetic colorscapes, with their expressive brushwork, sweeping gestural marks, and animated cadence reflect the artist’s passion for distilling the essence of her observations of nature and situate her work as the vital interplay between memory and imagination. Her palette of organic color and calligraphic brushstroke combine to serve as imprint of the artist’s profound love of being in nature and the desire that her painting reflect both her exterior and interior experience of it. Citing Joan Mitchell as an important influence on her work, Connally employs exuberant, impassioned colors laid on her canvases in a pictorial strategy that teeters between the action painting of her abstract expressionist forebears and a more refined personal style that modulates the strokes and dabs that comprise her surfaces. Her layers of brushstroke read less as agitated ruptures and more like intuitive, sensual experiences rendered as prismatic atmospheres of color and tone. Rich, multi-layered surfaces of sun-drenched color morph, coalesce and scatter in quietly energetic rhythms that evoke the experience of being surrounded by the sights and sounds of nature. Connally continues to find bountiful inspiration in the natural coastlines and verdure of California and the Santa Barbara Mountains that surround her home. She was educated at Wichita State University, later receiving her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and is included in public and private collections.
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Sundial, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in 3
Changing Places II, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in 4
Wild Volunteer, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in 5
Sky a Muse for the Sea, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in 6
Sky a Muse for the Sea II, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in
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Chance Encounter, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in 8
Tideline, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in 9
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Spring Flight, 2016, oil on canvas, 42 x 96 in
Tabula Rasa, 2016, oil on canvas, 40 x 54 in 12
Changing Places I, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in 13
Timekeeper I, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in 14
Timekeeper II, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 x 52 in 15
Water Blue as Air, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in 16
Meeting Place, 2016, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in 17
Connie Connally EDUCATION
2013
Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2004 MFA, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Face of California, Santa Paula Art Museum, CA
1988
Scottsdale Artist School, studied with John Asaro
2012
Lift 2012, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art,
1981
The School of Visual Arts, NY, studied with
Santa Barbara, CA
James McMullin
Experiencing Perspectives 2012-2013, Mercedes-Benz
1977-80 The Illustrators Workshop in New York, Paris and
Financial Services, Ft. Worth, TX
St. Marteen, studied with Bernard Fuchs, Mark English,
Off the Wall, Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of
Alan Cober, Robert Heindel and Robert Peak
Art Women’s Board, Santa Barbara, CA
1975
BFA, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
5 x 7 Splurge, AMOA and Arthouse at the
Jones Center, Austin, TX
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Revelations: Women’s Art from the Permanent
2016
Place in Time, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Collection, The Art Museum of South Texas
2014
New Paintings, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
2010
Santa Monica-The Art of Summer, Orange Country
2011
Life Like Water, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Center for Contemporary Art
2010
Haines Gallery Solo Show, Sullivan Goss-An American
2007
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2006
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, CA
2009
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005
Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
Cain Shulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2004
MFA Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist
2008
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
University, Dallas, TX
2007
MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA
2002
Two Women Show, Forum Gallery Brookhaven College,
2006
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Dallas, TX
2002
McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland, TX
Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX
2001
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX
Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
2001
The Stage Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
The American Kennel Club, New York, NY
2000
Art in the Metroplex, Moudy Art Gallery, TCU,
1997
Anasazi Gallery, Dallas, TX
Fort Worth, TX
ERL Originals Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1996
Southwest Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX
1999
Outside Views on Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Beau Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2015
Connie Connally & Sammy Peters: Fusion, LewAllen
Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1998
Southern Accents Idea House, Charlotte, NC
2013-14 Now and Then, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1997
Neiman Marcus Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
5 x 7 Splurge, AMOA, Austin, TX
1995
Portraits South, Raleigh, NC
Six Rising Stars, LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
Beau Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
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1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com Š 2016 LewAllen Contemporary LLC Artwork Š Connie Connally