Bragging Rights 2007-08:

Mary K. Connelly

MARY K. CONNELLY'S WORK WAS EXHIBITED AT SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ARTISTS GALLERY FROM JANUARY 9-FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Assistant Professor and visual artist Mary K. Connelly's paintings entitled "Interiors and Still Places" were exhibited at the San Francisco MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ARTISTS GALLERY January 9-February 1.

Connelly writes, “My recent series of paintings, Interiors & Still Places, are a study of the domestic interior where the familiar notion of ‘home’ is fraught with conflicting feelings of entrapment and private repose. The images are created by a distillation of perception and memory, allowing color and light to convey a world psychologically and spiritually charged. Architectural space serves as a formal and conceptual device to establish boundaries and duality between the interior and exterior worlds. The interior is also a metaphor for my ruminating mind, preoccupied by nostalgia, longing, and loss. In re-presenting a space imbued with intimacy and emptiness, my intention is to offer the viewer a still moment for meditation and contemplation.”
 
Born in 1961, Mary K. Connelly was raised in Belleville, New Jersey.  Graduating with a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 1983, she received her MFA in Painting at Indiana University in Bloomington in 2000. Connelly was recently awarded “First Place” in the 10th International Open 2007 at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago--she will have a solo show at the gallery in March 2008. Future shows also include solo exhibitions at The San Luis Obispo Art Center in California and the Charleston Heights Art Center in Las Vegas. The artist currently resides in Denver and is an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Painting and Drawing at the University of Colorado Denver.