Archived Exhibition

Connie Connally | Drawn Out Conversations
October 21 until November 21, 2009.
Opening Reception Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pm

CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO is pleased to announce Connie Connally's Drawn Out Conversations, a new body of work on canvas and paper. This exhibition will be on view at Sagan Piechota Architecture, at 315 Linden Street in San Francisco, from October 21 until November 21, 2009.

In this second solo exhibition with the gallery, Connally builds a connection between language of abstraction and perception of landscape, retaining the initial experiences in drawings then translating them into "talking points" for the paintings. As the most involved after years of experimentation with different visual resources, Drawn Out Conversations successfully balances the abstract with the non-objective. Influenced by Alice Neel and Joan Mitchell, here Connally alludes to the natural world without directly depicting it. In addition, for this selection, Connally is expanding on a strategy already in embryo in the past year, whereby a particular image is developed in two different media. This can be seen with the drawing/painting pair titled "Changing Tides", in which the painting came first, and the drawing second. Because of its immediacy, the drawing provides an inherently more intimate experience, and communicates the artist's intentionality more directly, while the painting continues the conversation while adding new layers of vision and meaning. Connally's work then offers compelling investigations in transferring this same immediacy from one medium to another.

A figurative artist in the past, Connally successfully renewed her artistic practices in order to fearlessly turn landscapes into abstractions. Originally from Oklahoma, Connie Connally lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. She shows in Texas, California, and New York, and has won several awards nationwide.

Artist reception: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pm
At Sagan Piechota Architecture, 315 Linden street (@ Octavia).
Viewing hours: Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am to 6 pm. Friday and Saturday by appointment.