KIM CONNERTON

Art Works

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Images 1.-4.-“Mary” is a video installation-installed in the cave at Branchville Gallery’s outdoor sculpture garden thru August 17, 05—The digital video is a 2.5-minute loop projected 8’ X 10’ onto a wall inside the cave and was completed in 2004. The shower is where we cleanse ourselves and “Mary” explores spiritual cleansing through the use of repeated images of me in the shower being cleansed and eventually merging into an intense light as the last few scenes in the video are intensely bright. “Ave Maria” sung by Kiri Te Kanawa-the soundtrack for “Mary” celebrates the repetitive act of cleansing and refers to the Blessed Mother-Mary as a source of divine light. In “Mary” the everyday activity of showering can become a chance for enlightenment

Images 5-7.-“Perfect Mao-Perfect Day” is an installation that was part of The Peekskill Project 2004 in Peekskill, NY. This sculpture is made up of 93 roles of toilet paper, a photo of me as Mao Tse Tung 20” X 23”, a yellow star with a poem by Mao on it, and 27 notebooks hanging over a small red pyramid of hand-made Mao toilet paper. “Perfect Mao-Perfect Day” was installed in the front windows of the Westchester Art Center filling a bank of 5 windows totaling 10’ X 17.5’. “Perfect Mao-Perfect Day” was sandwiched behind the five glass windows and in front of a royal blue curtain the length of the installation.

Images 8-9.-“40 Days- a check in with myself” This drawing/installation is comprised of 40 drawings. Each day for 40 days I took a color polaroid of myself and wrote with pen the thoughts that were in my mind around the Polaroid that I pasted on the center of paper I took that day. “40 Days…” began on December 15, 02 and ended on January 24,03. “40 Days” is based on the psychological /spiritual notion that self reflection and focus on a given point for the prescribed 40 days will bring change e.g. Christ was in the desert for 40 days. I was focused on discovering what was on my mind. I wanted to acknowledge the act of self-reflection and self-discovery.

Image 10.-“The Woman Who Loved Men”, digital video, 49 seconds, 2004
This video is inspired by Francois Truffaut’s film “The Man Who Loved Women”-in particular the scene where the desperate man watches women walk with such detail and desire. In “The Women Who Loved Men” I reverse the gender roles and (as a woman) stare at men with humour rather than blatant desire.

Image 11.-“Nico, Funny Valentine”, HI8, 3 minutes and 18 Seconds, 2002
In this video I dressed up and performed as Nico from The Velvet Underground.

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KIM CONNERTON
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Education

1993: The Cooper Union, Performance Art & Writing, NY

1992: BFA in Painting, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1991: AICAD NY Studio Program, Competition by Invitation Only, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2004
Nico, Funny Valentine, Video Installation, Realform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

2000
New Paintings, Rome Arts, Brooklyn, NY

1997
MEDIaTATIONS, Video Installation with Eiko Sakai/Architect, 57 Hope, Brooklyn, NY

1996
scenarios/life, Sculpture Installation, Soho 20 Gallery, NY

1991
BFA Thesis Exhibition, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2005
Shoot, Curated by Jessica Lauretti, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Video Showcase, Curated by Kimsu Theiler, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; Melbourne vs. New York, Curated by Bryan Zanisnik, “The Woman Who Loved Men”, video, Royal Melbourne Institute, Melbourne, Australia; “Unnatural”, “Mary”, Video, Branchville Gallery, Branchville, CT; NurtureArt Benefit, Curated by Alison Levy, Spike Gallery, Chelsea, NY

2004
Intimacy, Brooklyn Fireproof, Curated by David Gibson, Brooklyn, NY; Perfect Mao/Perfect Day, Sculpture Installation, Peekskill Project, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY; Groundswell Benefit, White Columns, NY; Sideshow Benefit for Women’s Cancers, Brooklyn, NY; Store A-front, The Lab, Roger Smith Lab, NY; “Mary”, video, “Water Piece for Yoko Ono”, Praxis, ISE Cultural Foundation, Soho, NY; Famiglia, Ciao Bella, Brooklyn, NY; Mouth Breathers, NurtureArt Gallery and Curatorial Resource Center, Brooklyn, NY

2003
Praxis Pays Homage to Duchamp, LMCC/Woolworth Building, NY; Parts of a Whole, 210 Varet, Brooklyn, NY

2002
“Made-Up”, Aquatic Creations, Brooklyn, NY; The Brewster Project, Curated by Alison Levy, Brewster, NY; See Through, Satellite Project Space, Queens, NY

2000
Benefit, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY

1999
Coming Soon, Curated by Daniel Carello, Rome Arts, Brooklyn, NY; Mediatations, Video, Artists Space, NY; Reading Affair, Kosai Hori, “Global Conceptualism”, Queens Museum of Art, NY

1998
Benefit, 57 Hope, Brooklyn, NY; Benefit, Pat Hearn Gallery, NY

1997
New York Drawers, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Travels To--Gasworks Gallery, London & Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England; Home/Scene, Kunsthalle Hamburg, traveled thru Germany; Gramercy Art Fair, Pierogi Gallery, Gramercy Hotel, NY; The Chamber Pot Show, Lower East Side Museum, NY; Lotus Ring, Empire State Park, Brooklyn, NY

1995
Time Capsule, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY

1994
8, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY; Studio 107, Brooklyn, NY

1992
air bell, Empire State Park, Brooklyn, NY

1991
AICAD Open House, NY, NY, 1991

Lectures
2005 Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Art & Design, NY, NY, 2005
1993 Visiting Artist, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1993

Shows Curated

2004
White Columns by Mark Power, paintings, sculpture, and photos, The Globe Gallery, NY
Struggle in Paradise by Flavia Souza, photos, Realform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

Publications

2005
Exploring Iconography in Contemporary Art, L.P.Streitfeld, The Advocate & Greenwich Times
Greenwich, CT, July 24, 2005
Two New Exhibits…, Margaret Roleke, The Pilot, Redding, CT, July 7, 2005

2004
The Star Gallery, Rory Glaeseman, The Star, Westchester, NY, September 18 issue

2002
Tackling Replacement, Alison Levy, Nimham Times, Brewster, NY, Summer issue
Arts Festival Transforms Brewster, Imogene Drummond, Nimham Times, Brewster, NY, Summer issue

1999
Shelter, Toni Schlesinger, The Village Voice, March 17-23
From New York, Shin Bijutsu Shinbun, Japan, 6-1-99

1997
The Chamber Pot Show, Jay Grimm, www.creview.com, 1-17 to 4-6

1995
Time Capsule, A Concise Encyclopedia of Women Artists, Edited by Robin Kahn, Creative Time, NY

Grants & Awards
2004 Change, Inc., 2004
1990 Michael Leone Senior Prize, The University of the Arts, Phila., PA, 1990
1989 Larry Day Award, The University of the of Arts, Phila., PA, 1989

Collections
Arnold Katzen
Christopher Ho

KIM CONNERTON HOME BASE

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Here is the new internet site for artworks and statements by Kim Connerton. Keep checking for the new, the marvelous, and the irascible art of this fine artist--David Gibson