Dan Connally's colorful paintings on wood are each framed by the artist as if to address their traditional role as objects contemplated in the manner of art appreciation. In any other sense, Connally’s paintings are not conventional and provide the viewer with unexpected possibilities. They remind us of multiple periods and genres, and offer engaging references to both representation and abstraction. They can be humorous and straightforward.
Dan Connally’s small contemplative compo-sitions imply that the viewer is looking into more than just invented abstract space. Whether viewed as an ambiguous landscape or nature morte his works are playfully developed with objects or shapes only slightly defined by outline and color. Both the forms and palette of Connally’s paintings pay reverence to earlier painting, at times early Renaissance or early 20th Century.
The results of Connally’s process and respectful allusion are richly meditative, exploratory pictorial spaces.
Connally teaches painting at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught periodically in Italy, studying the masters with a modernist’s eye.
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