Connie Connally & Sammy Peters Fusion
CONNIE CONNALLY & SAMMY PETERS FUSION APRIL 3 - MAY 10. 2015
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cover: (left) Sammy Peters, Journey: projecting; space, 2014, oil and mixed media on canvas, 60” x 48” (right) Connie Connally, Shoreline Sirens, 2014, oil on canvas, 72” x 55”
Connie Connally, Untamed, 2014, oil on canvas, 42” x 96”
Connie Connally & Sammy Peters FUSION With a career spanning nearly 50 years, abstract painter Sammy Peters skillfully composes complex canvasses with a powerful and sensuous combination of expressive brushwork, iterative marks, drips and mixed-media collage. He is heralded for his sophisticated interplay of shape and line, opacity and translucence, color and texture, material and image. His elegant hues, architectonic forms, and surface intricacies interplay to chart spontaneous explorations of the artist’s personal being and inspire quietly agitated dialogue between negative space and poetic figure. Improvisational and rigorously understated, Peter’s work actively reexamines and recombines diverse media and languages of painting in a singular combination of cold wax media, luminous resins, and richly saturated oils. His complex interplay of collaged papers and patterned fabrics, muted color blocks, calligraphic scribbles, and paint handling -- as subtly referential as it is boldly gestural -affirms Peter’s place at the vanguard of contemporary abstraction, and yet maintains his roots in painterly vernacular tradition.
several exhibition catalogues. Peter’s paintings continue to experience increasing curatorial and critical attention and are included in a growing number of esteemed public institutions and private collections internationally.
Sammy Peters earned his arts education at the Arkansas Arts Center School of Arts and Drama, Little Rock University, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Presented in over seventy solo and group exhibitions, his work has garnered numerous awards and is the subject of
Connie Connally was educated at Oklahoma University and Wichita State University, later earning her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and is included in numerous public and private collections.
Using a palette of organic color and caligraphic brushstroke that combine to serve as imprint of the artist’s profound passion for nature, Connie Connally paints graceful canvasses of liminal elegance with imagery that teeters between representational reference and powerful abstraction. From her experience of nature, Connally extracts essential elements and fragments of impression from colors, forms, and sensation. Each painting is a composite of what is remembered and what is imagined from her exuberant sense of being in nature. Rich, multi-layered surfaces of sun-drenched color morph, coalesce and juxtapose in quietly energetic rhythms. Connally’s poetic colorscapes with their expressive brushwork, sweeping gestural marks, and animated cadence, begin in plein air and situate her work as a unique and exciting form of abstracted landscape.
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Sammy Peters, Emergence: shadow; memory, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 60” x 48” 3
Sammy Peters, Ceasing: decoded; allegory, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 48” x 60”
Sammy Peters, Essence: inseparable; illusion, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 72” x 60” 6
Sammy Peters, Momentary: accesible; appearance, 2012, oil and mixed media on canvas, 72” x 60”
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Sammy Peters, Perspective: question; solitude, 2015, oil and mixed media on paper on board, 40” x 19” 8
Sammy Peters, Repose: unquiet; determination, 2015, oil and mixed media on paper on board, 40� x 30� 9
Sammy Peters, Impulse: significant; origin, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 52� x 68�
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 21, 2015, oil and mixed media college, 12� x 16� 12
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 20, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 16� x 12� 13
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 19, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 16� x 12� 14
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 18, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 12� x 16� 15
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 17, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 16� x 12� 16
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 16, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 12� x 16� 17
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 15, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 12� x 16� 18
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 9, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11� x 14� 19
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 12, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11� x 14�
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 11, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11� x 14� 22
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 10, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11� x 14� 23
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 13, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11� x 14� 24
Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 14, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 11� x 14� 25
Connie Connally, Pools, 2014-15, oil on canvas, 39” x 80”
Connie Connally, Blue on Blue, 2014, oil on canvas, 50” x 52” 28
Connie Connally, Pink, 2015, oil on canvas, 50” x 52” 29
Connie Connally, Yellow, 2014, oil on canvas, 50” x 52” 30
Connie Connally, Free Fallin, 2014, oil on canvas, 40” x 54” 31
Connie Connally, Edge of Summer, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36” 32
Connie Connally, October, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36” 33
Connie Connally, Pink Fluid Spaces I, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36” 34
Connie Connally, Pink Fluid Spaces II, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36” 35
Connie Connally, Feeling of Falling, 2014, oil on canvas, 32” x 23” 36
Connie Connally, Cool Clear Water, 2014, oil on canvas, 32” x 22” 37
Connie Connally, Forever Autumn, 2014, oil on canvas, 24” x 24” 38
Connie Connally, Shoreline Grasses II, 2014, oil on canvas, 22” x 22” 39
Connie Connally, Whimsy II, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36”
Connie Connally, Shoreline Grasses I, 2014, oil on canvas, 22” x 32” 42
Connie Connally, Whimsy III, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36” 43
Connie Connally, Whimsy I, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36” 44
Connie Connally, Whimsy IV, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36” 45
CONNIE CONNALLY 2006
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002
McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland, TX
2001
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
1999
Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX The American Kennel Club, New York, NY 1997
Anasazi Gallery, Dallas, TX ERL Originals Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
1996
Southwest Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015
Connie Connally & Sammy Peters: Fusion, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe,
2013-14
Now and Then, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2013
5 x 7 Splurge, AMOA, Austin, TX
EDUCATION
Six Rising Stars, LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
2004
Face of California, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA
MFA, Southern Methodist
Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
University, Dallas, TX 1975
2012
BFA, Wichita State
Lift 2012, Westmont Ridley- Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
University, Wichita, KS
Experiencing Perspectives 2012-2013, Mercedes-Benz Financial
1970-73
Oklahoma University
Services, Ft. Worth, TX
1988
Scottsdale Artist School, studied with John Asaro
Off the Wall, Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board, Santa Barbara, CA
1977-80 The Illustrators Workshop in New York, Paris and St. Marteen, studied
5 x 7 Splurge, AMOA and Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
with Bernard Fuchs, Mark English, Alan Cober, Robert Heindel and 2011
Robert Peak 1981
2010
2011
Juror’s Award, Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2007
ArtHouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Art Council Award, Juror, Howard Fox, curator emeritus of
2006
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art at LACMA
2005
Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
Far and Near, East Texas Regional, Longview Museum of Fine Arts,
2004
MFA Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Longview, TX
2002
2003
Best Portrait Artist in Dallas, “Best of Dallas Awards,” Dallas Observer
2001
Distinguished Art Award, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Two Woman Show, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX
2001
Hawn Foundation Award, Art in the Metroplex, Moudy Art Gallery, TCU,
The Stage Gallery, New York, NY Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Fort Worth, TX 2000
Hawn Foundation Award, “2001 Art in the Metroplex,” Texas Christian 2000
Santa Monica-The Art of Summer, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2012
Revelations: Women’s Art from the Permanent Collection, The Art Museum of South Texas
The School of Visual Arts, NY, studied with James McMullin
Art in the Metroplex, Moudy Art Gallery, TCU, Forth Worth, TX
University
San Diego Art Institute
Gold Medal, Visual Arts Alliances, Houston, TX
Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX 1999
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010
Outside Views on Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Beau Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Haines Gallery Solo Show, Sullivan Goss-An American Gallery, Santa
Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX
Barbara, CA Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
1998
Southern Accents Idea House, Charlotte, NC
Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1997
Neiman Marcus Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
1995
2007
MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA
2009
Portraits South, Raleigh, NC Beau Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
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SAMMY PETERS Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX 1992
The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (4 solo exhibitions 1986-1991)
1990
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
1989
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1987
The Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM (two person exhibition)
2012
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
2011
Winthrop Rockefeller Legacy Exhibition, Morrilton, AR
2010
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2009
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Multiple Impressions, New York, NY Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR
EDUCATION University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Los Angeles Art Show (exhibited by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe,
Little Rock University, Little Rock, AR
NM) at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA 2006
Arkansas Arts Center School of Arts and Drama, Little Rock, AR San Francisco
Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (5 group exhibitions 1998-2006)
Mime Troupe, San Francisco, CA 2005
Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2002
Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR, (3 group exhibitions 1995-2002)
2003
VSC Press Printmaking Fellowship.
2000
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2001
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.
1999
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY (3 group exhibitions 1995-1999)
2000
MacDowell Fellowship
1994
Berlin & Bremen, Germany, “Paintings from America’s Heart”
1992
M-AAA/NEA Fellowship
1993
1967
Juror’s Award, 10th Delta Annual
5th Annual Hendrix College Invitational, Conway, AR
1965
Juror’s Top Award, 10th Annual Mid-South Exhibition
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Universi ty of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL
The Collector Gallery, Washington, D.C. Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2008
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM (8 solo exhibitions 1999-2013)
1992
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
1988
Art 54 Gallery/The Wright Gallery, New York, NY
The Heights Gallery, Little Rock, AR (7 solo shows 1986-2008)
Center Gallery, Holt McPherson Center, High Point, NC
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC 11th Annual United States Print & Drawing Exhibition
2007
Multiple Impressions, New York, NY
2005
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1987-88
Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR, (3 solo exhibitions 1995-2004)
1987
2004
Arts & Science Ctr. of S.E. Arkansas
Film Selection: “End of the Line” University of Arkansas at Little Rock Arkansas Artists Registry Small Works Annual, Jonesboro, AR
Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2003
Hendrix College, Conway, AR
Mona Berman Fine Arts, New Haven, CT
2002
New Gallery, Houston, TX, (2 solo exhibitions 1989-2002)
Arkansas Artists Registry, AARt Annual, Little Rock, AR Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998
Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (2 solo exhibitions 1997-1998)
1996
Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (4 solo exhibitions 1992-1996)
1986
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995
The Bell Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1985
Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago, IL
1994
The New Gallery, Houston, TX
16th Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, San Marcos, TX
Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Artsource L.A., Los Angeles, CA
University of Central Ark., Conway, AR
Southern Contemporary Art Invitational, Jacksonville, AL
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
8th Annual Hot Springs Fine Art Center Annual, Hot Springs, AR
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR
24th Delta Annual, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
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