The first public exhibition of nearly 40 new additions to the museum’s collection, including an important gift of works on paper by Otis Dozier and Velma Davis Dozier from Denni Davis Washburn. Ranging from early Texas prints and drawings to contemporary painting and sculpture, the gifts featured in this exhibition have enriched and broadened the museum’s collections of Texas art and Ceramic art, two of SAMFA’s focus areas of collecting.

The exhibition also includes works by Xavier Gonzalez (museum purchase with funds from Anne Shahan), Roger Allen and Akio Takamori (gifts of Pam Bladine in memory of Roger Allen), Jack Earl (a gift of John Williams), and Lee Albert Hill, Jesús Toro Martinez, Connie Connally, Tom Coleman and Frank Boyden (gifts of the artists).

SELECTED WORK

SELECTED WORK

Curated by Peter Frank, LA Art Critic
Organized by Connie Connally

I am very proud to be a leader for our group, 21st Century Abstraction and in the creation of our traveling exhibition, Towards a 21st Century Abstraction.

21C is made up of seven masterful painters working in studios across the country. Their works have been exhibited and collected extensively across the United States and internationally. They include Connie Connally, Wosene Kosrof, Brad Ellis, David Bailin, Jeri Ledbetter, Katherine Chang Liu, and Sammy Peters. These seven artists come from seven diverse backgrounds, have seven differing techniques, but all have an abiding sense of trust that their work contributes to the continued value of abstraction in this century.

EXHIBITING

SELECTED WORKS

SELECTED WORKS

SELECTED WORKS

“People I Know” first exhibited in “Face to Face”, The Stage Gallery, NY, June, 2000.

 (First 12 panels exhibited)

 The New York Times featured the painting in the Art Section, June 4, 2000.  

"People I Know" also exhibited in the following venues receiving many best of show awards and featured in newspapers, magazines and internet sites across the country: 

“2000/44th Annual International Exhibition”, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA.  

Juror: Don Bacigalupi, Ph.D., Director, San Diego Museum of Art. September, 2000 

(12 panels exhibited)

“2000 Art in the Metroplex”, Moudy Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX 

Juror: Annette Di Meo Carlozzi, Curator of American and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art 

(12 panels exhibited)

“2001 Biennial Juried Exhibition”, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX (28 panels exhibited) 

Jurors' Awardof $1500.

Article in The Gallery Guide of The Dallas Morning News, May 18-24, 2001 by Mike Daniel.  

"People I Know" solo exhibit, Craighead Green Gallery, February, 2001.

(Complete suite of 90 panels exhibited)

Annabelle Massey-Helber of the Dallas Observer, wrote “Face Time”, an in-depth story about the year long project.  Christy Hughes-Babb of Where Dallas, featured the painting in “What’s On Dallas”, March, 2001.

“2001 Art in the Metroplex”, Moudy Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX

(90 panels exhibited)

Hawn Foundation Award; $2000 cash award.

Juror: Laurence Miller, Founding Director, ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX. 

“Ulrich Alumni Exhibition” Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, Dec. 1, 2001-Jan. 27, 2002.  

(80 panels exhibited)

“Artwork of Distinction”; $1500 cash award.

Juror: Charles Steiner, Director, Wichita Art Museum.  

Featured on the Ulrich Museum catalogue andThe Wichita Eagle's Bud Norman declared the portrait series as the crowd favorite in his article December 7, 2001.  WSU Fine Arts, Winter 2002 and inside WSU, Volume 18, Number 7, November 15, 2001 did a feature story about Connally and “People I Know” by Julie Rausch.

"People I Know" Solo Exhibit, The Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College Center for the Arts, Dallas, TX, May 13, 2002 through August 22, 2002.  

"People I Know" Solo Exhibit, The McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Aug. 29-Sept. 27, 2002.

Featured in Arts and Entertainment, Midland Reporter-Telegram, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002 

and El Paisano, Sept 20, 2002.