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Since opening in 1999, Conner Contemporary Art (CCA) has mobilized the careers of artists who excel in diverse media. Owner Leigh Conner brings professional integrity and over a decade of experience to the Gallery's selective participation in exhibitions at international venues including art fairs, museums, and project spaces. Together with co-founder Jamie Smith, Ph.D., Conner has steadily developed a contemporary curatorial program grounded in the history of art, presenting the art of Washington-based artists in meaningful dialogue with the art of established international artists.
CCA promotes art that contributes to important movements, with particular focuses on abstraction and realism. The Gallery presented color field exhibitions featuring works by Morris Louis and Gene Davis and reintroduced the art of 1950s-1960s Washington color painters Howard Mehring and Thomas Downing with newly published source material. CCA has consistently encouraged vital new experimentation in abstract imaging, presenting seminal work in four solo exhibitions by internationally renowned digital light artist Leo Villareal, and supporting his recent 200-foot installation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Complementary to its abstract programming, the Gallery advances exceptional figural art, such as the oil painting of Erik Thor Sandberg, the most powerful young successor to the DC realist movement, which originated in the 1970s. Sandberg's contemporary figural allegories of virtue and vice are conversant with photographs by Swedish artist Maria Friberg and sculptures by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Ethical questions evoked by their works resonate with problems of gender, sexuality and race confronted in figural drawings by Baltimore artist Zoë Charlton and in endurance performances by Washington, DC artist Mary Coble.
CCA is located in a newly converted industrial building recently acquired and renovated by Conner and Smith. In DC's Atlas Arts District, the Gallery occupies a 7,000-square foot ground-level complex with two indoor galleries, a dedicated media room, and an open courtyard exhibition space. Providing museum-scale exhibition areas for established artists and project spaces for young talent, CCA continues to strengthen its artistic dossier.
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1358 Florida Avenue, NE - Washington, DC 20002
phone: + 202 - 588 - 8750
email:
summer hours: Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm.
gallery staff:
Leigh Conner: Partner, Director
Jamie Smith, Ph.D.: Partner, Curator
Martha Joseph: Assistant Director
Patrick McDonough: Assistant Director
Peter Tsouras: Preparator
Conner Contemporary Art is not currently accepting artist submissions.
**unsolicited materials will be discarded; unsolicited emails will be deleted**
conner / *gogo emerging art projects is accepting project-based proposals through June 1, 2010.
for details : click here
Exhibition images and artist reproductions by Brandon Webster Photography.
CCA promotes art that contributes to important movements, with particular focuses on abstraction and realism. The Gallery presented color field exhibitions featuring works by Morris Louis and Gene Davis and reintroduced the art of 1950s-1960s Washington color painters Howard Mehring and Thomas Downing with newly published source material. CCA has consistently encouraged vital new experimentation in abstract imaging, presenting seminal work in four solo exhibitions by internationally renowned digital light artist Leo Villareal, and supporting his recent 200-foot installation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Complementary to its abstract programming, the Gallery advances exceptional figural art, such as the oil painting of Erik Thor Sandberg, the most powerful young successor to the DC realist movement, which originated in the 1970s. Sandberg's contemporary figural allegories of virtue and vice are conversant with photographs by Swedish artist Maria Friberg and sculptures by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Ethical questions evoked by their works resonate with problems of gender, sexuality and race confronted in figural drawings by Baltimore artist Zoë Charlton and in endurance performances by Washington, DC artist Mary Coble.
CCA is located in a newly converted industrial building recently acquired and renovated by Conner and Smith. In DC's Atlas Arts District, the Gallery occupies a 7,000-square foot ground-level complex with two indoor galleries, a dedicated media room, and an open courtyard exhibition space. Providing museum-scale exhibition areas for established artists and project spaces for young talent, CCA continues to strengthen its artistic dossier.
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1358 Florida Avenue, NE - Washington, DC 20002
phone: + 202 - 588 - 8750email: summer hours: Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm.
Leigh Conner: Partner, Director
Jamie Smith, Ph.D.: Partner, Curator
Martha Joseph: Assistant Director
Patrick McDonough: Assistant Director
Peter Tsouras: Preparator
Conner Contemporary Art is not currently accepting artist submissions.
**unsolicited materials will be discarded; unsolicited emails will be deleted**
conner / *gogo emerging art projects is accepting project-based proposals through June 1, 2010.
for details : click here
Exhibition images and artist reproductions by Brandon Webster Photography.