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For Immediate Release
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April 24, 2009
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Contact: Kathleen Arffmann, Director, Salmagundi Club
Phone: (212) 255-7740
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In/Sight = On/Site
Mary K. Connelly and Ella Yang to Exhibit Recent Paintings at The Salmagundi Club in NYC
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May 30 - June 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 30, 3:00 - 6:00 PM
Closing Reception: Thursday, June 11, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 1:00 - 6:00 PM; Thursdays,
1:00 - 8:00 PM
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NEW YORK, NY - The Salmagundi Club is pleased to present In/Sight = On/Site, an exhibition of oil paintings by Mary K. Connelly and Ella Yang that opens to the public on Saturday, May 30, 2009, on view in the Patrons' Gallery. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, May 30, 3-6 p.m. and a closing reception on Thursday, June 11, 6-8 p.m. The gallery will be open Wednesdays through Sundays, 1-6 p.m., and Thursdays, 1-8 p.m. Visitors may also view the exhibition by appointment at other times by contacting the Club to make arrangements.
In/Sight
= On/Site references the complementary perspectives of
Connelly and Yang. Both Connelly's small-scale interiors and
Yang's cityscapes and landscapes convey an intimate sense of Love
of Place. For Connelly, love of place recalls
Bachelard's notion that "the house is our first universe, a
real cosmos in every sense of the word." Yang's love of
place emerges from the possibility of beauty in mundane
corners of her neighborhoods. The concept of place stirs
powerful emotions; place can be sacred, personal, universal, and
culturally significant. Connelly explains, "My paintings
are a distillation of perception and memory, where color and
light convey a world psychologically and spiritually charged;
interior space is presented as a chamber for meditation, evoking
memories or daydreams of a beloved solitary place." Yang,
who primarily paints en plein air, states, "My
goal is to capture the spirit of a scene at a particular
instance, especially the effects of light. When it's all working
well, painting can be a form of highly active meditation, a way
to pay visual homage to the bounty in my life."
To see examples of the artists' work, please visit: www.maryconnelly.com
and www.ellayangstudio.com.
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Mary K. Connelly
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Orange Couch, oil on panel, 7 x 10 in.
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Mary K. Connelly is an assistant professor and Area Head of the Painting and Drawing Program at University of Colorado Denver. She received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2000. The artist has been featured in 11 one-person shows over the past 13 years and has been in numerous selected group exhibitions including First Street Gallery in New York City and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in San Francisco. Connelly is currently represented by the Van Straaten Gallery in Denver.
For additional images, please visit
www.maryconnelly.com or send an email to:
mary@maryconnelly.com
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Ella Yang
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Yellow Truck in Gowanus, oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in.
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Ella Yang is based in Brooklyn, NY, and is a member of the Salmagundi Club. Mostly self-taught, Yang's passion for painting was kindled during a 3-week intensive fine art program at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy in 2001. She has shown her work in 4 solo exhibitions and close to 24 group exhibitions in the past 5 years, including the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City.
For additional images, please visit
EllaYangStudio.com or send an email to
yangella@aol.com.
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Salmagundi Club
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The Salmagundi Club, an arts organization
since 1871, is dedicated
primarily to the exhibition of
fine art - paintings, graphics,
sculpture and photography -
created by living American
artists. Housed in a historical
brownstone mansion in Greenwich
Village, through the years the
Club has been the singular
gathering place for such great
artists as Thomas Moran, Childe
Hassam, William Merritt Chase,
Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Carl
Rungius, Ernest Blumenschein,
Charles Dana Gibson, and many
others.
For more information about the Club, please visit
www.salmagundi.org.
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Representational oil
paintings made in Brooklyn without irony