ANN CONNELLY FINE ART: February 2011

This week at Ann Connelly Fine Art………

February 1, 2011

"Perspectives" Exhibition at Shaw Center

In conjunction with the Ernest Gaines Award for Liteary Excellence artworks by seven African-American artists from Louisiana including Emerson Bell, Eric J. Brown, Randell Henry, Demond Matsuo, Larry Nevil, John Scott and Christopher Turner will be on exhibition at the Shaw Center through the month of February. The exhibition is co-curated by Derek Gordon, CEO of The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and Ann Connelly, Ann Connelly Fine Art

January 28, 2011

Gallery Artwork Featured on New Cruise Ship

Oceania Cruise Line launched the maiden voyage of its new luxury ocean liner Marina featuring artwork by gallery artists Chuck Voelter, George Marks and Meredith Pardue. The commissioned works are featured in the ship's restaurants and public spaces.

Oceania’s Marina Cruise Ship

Lalique Staircase

Owner's Suite

January 15, 2011
Intaglios at the gallery…..

19^th C European Touring Intaglio on Belgian Linen with Gold Gesso Frame

January 1, 2011

January 1, 2011
Introducing new gallery artist Hayes Friedman

We are pleased to announce the recent inclusion to the gallery of Washington, DC artist Hayes Friedman. Hayes, a nationally recognized artist, has been greatly admired by the gallery for years. She works primarily in oils on canvas or panel using multiple layers to create a very refined surface quality.

Artworks currently available at the gallery

Adana and Grayson Oil on Canvas 60" X 60"

Seated in Sienna Oil on Canvas 50" X 50"

Odile and Odette Oil on Canvas 50" X 50"

Hayes Friedman Biography

Hayes Friedman was born in 1942 and has been working as a figure painter since the seventies.

Hayes studied drawing from in situ sculpture in Greece and Italy, and holds graduate degrees in fine arts and the history of art from The American University. The many tertiary aspects of her education include medical school anatomy, Cycladic figure study and post masters study in aesthetic theory and tensions and abstractions in figure painting.

A retired professor of drawing and painting with thirty years cumulative and overlapping experience at the university and college level, Hayes was inducted into Who’s Who Among Americas Educators in 2002.

Primarily, but not exclusively, a big format painter, her unique and reductive choices result in highly charged yet extremely quiet imagery. Surface distractions decoration,everything extraneous is eliminated, and what remains is deceptively simply painting which exudes a moody, isolated beauty.

Her haunting images have been exhibited over 250 times in museums, colleges, universities, public forums and private galleries, and her work is represented in an impressive number of permanent collections, both private and public, in this country, Europe and South America. Hayes Friedman’s paintings have been written about and photographed extensively for major publications.

November 10, 2010

November 8, 2010

Ann Connelly Fine Art & Bviz Design in Houston

Artworks from Ann Connelly Fine Art and pillows from Bviz Design are being featured in a 3 day show at Watkins Culver Antiques and Design of Houston – 2308 Bissonet St./Houston, TX