workshops/field trips
KELLI CONNELL "The events portrayed in these photographs look believable, yet have never occurred." Kelli Connell on her work, Double Life Kelli Connell’s body of work entitled Double Life has been widely received and included in numerous national and international exhibitions. In the work she photographs the same model, and using digital manipulation, creates the illusion of two women involved in a relationship. The images are inspired by private relationships she has experienced herself or witnessed in other. Connell holds an MFA from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Dallas Museum of Art, and Light Work. Recent publications of her work include Photo Art: The New World of Photography published by Aperture; Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography published by Phaidon; and MP3: Midwest Photographers' Publication Project co-published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography (http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/). Kelli Connell teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Additional images can be viewed at www.kelliconnell.com. In addition to talking about her work, she will also provide an introduction to the MP3 project which offers a rotating collection of portfolios by prominent and emerging photographers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. More of Kelli's work can be seen at www.kelliconnell.com. Kelli Connell's lecture will take place Thursday, October 7 at 7 p.m. at the Center for Photography at Madison, 303 S. Paterson Street, Madison.
KELLI CONNELL
"The events portrayed in these photographs look believable, yet have never
occurred." Kelli Connell on her work, Double Life
Kelli Connell’s body of work entitled Double Life has been widely received
and included in numerous national and international exhibitions. In the work
she photographs the same model, and using digital manipulation, creates the
illusion of two women involved in a relationship. The images are inspired by
private relationships she has experienced herself or witnessed in other.
Connell holds an MFA from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Her
work is in the collections of Microsoft; Los Angeles County Museum of Art;
Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Dallas Museum of Art, and Light
Work. Recent publications of her work include Photo Art: The New World of
Photography published by Aperture; Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in
Photography published by Phaidon; and MP3: Midwest Photographers'
Publication Project co-published by Aperture and The Museum of
Contemporary Photography (http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/).
Kelli Connell teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Additional images can be
viewed at www.kelliconnell.com. In addition to talking about her work, she
will also provide an introduction to the MP3 project which offers a rotating
collection of portfolios by prominent and emerging photographers from Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
More of Kelli's work can be seen at www.kelliconnell.com. Kelli Connell's
lecture will take place Thursday, October 7 at 7 p.m. at the Center for
Photography at Madison, 303 S. Paterson Street, Madison.