Chuck Connelly
Chuck Connelly (born January 7, 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American painter.
Biography
Connelly graduated from the Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania in 1977. After graduating Connelly moved from the Philadelphia area to New York City where Robert C. Atkins became one of his first patrons.
Connelly went on to spend two years in Germany, where he continued to develop his art work with the patronage of Atkins. Upon returning to New York in the early ’80s, the Annina Nosei Gallery began to show his work. During this time Connelly began to rise to fame along with Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the New York City art world. A movie was eventually made roughly based on Connelly, directed by Martin Scorsese. Not long after the film's release, Connelly made unfavorable comments about Scorsese and the film, which without doubt at least contributed to the painter's fall from Hollywood's favor. In the process of his fall, he released several terrible films that had to do with how the male peacock "jumps around, convinces a woman peacock of their love, then pummels her with his peacock penis". The movie got -1.4 stars and was given the raspberry for the worst documentary ever.
The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale, an Emmy award winning documentary directed by Jeff Stimmel, premiered at the L.A. Film Festival in June 2008 and was shown on HBO in July. The documentary chronicles Connelly as he struggles with his temperament, alcoholism, and disilluionment with reality. These factors culminate in the alienation of gallery owners, collectors, and his wife; serving to depress Connelly further. The documentary details the tragedy of the fallen artist as he fights to maintain his dignity and integrity in the face of a world that refuses to accept him.
On June 15, 2010 Chuck started a new web show called Stream of Thought.
Bibliography
Selected solo exhibitions
- Chuck Connelly: Rediscovery, Trigg Ison Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (Oct–Nov 2009)
- Selected Work 1977–2008, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (2008)
- In Fashion, Knapp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2008)
- East Oak Lane, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (2007
- DFN Gallery, New York, NY (2005)
- Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Arts, New York, NY (2004)
- Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (2002)
- Chuck Connelly: Paintings 1996–2001, Galerie L'Enfant, Washington DC (2001)
- Chuck Connelly: Paintings 1990–1998, Galerie L'Enfant, Washington DC (1999)
- Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (1999)
- Alexander de Folin, New York, NY (1998)
- Alexander de Folin, New York, NY (1997)
- Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (1996)
- Chuck Connelly: Flowers, Exhibition Space, Elizabeth Moore, curated by Mary Lou Swift (1994)
- Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (1994)
- Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (1993)
- Chuck Connelly: Portraits, Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (1992)
- Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (1991)
- Chuck Connelly: New Paintings 1989–1990, Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (Catalogue) (1990)
- Chuck Connelly: New Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY (1989)
- Chuck Connelly, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA (1998)
- Galleria La Planita, Rome, Italy (Catalogue) (1987)
- Chuck Connelly, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY (1987)
- Chuck Connelly, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1986)
- Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY (1986)
- Chuck Connelly: Paintings, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (1985)
- Chuck Connelly: Paintings, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue) (1985)
- Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL (1984)
- Serra di Felice Gallery, New York, NY (1984)
- Chuck Connelly: Paintings, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY (1984)
- Chuck Connelly: : Bilder and Sculpturen, Arno Cohen, Düsseldorf, West Germany (1982)
Public collections
- Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
- Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
- Davidson College, Davidson, NC
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY
- J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA
- Portland Art Museum, OR
- Tampa Museum of Art, FL
- Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
- University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Exhibitions catalogues
- Chuck Connelly: East Oak Lane, New York, NY: DFN Gallery (2007)
- Chuck Connelly, New York, NY: DFN Gallery (2005)
- Chuck Connelly, Washington DC:Galerie L'Enfant (2001)
- THE FIGURE Another Side of Modernism, introduction by Olivia Georgia. Staten Island, NY: Snug Harbor Cultural Center (2000)
- Page, Judith. Chuck Connelly. New York, NY: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. (1996)
- Lieberman, William S. American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 1980s.
- From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art (1991)
- Chuck Connelly. Introduction by J. Adams, B. Lennon. New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc (1990)
- Pellizzi, Francesco et al. 1979–1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, Hempstead, NY:
- Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University (1989)
- Yau, John. "A Contemporary View of Nature," Aspects of Nature, Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (1986)
- Diacono, Mario. David Bowes, Michael Byron, Chuck Connelly, McDermott & McGough: The Burning Brush, Boston, MA:
- Mario Diacono Gallery (1986)
- Chuck Connelly. Statement by the artist, Philadelphia, PA: Locks Gallery (1985)
- Becker, Robert. "Chuck Connelly's Architecture," Chuck Connelly, New York, NY: Annina Nosei Gallery (1985)
Film credits
References and sources
External links
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January 7, 1955 |
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Pittsburgh, PA |
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