Connie Connally & Sammy PetersFusion

LewAllenGalleries

cover: (left) Sammy Peters, Journey: projecting; space, 2014, oil and mixed media on canvas, 60” x 48”(right) Connie Connally, Shoreline Sirens, 2014, oil on canvas, 72” x 55”

CONNIE CONNALLY & SAMMY PETERSFUSION

APRIL 3 - MAY 10. 2015

Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com

Connie Connally & Sammy Peters FUSION

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With a career spanning nearly 50 years, abstract painter Sammy Peters skillfully composes complex canvasses with a powerful and sensuous combination of expressive brushwork, iterative marks, drips and mixed-media collage. He is heralded for his sophisticated interplay of shape and line, opacity and translucence, color and texture, material and image. His elegant hues, architectonic forms, and surface intricacies interplay to chart spontaneous explorations of the artist’s personal being and inspire quietly agitated dialogue between negative space and poetic figure. Improvisational and rigorously understated, Peter’s work actively reexamines and recombines diverse media and languages of painting in a singular combination of cold wax media, luminous resins, and richly saturated oils. His complex interplay of collaged papers and patterned fabrics, muted color blocks, calligraphic scribbles, and paint handling -- as subtly referential as it is boldly gestural -- affirms Peter’s place at the vanguard of contemporary abstraction, and yet maintains his roots in painterly vernacular tradition.

Sammy Peters earned his arts education at the Arkansas Arts Center School of Arts and Drama, Little Rock University, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Presented in over seventy solo and group exhibitions, his work has garnered numerous awards and is the subject of

several exhibition catalogues. Peter’s paintings continue to experience increasing curatorial and critical attention and are included in a growing number of esteemed public institutions and private collections internationally.

Using a palette of organic color and caligraphic brushstroke that combine to serve as imprint of the artist’s profound passion for nature, Connie Connally paints graceful canvasses of liminal elegance with imagery that teeters between representational reference and powerful abstraction. From her experience of nature, Connally extracts essential elements and fragments of impression from colors, forms, and sensation. Each painting is a composite of what is remembered and what is imagined from her exuberant sense of being in nature. Rich, multi-layered surfaces of sun-drenched color morph, coalesce and juxtapose in quietly energetic rhythms. Connally’s poetic colorscapes with their expressive brushwork, sweeping gestural marks, and animated cadence, begin in plein air and situate her work as a unique and exciting form of abstracted landscape.

Connie Connally was educated at Oklahoma University and Wichita State University, later earning her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and is included in numerous public and private collections.

Connie Connally, Untamed, 2014, oil on canvas, 42” x 96”

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Sammy Peters, Emergence: shadow; memory, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 60” x 48”

Sammy Peters, Ceasing: decoded; allegory, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 48” x 60”

Sammy Peters, Essence: inseparable; illusion, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 72” x 60”

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Sammy Peters, Momentary: accesible; appearance, 2012, oil and mixed media on canvas, 72” x 60”

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Sammy Peters, Perspective: question; solitude, 2015, oil and mixed media on paper on board, 40” x 19”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: unquiet; determination, 2015, oil and mixed media on paper on board, 40” x 30”

Sammy Peters, Impulse: significant; origin, 2015, oil and mixed media on canvas, 52” x 68”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 21,2015, oil and mixed media college, 12” x 16”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 20, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 16” x 12”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 19, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 16” x 12”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 18, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 12” x 16”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 17, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 16” x 12”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 16, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 12” x 16”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 15, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 12” x 16”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 9, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11” x 14”

Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 12, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11” x 14”

Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 11, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11” x 14”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 10, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11” x 14”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 13, 2014, oil and mixed media collage, 11” x 14”

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Sammy Peters, Repose: significant; memory suite, No. 14, 2015, oil and mixed media collage, 11” x 14”

Connie Connally, Pools, 2014-15, oil on canvas, 39” x 80”

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Connie Connally, Blue on Blue, 2014, oil on canvas, 50” x 52”

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Connie Connally, Pink, 2015, oil on canvas, 50” x 52”

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Connie Connally, Yellow, 2014, oil on canvas, 50” x 52”

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Connie Connally, Free Fallin, 2014, oil on canvas, 40” x 54”

Connie Connally, Edge of Summer, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”

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Connie Connally, October, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”

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Connie Connally, Pink Fluid Spaces I, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”

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Connie Connally, Pink Fluid Spaces II, 2014, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”

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Connie Connally, Feeling of Falling, 2014, oil on canvas, 32” x 23”

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Connie Connally, Cool Clear Water, 2014, oil on canvas, 32” x 22”

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Connie Connally, Forever Autumn, 2014, oil on canvas, 24” x 24”

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Connie Connally, Shoreline Grasses II, 2014, oil on canvas, 22” x 22”

Connie Connally, Whimsy II, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36”

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Connie Connally, Shoreline Grasses I, 2014, oil on canvas, 22” x 32”

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Connie Connally, Whimsy III, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36”

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Connie Connally, Whimsy I, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36”

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Connie Connally, Whimsy IV, 2014, oil on canvas, 10” x 36”

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EDUCATION2004 MFA, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX1975 BFA, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 1970-73 Oklahoma University 1988 Scottsdale Artist School, studied with John Asaro 1977-80 The Illustrators Workshop in New York, Paris and St. Marteen, studied with Bernard Fuchs, Mark English, Alan Cober, Robert Heindel and Robert Peak1981 The School of Visual Arts, NY, studied with James McMullin GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS2012 Juror’s Award, Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Art Council Award, Juror, Howard Fox, curator emeritus of Contemporary Art at LACMA2011 Far and Near, East Texas Regional, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX2003 Best Portrait Artist in Dallas, “Best of Dallas Awards,” Dallas Observer2001 Distinguished Art Award, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS Hawn Foundation Award, Art in the Metroplex, Moudy Art Gallery, TCU, Fort Worth, TX Hawn Foundation Award, “2001 Art in the Metroplex,” Texas Christian University2000 Gold Medal, Visual Arts Alliances, Houston, TX

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2010 Haines Gallery Solo Show, Sullivan Goss-An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA2009 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA2008 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX2007 MMGalleries, San Francisco, CA

CONNIE CONNALLY

2006 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX2002 McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland, TX2001 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX1999 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX The American Kennel Club, New York, NY1997 Anasazi Gallery, Dallas, TX ERL Originals Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC1996 Southwest Art Gallery, Dallas, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2015 Connie Connally & Sammy Peters: Fusion, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, 2013-14 Now and Then, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2013 5 x 7 Splurge, AMOA, Austin, TX Six Rising Stars, LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ Face of California, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA2012 Lift 2012, Westmont Ridley- Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Experiencing Perspectives 2012-2013, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Ft. Worth, TX Off the Wall, Invitational, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board, Santa Barbara, CA 5 x 7 Splurge, AMOA and Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX2011 Revelations: Women’s Art from the Permanent Collection, The Art Museum of South Texas2010 Santa Monica-The Art of Summer, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art 2007 ArtHouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX2006 Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, CA2005 Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX2004 MFA Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX2002 Two Woman Show, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX2001 The Stage Gallery, New York, NY Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY2000 Art in the Metroplex, Moudy Art Gallery, TCU, Forth Worth, TX San Diego Art Institute Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX1999 Outside Views on Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Beau Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX1998 Southern Accents Idea House, Charlotte, NC1997 Neiman Marcus Gallery, Dallas, TX1995 Portraits South, Raleigh, NC Beau Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

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EDUCATIONUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, ARLittle Rock University, Little Rock, ARArkansas Arts Center School of Arts and Drama, Little Rock, AR San Francisco Mime Troupe, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS2003 VSC Press Printmaking Fellowship.2001 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.2000 MacDowell Fellowship1992 M-AAA/NEA Fellowship1967 Juror’s Award, 10th Delta Annual1965 Juror’s Top Award, 10th Annual Mid-South Exhibition

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2013 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM (8 solo exhibitions 1999-2013) Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA2008 The Heights Gallery, Little Rock, AR (7 solo shows 1986-2008) Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA2007 Multiple Impressions, New York, NY2005 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2004 Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR, (3 solo exhibitions 1995-2004) Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas, TX2003 Hendrix College, Conway, AR 2002 New Gallery, Houston, TX, (2 solo exhibitions 1989-2002)1998 Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (2 solo exhibitions 1997-1998) 1996 Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (4 solo exhibitions 1992-1996)1995 The Bell Gallery, Birmingham, MI The New Gallery, Houston, TX 1994 Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas, TX University of Central Ark., Conway, AR The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR

SAMMY PETERS

Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX1992 The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991 Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (4 solo exhibitions 1986-1991) 1990 University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 1989 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN 1987 The Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2015 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM (two person exhibition)2012 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock 2011 Winthrop Rockefeller Legacy Exhibition, Morrilton, AR 2010 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV2009 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Multiple Impressions, New York, NY Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR Los Angeles Art Show (exhibited by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM) at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA 2006 Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (5 group exhibitions 1998-2006)2005 Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX2002 Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR, (3 group exhibitions 1995-2002)2000 The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR1999 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY (3 group exhibitions 1995-1999)1994 Berlin & Bremen, Germany, “Paintings from America’s Heart”1993 Universi ty of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL 5th Annual Hendrix College Invitational, Conway, AR Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY The Collector Gallery, Washington, D.C. Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV1992 Arts & Science Ctr. of S.E. Arkansas1988 Art 54 Gallery/The Wright Gallery, New York, NY Center Gallery, Holt McPherson Center, High Point, NC Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC 11th Annual United States Print & Drawing Exhibition 1987-88 Film Selection: “End of the Line”1987 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Arkansas Artists Registry Small Works Annual, Jonesboro, AR Mona Berman Fine Arts, New Haven, CT Arkansas Artists Registry, AARt Annual, Little Rock, AR Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN 1986 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1985 Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago, IL 16th Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, San Marcos, TX Artsource L.A., Los Angeles, CA Southern Contemporary Art Invitational, Jacksonville, AL 8th Annual Hot Springs Fine Art Center Annual, Hot Springs, AR 24th Delta Annual, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

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