On Thursday, March 13, at 6 pm, join artist Kelly McConnell for an artist talk about her current exhibition, What Calm!

In Kelly McConnell’s What Calm!, the artist invites the viewer into an experiential journal of her emotional and spiritual journey across a period of time, as expressed in a unique semiotics where mark functions as sign and color as symbol. Though quirky and personal to her, McConnell’s visual language often incorporates or alludes to Eastern spirituality and Greek mythology, as well as a type of coded and decidedly feminist “body language” in the presence of figural forms and isolated body parts in some of the work. What’s signified feels simultaneously personal and universal, intimate and archetypal, corporeal and cosmic, ephemeral and eternal. Meaning sometimes seems open and obvious and other times veiled. The artist’s struggle to maintain a sense of wholeness and equanimity in these troubling times, as an individual and as a part of the human collective, is both felt and observed.