Philadelphia-based Expressionist painter Chuck Connelly opened the first museum show of his impressive career on Sept. 27 at The Andy Warhol Museum as a part of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial. The exhibition is titled "Chuck Connelly: My America," and features work from the beginning of Connelly's career to now.
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The Warhol Museum writes that Connelly's "penchant for the surreal and fantastic have remained constant" throughout his career, which provides a thread for viewers to follow through the exhibition. In an essay about Connelly's work, art historian Robert C. Morgan writes: "There is rapture in these paintings. Their sophistication goes beyond ordinary language and is impossible to discern through art language...Connelly is a true original—an artist who can only paint what he knows through the honesty of what he perceives and imagines."
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"Chuck Connelly: My America" shows through Jan. 4. For more information, see The Andy Warhol Museum exhibition page.
