Fingers That Touch The Sky

May 17-June 28, 2015

SEASON is proud to present FINGERS THAT TOUCH THE SKY, a show of paintings and drawings by Shannon McConnell, a visual artist and musician living in Seattle.  His oil paintings of characters in transfiguration blend a fantasy situation with garage punk animism.  As a musician, Shannon was a member of The Fall-Outs, The Pulses and has worked with The Outcasts and El Vez.  His paintings have been shown along the West Coast as well as in Prague, Czech Republic.  This is Shannon’s second show with the gallery.

I know how to turn the cameras off and make it so no one will see.

I can mute the microphones and everything posted will fall, this record will end.

I gotta find a way to get their attention and make them understand.  Desley is my only chance and he’s probably not Desley anymore.  He’s behind the bar bartending and ignoring me.  He’s gone like the others.  He sees what he thinks he wants to see and listens to what he has already heard.  I have a story about what happened but no one listens.

Memories are so fragile to begin with, I want to keep this one.

Shannon Mcconnell, Fuckhead, 2015, oil on cardboard, 12 X 12 inches.

Shannon Mcconnell, Schitzo, 2015, oil on cardboard, 12 X 12 inches.

 

Shannon Mcconnell, Beep, 2015, charcoal on paper, 11 X 8.5 inches.

 

Shannon Mcconnell, Resister, 2015, charcoal on paper, 11 X 8.5 inches.

 

FOREVER AND NEVER, ONE MORE TIME

Works by Elisabeth Kley and Shannon Mcconnell 

Winter 2011

Shannon Mcconnell's paintings are also otherworldly. His portraits and landscapes combine elements of arbitrary transfiguration with a garage punk aesthetic nod to the Northwest School. Applications of thin glazes over an improvised monoprint on paper or canvas produce uncommon vistas into a somewhat common land. These locations suggest desolate sci-fi environments filled with the diffused light characteristic of the Skagit Valley, while his portraits fracture into a grotesque awareness of Cubism. Shannon Mcconnell is an artist and musician living in Seattle Washington. His most recent solo show was at Galerie Blacklist in Prague, Czech Republic. He has shown at various venues across the Northwest and SEASON is honored to show a collection of all new paintings for this exhibition.

Shannon Mcconnell, Untitled (Figure), 2011, oil and acrylic on folded and sanded paper, 18 x 12 inches, $1200 framed.

 Shannon Mcconnell, The Weathervane, 2011, oil and collage on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, $2200.

Catalog available with essay by Chris Ashley, director at Some Walls, Oakland, California.

CD included with images from the show plus resumes for the artists, $8.00 (plus 1.75 s&h)

Artist website: www.shannonmcconnell.com