Shannon Mcconnell

Shannon Mcconnell is an artist and musician based in Seattle, Wa. His interactive scenes of transfigurative personages integrate speculative situations with a metaphysical animism, exposing psychological introspections reflecting the human condition. Arbitrary improvisations through an irreverent alienation of modern life, mutate in a rapidly developing Northwest environment.

As a musician he was a founding member of The Fall-Outs, The Pulses, performed with Billy Childish, The Intelligence, Night Kings, El Vez, and his own solo recording projects.

"...he combines a raw, punk aesthetic with technical prowess in paintings and drawings that always seem to be in the process of becoming something else. Characters shaped like raw meat morph into their surroundings, which are often wild, unruly pseudo-landscapes of earthy color and rough form which sparks a violent visual storm made up of inner and outer realities." - Suzanne Beal ART LTD magazine July/August 2015 issue

"Shannon Mcconnell's energetic painted figuration has one foot in the late 19th century and the other in the future. Practical yet skeptical and Bohemian, slightly morbid yet still open and optimistic, the figure is broken and revealed, dissembled and reordered; these twisted and open figures retain, in their momentary pain and confusion, a dignity and purpose: the experience of living in human flesh and bone." - Chris Ashley artist/curator SomeWalls, Oakland, Ca. Fall/2011

"...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..." - Robert Yoder artist/curator, Season, Seattle, Wa. Fall/2011

CV - Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

June 24, 2022 - Jan 7, 2023 - I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I? (DE)FRAMING IDENTITY AND THE BODY, group exhibit at UMOCA, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2017 - THE ROSE I LEFT BEHIND ME with Calvin Ross, group show at SEASON, Seattle, Wa. Summer exhibit

2017 - GOODMORNING DRAWINGS with Sharon Butler, group show at SEASON, Seattle, Wa. Spring exhibit

2016 - CARS IN A CIRCLE with Andy Heck Boyd, group show at SEASON, Seattle, Wa. Winter exhibit

2012 - NOTHING AND NO THING with Bathaus, group show at SEASON, Seattle, Wa. Fall exhibit

2011 - FOREVER AND NEVER, ONE MORE TIME with Elizabeth Kley, at SEASON, Seattle, Wa. Fall exhibit

Side projects: Night Kings, Invisible Men, The Outcasts, The Seperates. Performed with Billy Childish, The Intelligence, El Vez

Recipient of the Philanthropic and Education Society, F.U. of P.E.O. Scholarship for Art - 1983

9thAnnual Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Art Award Winner - 1982 (my painting was in the collection of Washington Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, and was displayed at the "Imagination Celebration", Seattle Center - 1982, and at the Western Washington Art Fair - 1982)