Selected Available Works Please click on an image for a larger version

Encasing Innocence, 2007 Acrylic and graphite on wood panel 24 x 16 x 2 inches

I Feel For You, 2007 Mixed media; 20 x 8 x 6 inches

Fading to Brown, 2008 Embroidery hoop, lace and mixed media; 19 x 12 x 7 inches

So Long (shedding skin), 2008 Mixed media; 12 x 15 x 10 inches

Michael G. McConnell
Biography

Born
1977    Garden City, MI

Education
1999    BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
2008     Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery,
                      San Francisco, CA
2008     you can't make them stay, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006    not out of the woods yet, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003     When Things Surface, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001     Introductions 2001, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2008     Michael McConnell: Paintings, Drawings, & Sculpture,
                     Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
2007    New Works, TAG Gallery, Nashville, TN
2006     Delayed Reaction, TAG Gallery, Nashville, TN
2006    not out of the woods yet, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003     When Things Surface, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002     Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, OH
2001     Introductions 2001, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999     Biting the Bullet: Recent Assemblages and Prints,
                     Beaton Gallery, Columbus, OH
1997     Lost and Found: Recent Paintings, Assemblages and Drawings,
                     Planet Pet, Columbus, OH

Group Exhibitions

2010    7 from the bay, Marji Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
2009    Natural Blunders, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2008    Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper, Center for
                     Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
              Draw Too: A Drawing Show In 4 Parts, Soo Visual Arts
                     Center, Minneapolis, MN
              Hare and the Hounds, BlueSpace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              If These Walls Could Talk, Reeves Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Cathedral Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ
2007    Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, San Francisco, CA
              On the 13th Day, Reaves Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Dollar Bill Project, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Group Exhibition, Michelle O’Connor Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006     California Dreamin’, diRosa Preserve, Napa, CA
              Bedtime Stories, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Don’t Call Me Fluffy, ARSpace, San Francisco, CA
2005     Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
              Paper!Awesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              What Did Puck Say? Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
2004    Hard Candy, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2001      Introductions South, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2000     Members Show, City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              How We Breathe, Breathing Spaces Art Collective, Emeryville, CA
              Printmakers at City Art, City Art Cooperative Gallery,
                     San Francisco, CA
              Personal Expressions: 3 Perspectives on Identity and
                     Representation, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
              Member Show, City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Local Artists, Adobe Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
1999     San Francisco’s Queer Youth Special Exhibition at the GLBT Conference,
                     Oakland Marriott Exhibition Hall, Oakland, CA
              Best of Senior Thesis Exhibit: Selected Works, Joseph Canzani
                     Center, Columbus, OH
              CCAD Annual Student Exhibition, Joseph Canzani Center,
                     Columbus, OH
              Firexit 7, McKinely Warehouse Space, Columbus, OH
1998     Small works: Selected Paintings, Hammond Hawkins Gallery,                      Columbus, OH
              Art Crawl ’98: Recent Works, German Village Society, Columbus, OH
              Firexit 3, Featured Artist, McKinely Warehouse Space, Columbus, OH
              CCAD Annual Student Exhibition, Joseph Canzani Center,
                     Columbus, OH

Bibliography

New American Paintings: Juried Exhibitions-in-Print, No. 79, 2008
Nashville Scene, “One Thing Leads to Another”, by David Maddox,
                     November 23, 2006
The Tennessean, “A Strong Reaction”, by Jonathan Marx, November 3, 2006
Artweek, “Partially Told Stories”, by Kristin Palm, May 2006
“ReGeneration: Telling Stories from Our Twenties”, Jennifer Karlin and
                     Amelia Borofsky, 2003
Hall, Jacqueline, “Six New Faces Show Promise,” The Arts, The
                     Columbus Dispatch, 7 July, 2002.
Crump, Anne, “Ex Files,” The San Francisco Examiner, 10 July, 2001.

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