Kelly Connole’s new installation “Where the Sky Meets the Earth” suggests a world both familiar and strange, a world both fabled and real.  A warren of rabbits sits.  Thirty-eight larger-than-life ceramic rabbits, that is.  And upon their backs fall the shadows of crows passing overhead.  Time passes.  Time stands still.  At first glance the rabbits appear uniform, but upon closer scrutiny they are quite different and unique.  These “metaphors for human beings,” explains the artist, “represent the weight of the earth through their voluptuous bodies and their proximity to the soil underfoot.”  With their human-like appendages, postures, and expressions, these anthropomorphic rabbits are part of a story that Connole partially narrates (each of the thirty-eight rabbits corresponds roughly to a years in her life) but leaves open for the viewer to ultimately complete.   

Connole, who comes from a family of storytellers, is an assistant professor of art at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.  Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial Exhibition at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and at the Contemporary Crafts Museum in Portland, Oregon.

This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Additional support is provided by Carleton College's Faculty Development Funds including the Hewlett Presidential Fellowship and the Class of '49 Fellowship.

All events are free and open to the public.

Christensen Center Art Gallery
22nd Ave. at 7 ½ Street
Minneapolis, MN  55454
612-330-1524

Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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