ARTWORK - CONTEMPORARY
KAREN CONNELL
ANYWHERE BUT HERE
Anywhere but Here, Scene 2
Circa 2000
Edition of 5
C-print photograph mounted behind Plexiglas
48 x 72 inches
#KC001006
The desire to establish a point of view and the frustration of that desire are the subjects of Karen Connell's Anywhere but Here, a series of idealized seascapes. Using acetate, vacuum-formed plastic, colored lights, and a variety of commercially printed "sky" backdrops, Connell created tabletop dioramas of nearly featureless seascapes that she then photographed with a macrolens and printed as large-scale Cibachromes. Her saturated images invite a reverie, but in actuality offer only a simulation. This series was included as part of The Sea & The Sky, an exhibition curated by Patrick Murphy and Richard Torchia in 2000 at Beaver College Art Gallery in Glenside, Pennsylvania and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. This exhibition also included works by such well known artists as Vija Celmins, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Nesbit, Gerhard Richter and Wolfgang Tillmans.
