Kim MacConnel

Career

Exhibitions

• Collection Applied Design in 1976 was MacConnel's first solo exhibition and was also his big break back in the states. A book, Collection Applied Design, which he had found in China Town a few years before, inspired the exhibition. This book was pages of clip art and logos put together randomly, in no certain order, and without an index, which inspired his series of works, "10 Items or Less" which he put into the show.
• Age of Plastic was his next big exhibition which he added more of the sculpture aspect of his work. He had been collecting beach items that had washed up on shore for two decades and finally decided how he wanted to utilize them. He used them into a series of works titled "Trashy Beach Clowns" where he used his found objects and transformed them into clown figures.
• Another well recognized series of works that is more recent is "Woman with Mirror" in 2007. In this series he went back to his original medium of painting with acrylics. Like Picasso had used African art as the subject of his work and added backgrounds of pattern, he would look at those backgrounds and take out the subject matter.
• Collection Applied Design, A Kim MacConnel Retrospective, is his most recent exhibition, which came out this year and includes the last four decades of his work. He is getting a lot of publicity with this exhibition and through it is really making his name and art better known.

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