SheWired Featured Artist: Kelli Connell, Photographer

As a site that features entertainment and news geared toward the lesbian community at large we are committed to highlighting artists, musicians and craftspeople in the community. We’d like to introduce you to photographer Kelli Connell.

Kelli Connell’s body of work entitled Double Life has been widely received and included in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography and The Dallas Museum of Art. Connell’s first monograph entitled Kelli Connell: Double Life was published by DECODE Books in the Fall of 2011. Other recent publications include Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography (The Monacelli Press), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon) and Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture).

Connell’s upcoming shows:

January - February:  Solo Exhibition, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
February - March:  Solo Exhibition, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
May - June: Solo Exhibition, Gallery 339, Philadelphia

Check out some of her work below, and be sure to visit Kelli Connell’s website for more information.

The Space Between, 2002

Brickhaud Café, 2002

Kitchen Tension, 2002

Convertible Kiss, 2002

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Windowsill, 2006

Carnival, 2006

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The Valley, 2006

Reverie, 2006

This Morning, 2008

Sweetwater, 2008

Ponder, 2008

Head to Head, 2008

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