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Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures

(dis)Placement

The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition will include the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations.

The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance – almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.

Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009.

Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their identity, behaviors and actions.

The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures will be on Saturday, May 22 at 8 pm. The evening includes an Artist Talk and light refreshments. Click here for more information.

Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties.