Mike was recently featured on KQED’s Gallery Crawl (excerpt below)
“In July 2006, Gallery Crawl found two adjoining galleries hidden on the rather unassuming Clementina Street in SOMA: Braunstein/Quay Gallery and Hosfelt Gallery. Although they share an address, the two galleries differ in atmosphere as well as art.
View the July 2006 episode of Gallery Crawl featuring Braunstein/Quay Gallery and Hosfelt Gallery on San Francisco’s Clementina Street. (Running Time: 11:47)”
KQED link for the video. (Note: external link, may or may not work)
August 7th, 2006
It’s showtime!
not out of the woods yet
July 6 - August 5, 2006
Reception: July 8, 2006 3-5 PM
Braunstein/Quay Gallery
Inspired by language and fairytales, Michael McConnell creates ominous spaces that hover between youth and maturity, skepticism and failure. Working with graphite and acrylic, the sketched lines of pencil merge with the subdued color palate to produce paintings with a nostalgic quality.
Hmmm. Color palate? or Color palette? Come see for yourself…
Braunstein/Quay Gallery: 430 Clementina, SF, CA 94103
Hours: Tues-Sat, 11 AM - 5:30 PM
June 15th, 2006
Here is Mike at his opening reception, looking belligerent in his uniform that he never changes out of.
My camera stinks.
Anyway. Check out the show, which runs till March 19th. If you missed the opening reception, you can still attend the closing reception, where you can covet all the pieces you want to buy that are already sold. Mike will probably be there, wearing the same, exact outfit.
March 10th, 2006
New work by Kerri Lee Johnson, Michael McConnell, and Jennie Ottinger
Curated by Jill Manthei
Exhibition Dates: March 9-19, 2006
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 9, 7-10 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, March 19, 3-7 pm
Gallery Hours: March 11, 12, 18, 1-4 pm and by appointment
Arspace presents “Don’t Call Me Fluffy”, an exhibition of new work by three Bay Area artists who share an affinity for animals. In drawings, paintings, and a site-specific wall piece, Kerri Lee Johnson, Michael McConnell, and Jennie Ottinger use lighthearted imagery to explore weightier issues of fear, power and identity.
Jennie Ottinger reinterprets traditional butcher shop diagrams and considers what the animals might be thinking. Removed from their original instructional context, the figures are both gruesome and endearing.
Michael McConnell uses fairytale-like imagery to introduce more sophisticated thoughts. His characters exist in an ominous space somewhere between childhood and maturity.
Kerri Lee Johnson explores the dynamic of predator and prey in drawings that have a deceptive innocence. Children and animals play interchanging roles in strangely ambiguous settings.
arspace
1286 Folsom St. (at 9th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.621.4438
arspace@arspace.org
February 27th, 2006
Mike is having a busy month! Check out Partially Told Stories at Space 743 from Feb 24th through March 25th.
Partially Told Stories
February 24th - March 25th
Narrative works by 6 San Francisco artists curated by Mike
Terry Cunniff, John Herschend, Danielle Lawrence, Brian McDonald, Jennie Ottinger and Weston Teruya
Opening Reception: Friday Feb 24th, 6 to 8 pm
Where: Space 743, 743 Harrison Street, San Francisco
The Clay Studio
Also…
You can catch Mike at the Southern Exposure’s 6th Annual Monster Drawing Rally on February 24th, It’s a drawing rally; 25 artists an hour, for 4 hours! Crazy shiznit! Watch Mike do his crazy, death-defying drawing stunts from 9 to 10 pm.
Southern Exposure
February 13th, 2006
And all I want is a hug.
February 8th, 2006
Mike was a featured artist at My Trick Pony in SF on Saturday, February 4.
February 8th, 2006
Mike’s miserable so-called art was actually publicly displayed at some group show this past summer (2005) at the Heidi Cho Gallery. Imagine that. For you fools who missed it, here is a link to the work:
The kind of stuff that Mike is trying to pass off as “NEW WORK”
December 1st, 2005
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