Significant Geometries, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, CT
Significant Geometries is an exhibition of artworks that utilize geometric shape as a vehicle to convey meaning in sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. The exhibiting artists are Helena Chastel, Paul D’Agostino, Will Holub, Seth David Rubin, Conny Goelz Schmitt, and Ellen Weider.
Conny Goelz Schmitt alludes to storytelling and knowledge in her ingenious sculptures created from vintage book parts. Ellen Weider’s paintings, distinctive in their mysterious arrangements of shape and color, suggest rarefied worlds and invite interpretation. Photographic works by Seth David Rubin transform landscape and explore points of view through arrangements of shaped reflections. Paul D’Agostino’s “Chromatic Alphabet” paintings consider language, text, narrative, and translation through precise arrangements of color and shape. Layered mixed media collages by Will Holub combine figural and abstract elements to discover interconnectedness amidst fragmentation and diversity. Sculptures by Helena Chastel are weighty or whimsical investigations of sacred geometry.
September 12 - October 13, 2024
WebsiteShow at Yellow Studio NY, May 2023
Intersection of Color featuring work by Conny Goelz Schmitt and Domenica Brockman
April 22 - June 3, 2023
Residency at Pouch Cove, May 2023
Artist residency
May 1 - 31, 2023Playing on the Wide Shore group show at James Baird Gallery
Labrador, New Foundland, Canada, June 2023
Intersect Palm Springs Art and Design Fair
Featuring work by Maeve D'Arcy, Conny Goelz-Schmitt, Susan English, Joanne Freeman, and Erin O'Brien
February 9 - 12, 2023
Solo Show 2022 at Hidell Brooks Gallery
Mass Cultural Council Fellowship 2022
Mass Cultural Council Grant
massculturalcouncil.org/Hidell brooks blog: Charlotte Home Design & Decor, Feb/Mar 2022
New Visionary Magazine, January 2022
The American Scholar Interview. August 23, 2021
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship 2020
Fellowship winner 2020
vermontstudiocenter.org/Boston Globe Interview. Saturday, March 7th, 2020
Dear So-and-So, WBUR News, the Artery
PRISMATIC REDUX, GIN STONE AND CONNY GOELZ SCHMITT
Maud Morgan Arts, Chandler Gallery
June 24 to July 19
Reception: Thursday, June 27, 6 to 8 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, July 11, 6 to 7 pm
Gallery Hours: Weekdays 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
Preview on MaudMorganArts.orgNEVERENDING STORIES
Solo Exhibit in the Kingston Gallery Project Space
June 5 to June 30, 2019
Opening Reception on June 7th from 5 to 8pm
www.kingstongallery.com/exhibitions/201…NATIONAL PRIZE SHOW 2019
Juried show
May 14 to June 22nd, 2019
www.cambridgeart.org/2019-national-priz…SMALL SCULPTURES: BIG IMPACT STROHL ART CENTER / CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
Group Exhibit
June 23 – July 16, 2019
Public Reception: Sunday June 23rd 3-5pmYJContemporary Fine Art Gallery: Art & Design: A Conversation
Coastal Contemporary: Projective Planes with Topher Gent
Conny Goelz Schmitt has work in Projective Planes at Coastal Contemporary Gallery in 491 Thames Street, Newport, RI 02840. The exhibition runs from October 11 to November 5, 2018 with an opening reception on October 19th from 5 to 8pm.
Boston Voyager Interview
My work OVERSIGHT got a juror's choice award at the National Prize Show at CAA. Jurors: Michelle Grabner, School of Visual Art Chicago, Jessica Hong, ICA Boston and Jamillah James, ICA Los Angeles
Found my book shrine on the website of Marin MoCa!
APRIL 12-19, 2018 DigBoston, Franklin Einspruch, p18
Marine Museum of Contemporary Art
Interview with Ronnie Li: More Questions than Answers
Delicious Line Review by Franklin Einspruch
More Questions than Answers
My solo at Kingston Gallery in Boston is coming up very soon!
Keith Powers: Art that explores time
By Keith Powers / Correspondent
June 08. 2016 5:40PM
Art that explores time
We measure time in so many ways. One meaningful way is through objects: An heirloom evokes ancestors. A stack of letters recalls a friendship. An unused toy-box brings back a childhood.
Three artists exhibiting now in the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck take the hoarded past and revitalize it. “Time Matters: Three Explorations,” on view now through July 4, shows the wildly divergent approaches that Conny Goelz-Schmitt, Michele Fandel Bonner and Kathleen Gerdon Archer use to remember and transform.
Fabric creations by Michele Fandel Bonner, structures created from books by Conny Goelz-Schmitt and large polypropylene prints mounted under Plexiglas by Kathleen Gerdon Archer make the ‘Time Matters’ exhibit at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck in Gloucester. COURTESY PHOTO
Fabric creations by Michele Fandel Bonner, structures created from books by Conny Goelz-Schmitt and large polypropylene prints mounted under Plexiglas by Kathleen Gerdon Archer make the ‘Time Matters’ exhibit at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck in Gloucester. COURTESY PHOTO
If you go...WHAT: Time Matters: Three Explorations
WHERE: Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson St., Gloucester
WHEN: through July 4
ADMISSION: Free. Visit www.rockyneckartcolony.org or call 978-515-7004
We measure time in so many ways. One meaningful way is through objects: An heirloom evokes ancestors. A stack of letters recalls a friendship. An unused toy-box brings back a childhood.Three artists exhibiting now in the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck take the hoarded past and revitalize it. “Time Matters: Three Explorations,” on view now through July 4, shows the wildly divergent approaches that Conny Goelz-Schmitt, Michele Fandel Bonner and Kathleen Gerdon Archer use to remember and transform.
Archer shows about a dozen large, abstract photos, color close-ups in high-gloss. Polypropylene prints mounted under plexiglas, at first glance they show the remarkable details of some abstract frozen object. Turns out they are family relics, placed in the freezer and then photographed at close range until something interesting reveals itself to the artist. The photographs are strikingly alluring, bringing in the viewer with mystical energy.
Schmitt re-invents books. Spines torn, covers obscured, her remaindered literature becomes an anonymous architecture of unexplained ideas. The books, used simply for their texture and shape, become the medium. Some are disassembled into collage. Some are stacked and glued into totems, or arranged into assemblages. They no longer tell stories with words, but through soft colors and manipulated formations.
In Schmitt’s work, it’s interesting to find that the medium itself carries meaning. You could never claim that acrylic, or bronze, or oil or clay has meaning to itself — but of course they all become tools for art. But using old books as sculptural entities forces them into a muffled discourse — the materials take the artist’s intended shape, but also speak on their own as discarded signifiers.
Bonner’s compulsions become humorous. She collects: gloves, T-shirts, buttons, cherry pits, clothing labels, her own hair, even outdoor faucets. Her structures — what else to call a hanging garden of gloves, or globes made of faucets, buttons, or cherry pits? — take on the beauty of deliberate formation, but also carry the offbeat sensibility that comes with obsessions.
Bonner’s work has humor, but it is no joke. She is a fabric artist of great depth, and her use of found, recycled materials adds a second layer of understanding to the technical care that goes into this work.
Seeing an “animal hide” made of thousands of clothing labels not only brings a smile to your face, it makes you want to live that way — wasting nothing, thinking deeply, transforming the ordinary and overlooked into the magical.
“Time Matters” runs through July 4 at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson St., Gloucester. For more information visit www.rockyneckartcolony.org or call 978-515-7004.
Keith Powers covers music and the arts for GateHouse Media and WBUR’s ARTery. Follow @PowersKeith; email to keithmichaelpowers@gmail.com
Solo Show@ Wheelock College
Conny Goelz-Schmitt has her show "Out of Print" at the Towne Art Gallery at Wheelock College , 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 0221. The exhibition runs from September 12 to October 17 2015 with a gallery talk on October 1st rom 3 to 4pm.
Cate McQuaid
CONNY GOELZ-SCHMITT:UNCOVERED Books may be going the way of most printed matter, but they have powerful cultural resonance. Goelz-Schmitt reconstructs found volumes into assemblages. Using pages and exposed bindings as compositional elements, she highlights the materiality and wear or her sources. Through April 26. Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. 617-423-4113, www.kingstongallery.com
CATE McQUAID
Review for "Time Travelers" at CAA
"Working with old book covers, Conny Goelz-Schmitt builds captivating sculptures such as “Omnipotent Pink Antenna,” an abstract collage, all jutting angles, folds, and collisions, in materials that are fading, handled, and well-loved."- Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, October 14th, 2014
