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In my element surrounded by David Salle paintings at Skarstedt Gallery NYC, 2019 |
Artist, Flawed Paradoxical Humanitas Naturalis
Milt Connors was born in Troy, New York. His work seeks metaphysical, psychological and spiritual connections drawing on reinvented subjects that reflect the artist's first-hand lived experience, a reality encompassing past and present. An underlying existence that can force one into a continuous state of banal conformity; adapting to constructed/conditional expectations. His art includes references to common subjects/people, places, their emptiness, their entrapments. Art as a proven viable, subversive escape route from the material, elemental world we may feel confined, and a larger human search for that elusive something more.
Transcending these seemingly mundane surroundings and perceived shortcomings has been a consistent underlying motivation with the belief that art can deepen our level of consciousness, especially when experienced in an open-ended state of contemplation and reverie. His work often links mysticism to existentialism exploring spiritual themes that are familiar yet unfamiliar, seen yet unseen, benevolent yet malevolent. Subjects that are polemic and paradoxical, yet inherently inseparable. Artworks that have personal, idiosyncratic, emotional authenticity and individual experience.
His current work is focused on "Adelphinia" an on-going fictional project of speculative futurism that envisions a transhuman epoch in a post-technological singularity and a homo sapiens struggling to survive extinction. He lives and works in upstate N.Y.
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Recent Exhibitions (2024-2026)
Past Exhibitions (1998-2024)
Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer in Art/Art History