Pittsburgh native makes comeback at The Warhol
Through Jan. 4
‘Chuck Connelly: My America’
Acclaimed artist and Pittsburgh native Chuck Connelly is making his comeback in style with an exhibit of his Neo-Expressionist-style painting at the Andy Warhol Museum. The exhibit, “Chuck Connelly: My America,” runs through Jan. 4, 2015.
Trained at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Connelly became a key figure among the New York-based Neo-expressionist painters in the ’80s. Since his early successes, he has been portrayed in film by Martin Scorcese (Nick Nolte’s character in “New York Stories” was based on Connelly) and was the subject of a 2008 HBO documentary, “The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale,” which captured his discipline and commitment to his craft and won an Emmy Award in 2009 for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming.
“Chuck Connelly: My America” marks Connelly’s first solo museum show and features works from his beginning years in New York to the present day. Connelly’s work will be Warhol’s contribution to the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial.
For more information on the exhibit, visit Www.warhol.org.