Living with Modernism: Artist Talk

Included with museum admission. Members are free.

Doors open promptly at 6:30 PM. Talk starts at 7:00 PM

Artist Kelli Connell, Allison Peters Quinn, EAM Executive Director & Chief Curator, and Gregory Harris, Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) lead the group through the exhibition. Then the panel shares their separate processes in making the exhibition and answer questions from the audience.

Image: Kelli Connell, Betsy, Lake Ediza, 2015, archival inkjet print, 40 x 50 inches. Collection of the High Museum (Atlanta).

Kelli Connell (b. 1974) is a photographer based in Chicago. Through her images, she addresses issues of sexuality, identity, and self-perception. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture and Center for Creative Photography, March 2024), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography.

Portrait of Kelli Connell by Natalie Krick.

The exhibition and program are made possible by support from Teiger Foundation and Illinois Arts Council.