Kim MacConnel
KIM MACCONNEL was an influential artist in the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s. Working with design elements, Kim MacConnel's paintings have made frivolity a fine art. Taking cues from Picasso and the so-called “primitivists,” MacConnel has taken the primitive and made it relevant in different dialogues between cultures. MacConnel’s paintings may look as though influenced by the Cubists, which they are, but there is a deeper meaning below the surface based in the materials he uses, and the meeting place he creates through cross-cultural interactions.
Kim MacConnel is an artist that has worked in San Diego for the past 30 years and has recently retired as a professor of art from UCSD. Although MacConnel is a seminal figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the seventies, overall MacConnel’s oeuvre has surpassed being categorized. His sensibility and talent has created a unique language using color and composition. He persuades the viewer to appreciate the appeal and conceptual property of patterns and draws inspiration from such wide-ranging and multicultural resources as the textile arts of numerous world regions, found graphic images, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
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Quint Popup in Los Angeles
7 - 19 Feb 2023This month, Quint Gallery is heading to Los Angeles. From February 7-19, we're popping up at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica, exhibiting a selection of paintings, drawings,...Read more -
Kim MacConnel | Flotsam and Jetsam
Selections from the Beach Collection 1975-Present 11 Jun - 24 Jul 2022 ONE | LOGAN HEIGHTSONE is pleased to present selections from Kim MacConnel’s Beach Collection, an ongoing project since 1975. Over the last 37 years, MacConnel has been steadily gathering objects left behind and...Read more -
BOUNTEOUS | A Group Exhibition
26 Mar - 21 May 2022 Quint Gallery | 7655 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, LA JOLLA | 7722 GirardBOUNTEOUS, a group show, will take over both La Jolla locations (7655/7722 Girard Avenue) from March 26 through May 21. The exhibition will be a vibrant conversation between many of...Read more -
A Large Group of Small Artworks at 7722 Girard Avenue
11 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 LA JOLLA | 7722 GirardTo close out our 40th year, Quint Gallery is using the 7722 Girard Avenue gallery to show a large grouping of small works, including painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Doors...Read more -
Summer Group Show
31 Jul - 1 Sep 2021 Quint Gallery | 7655 Girard Avenue, La JollaQuint Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography, and collage, on view from July 31 - September 4, 2021. Adam Belt ● Nancy Blum ●...Read more -
Kim MacConnel | The Earl of Grey
30 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 LA JOLLA | 7722 GirardQuint Gallery’s ONE is pleased to announce the exhibition of a new painting by Kim MacConnel, titled The Earl of Grey. From MacConnel’s “ABRACADABRA” series, this enamel work retains the...Read more -
Group Exhibition
21 Sep - 23 Nov 2019 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeADAM BELT KELSEY BROOKES GENE DAVIS TOM DRISCOLL MANNY FARBER SPENCER FINCH THOMAS GLASSFORD KRISTJÁN GUDMUNDSSON GARY LANG JEAN LOWE KIM MACCONNEL RYAN MCGINNESS HELEN PASHGIANRead more -
Distant Light
A Group Exhibition of Black and White Work 7 Apr - 19 May 2018 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeAndrew Alcasid Michael James Armstrong Barry Bell Adam Belt Kelsey Brookes Gisela Colón Stephen P. Curry Kenneth Capps Mara De Luca Roman De Salvo Thomas Demello Peter Dreher Tom Driscoll...Read more -
Texture/Pattern
15 Jul - 26 Aug 2017 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeQuint Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition of painting, wall hangings, and sculpture. TEXTURE/PATTERN is a grouping of artworks composed of non-traditional materials or utilize pattern in...Read more -
Jean Lowe and Kim MacConnel | The Museum of Metropolitan Art
13 Aug - 8 Oct 2016 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeQuint Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative installation by San Diego artists Jean Lowe and Kim MacConnel. The installation will include wall paintings appropriated from Old Master and Impressionist...Read more -
Kim Macconnel | Black & White
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue 11 Apr - 2 May 2015Quint Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of BLACK & WHITE , the tenth solo exhibition by KIM MACCONNEL at Quint Gallery. BLACK & WHITE is an exhibition...Read more -
SUMMER SERIES / KIM MACCONNEL | 10 by 10
Quint Contemporary Art: 7547 Girard Avenue 10 - 25 Aug 2012Quint Contemporary Art (QCA) is pleased to announce a summer series of short exhibitions. A large portion of the gallery will be under renovation and we will be using a...Read more -
Kim Macconnel | Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels
Quint Contemporary Art: 7739 Drury Lane 1 Oct - 4 Dec 2010Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels , an exhibition to run in conjunction with MacConnel’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art...Read more -
Homing In | An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists
Quint Contemporary Art: 7739 Drury Lane 29 May - 11 Jul 2009The work of San Diego’s top tier contemporary artists hasn’t been seen in the same place at the same time since 1985, when the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art...Read more -
SHOW DOWN | Group Exhibition
Quint Contemporary Art: 7739 Drury Lane 20 Jun - 19 Jul 2008Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present SHOW DOWN. The exhibition will open on June 20th with a reception from from 6 - 8 p.m. and will be on view...Read more -
Kim MacConnel | Woman With Mirror
Quint Contemporary Art: 7739 Fay Avenue 19 Oct - 17 Nov 2007Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Kim MacConnel. There will be a public reception on October 19th from 6 to 8 pm. The...Read more -
Kim Macconnel| New Paintings
27 Feb - 27 Mar 2004 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeAs one of the key figures of the West Coast Pattern and Decoration movement, Kim MacConnel uses a wide variety of media, from fabric to found objects to painting, to...Read more -
Kim Macconnel | If You Study This Work, You Will Benefit
18 Oct - 23 Nov 2002 Quint Gallery | 5171 Santa FeKim MacConnel’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery features scenes photographed during the artist’s trip to China. This series furthers the artist’s interest in the visual fabric of other cultures....Read more