Kelli Connell

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

Double Life documents the evolving relationship between two women. By combining multiple negatives of the same model, Connell uses digital imaging techniques to create constructed realities.

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Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with artist Kelli Connell. The exhibition "Double Life" appears to document the evolving relationship between two women. By combining multiple negatives of the same model, Ms. Connell uses digital imaging techniques to create constructed realities. The model acts out various fictional scenarios, with the characters' body language and clothing changing in each image. The work represents Ms. Connell's investigation of identity, sexuality, and gender roles, as they shape and are expressed within intimate relationships.Through her photographs she addresses complex issues about visual rhetoric and the self.

"I've always seen identity as something that is very fluid and as such I usually shy away from labels. Still, a larger part of this work explores the nature of identity formation. In my own personal history, the process of questioning my sexuality was confounding, because the conventional categories, and even the need to categorize in the first place felt like...something being pushed on me. Perhaps this work is trying to figure out why we rely on categories and labels the way we do." - Kelli Connell

Opening: Saturday, February 18th with a reception and book-signing with the artist from 6:00 - 8:00

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 La Cienega B - Los Angeles
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 - 5:00
Admission Free

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