Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016 | Page 32

Michael
Connors
Professor
UW–Madison Department of Art,
since 1998
Printmaking

16 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty

1996 Master of Fine Arts, UW–Madison
1994 Bachelor of Arts, UW–Madison
Recent achievements
2015 Contemporary American Print Makers, by E. Ashley Rooney,
Stephanie Standish, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
2015 Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay,
group show, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL;
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL; Wright Museum of
Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI; The A.D. Gallery, University of
North Carolina Pembroke
2015 Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response to the Bombing
of Al-Mutanabbi Street, group show, Iraq National Library and
Archive, Baghdad, Iraq; Herron Art Library, Indiana University–
Purdue University, Indianapolis
2014 & 2015 34th & 35th Mini Print International of Cadaqués, group
show, Barcelona, Spain; Galerie L’Etang d’Art, Bages, France;
Wingfield, England
2014 International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, group show,
Museum Chudomir, Bulgaria
2014 Fifth International Miniature Print Biennial, group show, Ottawa
School of Art, Ontario, Canada
2014 13th Lessedra World Art Print Annual, group show, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 Really BIG PRINTS!!, group show, University of Wisconsin–
Manitowoc; Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI; Hamilton
Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
2014 Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books (MIMB III), group show,
Bridges–SGC International Conference, San Francisco State
University; Morgan Conservatory Gallery, Cleveland
2013 Ossuary, group show, University of Tennessee Downtown
Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Artist’s statement
This work was influenced by my trip to Havana in the early summer
of 2015. I was there during the Havana Biennial and had an opportunity to speak with artists and see lots of contemporary Cuban Art.
Having grown up in an age during which Cuba was anathema from
the perspective of United States government policy, I wanted to make
as many people-to-people contacts as possible. My impressions of this
experience, in the context of some fifty years on the other side of the
veil that separates our two countries, is the basis for this work.
Work in the show
Michael Connors (American, b. 1949)
Misiles Desde Habanos (Missiles From Cigars), 2015
Printed and mixed media on paper with acrylic tubes
96 x 96 x 96 in.