Annika Connor

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Annika Connor (Painter)

Conjuring extraordinary scenes of visual decadence, Annika Connor’s paintings reflect her continued fascination with moments of extreme beauty in our contemporary world.

In shimmering, radiant jewel-tones, her watercolors invite the viewer into everyday but exceptional encounters – through sun-dappled forests, past daffodil-strewn fields, across a neighbor’s deserted yard and into a maze of rococo interiors. Her compositions present the complex dichotomy of the nature morte or vanitas: reinforcing the transience of beauty and life, and simultaneously, promising to capture it for the viewer forever.

In 2002, Annika Connor received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied painting and philosophy. Since then, Connor has worked professionally as a painter in New York and London and participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. Her paintings are included in collections in Canada, England, France, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Spain, U.S. and the West Indies.

Reviews and publication of her work have appeared in Art Papers Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing Newspaper, C-Heads Magazine, and in many other Internet and local publications.

Annika Connor is Swedish-American; she currently resides in Manhattan where she maintains an active studio.

In addition to her work in the studio, Annika is also heavily involved in sustaining the art community in which she creates.

As a supporter of the art she admires, Annika is a Young Fellow of the Frick Collection, on the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council & Acquisitions Committee, The Roundtable Committee of the National Arts Club, and is a member of: the National Arts Club, Screen Actor’s Guild, New York Film Society, Emerging Leaders of the New York Arts, Arts & Business Council, and the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Annika also instructs art and is a professor of watercolor painting at Sessions College for Professional Design.

Furthermore, Annika is the Owner/President of AI Productions, an emerging corporation whose mission is to serve the artistic community by facilitating the presence and publication of young talented artists and educating the public about their work. To learn more about AI Productions, Inc. please visit www.aiproductions.org.

Annika’s next exhibit is starting this weekend, Friday, April 23rd through Friday, May 14th in New York City.

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