Andréa Keys Connell: Pattern Mapping
On view through November 29, 2025
Blowing Rock Art & History Museum
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Website: https://www.blowingrockmuseum.org
At the heart of Andréa Keys Connell’s work is a question: how can the things we make help us hold time, memory, and care? Her ceramic sculptures—often fragmented, patterned, and emotionally charged—explore what it means to endure, to remember, and to repair.
Connell’s figures do not always appear whole. Limbs are stretched or stilled, faces are hidden, and bodies lean forward into uncertain space. Yet each one carries a quiet sense of presence—something tender, unresolved, and deeply human. They feel at once familiar and strange, comforting and unsettling.
[Image: Andréa Keys Connell, Plaaaaaaaid, 2023, clay and underglaze. 32 in. x 20 in. x 18 in. Courtesy of the artist.]
