For twenty years, Stott has painted the same objects — typewriters, telephones, books, clocks — and over these past two decades, the intent behind the paintings remains as authentic as ever. The artist paints these vintage and antique objects in clear, precise, balanced compositions. In so doing, he creates a sense of calm, clarity, and understanding which is a counter to the pervasive and overwhelming confusion, outrage, and anxiety of the contemporary moment. ____ In this new series of paintings, Connally is creating a painted history of the rich landscapes and botanical wonders of the Blackland Prairies of Texas. Citing Joan Mitchell as an important influence on her work, Connally employs exuberant, impassioned colors laid on her canvases in a pictorial strategy that teeters between the action painting of her abstract expressionist forebears and a more refined personal style that modulates the strokes and dabs that comprise her surfaces. Her layers of brushstroke read less as agitated ruptures and more like intuitive, sensual experiences rendered as prismatic atmospheres of color and tone. Rich, multi-layered surfaces of color morph, coalesce and scatter in quietly energetic rhythms that evoke the experience of being surrounded by nature.