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Elmhurst Art Museum - Living With Modernism Show Documentation

Photo Documentation by Lizzie Moo

(This gallery features a selection of content from the session.)


Living With Modernism at the Elmhurst Art Museum

Kelli Connell

January 24 - April 26, 2026

Photographer Kelli Connell explores the psyche of human relationships and our connections to nature and architecture in this two-part exhibition—her largest presentation in Chicago to date. Across two bodies of work, Connell invites dialogue around queerness, power structures, shifting ecologies, and intimacy in the twenty-first century.

In the main galleries, Connell’s Pictures for Charis places her work in conversation with Edward Weston, pairing her photographs with original Weston prints and excerpts by Charis Wilson. Revisiting Weston’s sites across California and the American West, Connell re-photographs these landscapes through a contemporary feminist lens, bridging decades of ecological and social change.

In the McCormick House, Connell continues her long-running series Double Life (2002–), a digital project staging a fictional relationship between two women, both played by collaborator Kiba Jacobson. Commissioned to respond to the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Connell incorporates the house—and inspiration from former owner Isabella Gardner’s poetry—into new work that expands the ongoing narrative.

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Learn more about the Living With Modernism show curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director and Chief Curator and, featuring work by Kelli Connell and Edward Weston, here.

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