Chuck Connelly: Tribeca's Midnight Parade — When Art Runs Wild centers on Animals in the Street (1994), a large painting created when Connelly was living on Franklin Street in Tribeca, in which neighborhood figures take on animal identities — a judge becomes a lion in a trench coat, the artist himself appears as a horse quietly observing from the side. Rich with movement, wit, and urban tension, the work captures Tribeca during a period when the neighborhood felt freer and more intimately tied to its artistic community. The exhibition presents this and related work in the very neighborhood that inspired it.
