ONE Art Space in Tribeca is hosting "Tribeca’s Midnight Parade — When Art Runs Wild," a solo exhibition of paintings by Chuck Connelly. Co-curated by Adrienne Connelly and MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, the show features the 1994 painting "Animals in the Street," which depicts Tribeca figures as animal archetypes, including a lion judge and the artist as a horse. The private opening drew a celebrity guest list including Princess Tina Radziwill, orchestrated by PR powerhouse Norah Lawlor.
The exhibition matters because it reasserts Chuck Connelly's legacy as a distinctive figurative painter whose work captures a bygone era of downtown New York intimacy and creative community. By presenting his expressive, character-driven paintings in the very neighborhood that inspired them, the show offers a timely reintroduction of an artist whose influence continues to resonate through New York's cultural fabric, bridging past and present artistic experimentation.