Connor Tingley's "Grey Area" Series
Ori Gallery x Scope 2025
Ori Gallery Illuminates Scope Art Fair During Miami Art Week (Connor Tingley unveils "NUN" series)
Ori Spotlight
Connor Tingley
Jewish (Rabbi), 2025
Oil on Panel
76.8 H x 63.6 W In
Connor Tingley’s Nun Series is a striking exploration of restraint, revelation, and the unseen tensions beneath spiritual devotion. Working through layered textures, raw gesture, and a palette that oscillates between stark minimalism and visceral intensity, Tingley reinterprets the traditional icon of the nun as a symbol of both discipline and inner upheaval. These works become psychological portraits—figures suspended between concealment and exposure, silence and eruption.
Each piece in the series carries the imprint of Tingley’s signature process: an unfiltered physicality that embraces imperfection, abrasion, and the uncontrolled moment. What emerges is a visual language that feels at once ancient and contemporary, suggesting the weight of centuries of ritual while speaking directly to the emotional complexities of modern identity.
Featured Artist
Connor Tingley (1993)
Guided by an early immersion in both fine art and industrial design, Tingley developed a visual language that embraces imperfection, spontaneity, and the physical act of creation. His pieces often feel unearthed rather than made, carrying a sense of timelessness while remaining unmistakably modern.
FAIRS
Ori Gallery x Scope
During Miami Art Week 2025, Ori Gallery made a vibrant impression at the SCOPE Art Show in Miami Beach, one of the most dynamic international contemporary art fairs held December 2–7.
Ori Gallery presented a curated selection of works that reflect its commitment to bold, thought-provoking art. Central to its booth was Connor Tingley’s ongoing Nun Series—a body of oil on panel works that explore themes of spiritual discipline, interior tension, and psychological presence.
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Art Inspiration
Christopher Makos (b. 1948, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States) contact sheets reveal the beauty of process over perfection. Rather than isolating a single “finished” image, they capture tension, intuition, and becoming—marked by instinctive edits that collapse the distance between artist and subject. A study in how identity is constructed frame by frame.
